ITCP Weekly Update December 11 – 15 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what IT Pros need to know In today’s issue Announcements Upcoming events Mailings Resources for IT Pros Did you know… Announcements IU Canvas Maintenance – December 16 On Saturday December 16, between 8am and 12pm EST, Instructure (Canvas) will… Read more »
Month: December 2023
Follow-up to Critical Vulnerability in Apache Struts
IT Professionals: The University Information Security Office (UISO) is aware of exploitation attempts in the wild using the recently published Apache Struts vulnerability. It is only a matter of time before attackers target IU systems. You must patch your systems immediately to prevent exploitation. Please upgrade Struts to versions 2.5.33, 6.3.0.2, or later. If you… Read more »
IU Canvas Maintenance – December 16
IT Professionals, This message is to notify you of a monthly maintenance event scheduled for the IU Canvas instance and the scheduled retirement of the Course Networking (CN Post) tool at IU. On Saturday December 16, between 8am and 12pm EST, Instructure (Canvas) will be performing a regularly scheduled monthly release in the IU Canvas… Read more »
Apple Office Hours – December 13 and 14
IT Professionals: Apple invites you to Office Hours on Wednesday, December 13, at 2pm ET or Thursday, December 14, at 10am ET. Each session will cover the same material and is being made available to all higher education clients; these are not exclusive to IU. This month Apple will provide an overview and tips for… Read more »
Notice of security concern with iOS wireless network settings
IT Professionals: The University Information Security Office would like to bring attention to a security concern associated with iOS (and to a very narrow extent, macOS): iOS devices with manually configured wireless network settings may be revealing the passphrase(s) of account(s) used to sign into those wireless networks to anyone able to use the devices…. Read more »
Notice of Critical Vulnerability in Apache Struts
IT Professionals: The University Information Security Office would like to bring to your attention the critical vulnerability CVE-2023-50164 within Apache Struts, an open-source Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. Attackers who successfully exploit this vulnerability can manipulate file upload parameters to potentially upload a malicious file that allows them to run remote code execution. Affected versions are Apache… Read more »
ITCP Weekly Update December 4 – 8
ITCP Weekly Update December 4 – 8 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what IT Pros need to know In today’s issue Announcements Upcoming events Mailings Resources for IT Pros Did you know… Announcements No new announcements Upcoming events Tuesday, December 12 IU Women in IT (IUWIT) – Candid Conversations for Caregivers… Read more »
Respondus LockDown Browser (managed) minimum version
IT Professionals, Starting January 1, 2024, at 12:00am ET, all versions of Respondus LockDown Browser for Windows and macOS that are older than 2.1.1.00 (released on June 2, 2023) will cease to function. Affected IT Pros can download the latest version from IUware (link restricted to IT Pros who use this software). This update only… Read more »
ITCP Weekly Update November 27 – Dec 1
ITCP Weekly Update November 27 – Dec 1 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what IT Pros need to know In today’s issue Announcements Upcoming events Mailings Resources for IT Pros Did you know… Announcements Kaltura Recording: INFOSHARE – IT Leadership Community Overview The recording for the infoshare on an overview of… Read more »