Computer Help Documents

The OSU Computer Helpdesk and other IT support groups at Oregon State have received numerous reports of a FRAUDULENT e-mail message with the following subject delivered to OSU e-mail addresses: ”Attention: Account user.” This fraudulent message is a targeted phishing attempt designed to deceive you into providing your username, password and e-mail information to deceitful individuals. [...]

I rebooted one of the Lync Front End servers due to spurious latency issues. This shouldn’t have caused any client issue but my off campus Lync client reported and network disconnect outage and required a restart of the client.

Blackboard is back up. – Lindy Foster Enterprise Computing Oregon State University 541-737-3805

OSU suffered another border router failure between 10:36 am and 10:38 am this morning. We are in the process of shutting down the faulty device and have failed all traffic over to the standby device. This should resolve the issue until the faulty hardware has been repaired.

Summary:  Within the last few days Oregon State Police have seen an increase in high end bicycle thefts around the Oregon State University campus.

Within the last few days Oregon State Police have seen an increase in high end bicycle thefts around the Oregon State University campus. All of these bicycle thefts were secured with a cable lock and all were during the day time. Some of the bikes are appearing on Social media sites for sale.

If you see your bike on one of these sites please do not make contact with the individual, call Oregon State Police.  It is recommended that when securing a bicycle that a U lock is used.

If you see a person on campus that looks suspicious, do not approach. Call the Oregon State Police, University Patrol Office at 541-737-3010.

If you have any questions please call the Non- Emergency Number 541-737-3010

 

Alert Category:  Public Safety Expiration Date:  Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:41am Active:  Active

Good Morning, The IS Server Support team will performing emergency maintenance on one of the Exchange servers tonight at 6pm to address remote management services issues on one of the three servers. We do not expect this maintenance to cause an outage, however users mailboxes who are associated to that server will see a two [...]

At approx. 1:20 a.m. this morning, one of our routers rebooted. The backup router took over shortly afterward. However, there was a disruption to internet connectivity. This morning’s incident affected all communication between OSU and the Internet for up to 15 minutes between 1:20 am and 1:35 am as well as affecting ResNet (both wired [...]

Notice of Unplanned Outage Today starting around 10:40 am lasting until approximately 11 am our authentication servers for the OSU_Secure wireless network and Enterprise VPN lost connection with its Active Directory server. This resulted in new connections to the OSU_Secure wireless network and Enterprise VPN for staff users being denied. The outage only affected users [...]

Primary Contact: Mike Akey, mike.akey@oregonstate.edu I will be moving some internal systems off of a network switch that needs replacement. This will result in a very brief blip in availability for the database that Maintain uses. Cutover at: 5pm Friday 17th.

Notice of Service Interruption We experienced a MySQL service interruption from 12:28-12:38 this afternoon. At 12:30 MySQL failed over to the secondary server and service availability was restored. The service took approximately 8 more minutes to become fully responsive due to heavy inbound traffic. During the failover applications connecting to the MySQL service failed resulting [...]

Primary Contact: Josh Zojonc, Josh.Zojonc@oregonstate.edu We will be bundling up three extremely minor well understood changes into a single maintenance action. The first change will be to deny non-secure SSL renegotiation, to address the vulnerability described in RFC 5746. This will not have an impact on legitimate users, nor will they notice any changes. The [...]

NERO, one of OSU’s Internet service providers, experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a node in Corvallis today between 10:25 and 10:45. This impacted the traffic of all customers connected to the Corvallis hub, including OSU. We are monitoring for any recurrence or change of targets and will remediate as soon as possible.