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The first Friday evening/Saturday morning of each month is ITS' maintenance window to maintain and improve selected University services. This Friday, February 2, ITS will be performing work on NYUHome starting at 8:00pm and continuing until midnight.
While this service upgrade is underway, the following ITS services and systems will be unavailable:
For the latest information, visit the ITS Status page.
A new trojan horse virus known as Trojan.Peacomm and Storm Trojan is rapidly spreading. Symantec Security Response has seen a large increase in the number of infections of this Trojan as well as new versions that have additional capabilities. The Trojan horse arrives as an attachment to an email claiming to contain a video of one of several different recent news stories. To protect your computer, delete any suspicious messages without opening the attachment, and be sure to keep your virus definitions up to date.
The email itself will have no message body, but will have one of the following subject lines:
Symantec also strongly urges users to be cautious of any unsolicited email that contains attachments that claim to be legitimate or interesting. The technique of using interesting subject lines or attachment names in emails in order to distribute malicious code is known as "social engineering". This technique has been used by threat writers for many years and, unfortunately, is often successful against unprotected users. The usage of recent news events as part of the email is especially common among these techniques.
For more information about this and other virus threats, see the Symantec website.
Microsoft released three critical Windows patches on Jan. 9th that resolve multiple vulnerabilities. The patches address, amongst other issues, vulnerabilities in Excel, Outlook, and VML handling.
The vulnerabilities, if not patched, can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and compromise your computer.
These updates concern multiple versions of Windows including, but not limited to, Windows XP Professional SP2 and the Mac versions of the Office Suite. It is very important that you update your Windows operating system as soon as possible.
Download the latest updates here:
