Protection for Every Enterprise: How BlackBerry 10 Security Works
Get an IT-level review of BlackBerry® 10 Security, addressing data leakage protection, certified encryption, containerization and much more. read moremore…
PASS Infrastructure Maintenance
From May 21 through June 4, maintenance will be performed on the infrastructure supporting PASS. The work will be conducted during the daily, scheduled maintenance windows, from 5-7 a.m. Services should not be significantly affected during the maintenance. The performed maintenance will result in an upgrade for the PASS system on June 5. As a […]more…
Workflow Service Maintenance – 5/21/2013, 5AM to 7AM
On Tuesday morning, 5/21/13, during the normal maintenance window (5-7AM), AIS will be performing work on the Workflow service which will cause a brief outage of the service. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Scott Weaver (saw1). Thank you. Scott Weaver Manager of Information Services The Pennsylvania State University Information Technology Services […]more…
Resolved: TNS Website Secured Pages Not Available
The secured pages on the TNS website, www.tns.its.psu.edu, are currently available again. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused and thank you for your patience.more…
Resolved: Library Service Interruption, 5/21/13
This update has been postponed. An alert will be posted when a new date is determined.more…
DNS / DHCP Upgrade and Migration
During the overnight window of Thursday May 23rd – Friday May 24th, TNS will be undertaking an effort that will replace the current DNS and DHCP servers. Beginning at 11:00PM, the DNS servers will be replaced one at a time. During the course of the night, users may experience individual DNS servers that are unavailable, […]more…
Attack on Telenor was part of large cyberespionage operation with Indian origins, report says
A recent intrusion on the computer network of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor was the result of a large cyberespionage operation of Indian origin that for the past few years has targeted business, government and political organizations from different countries, according to researchers from security firm Norman Shark. read moremore…
Riddle: What’s the One Password You’ll NEVER Forget?
Last week during his keynote speech at the Interop IT conference, PayPal’s Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett pointed to a slide depicting a tombstone for passwords with the dates 1961-2013. According to Barrett, while passwords are still required for so many applications and services, they have simply outlived their usefulness. Barrett predicted that we […]more…
Blogger threatened with $1 billion suit for writing about allegedly predatory publisher
Jeffrey Beall, a US academic librarian who uses his Scholarly Open Access blog to write about scholarly publishers’ dubious practices, is being threatened with a $1 billion lawsuit by an Indian publishing group.more…
22 million user IDs may be in the hands of hackers, after Yahoo Japan security breach
The call has gone out to Yahoo Japan’s 200 million users to change their passwords, after the company warned that it suspected hackers had managed to access a file containing 22 million user IDs.more…
Inside the "PlugX" malware with SophosLabs – a fascinating journey into a malware factory…
Join SophosLabs Principal Researcher Gabor Szappanos as he takes you on a fascinating journey into the latest “product” from the PlugX malware factory.more…
Congress asks Google if and how it’s protecting privacy with Glass
The US Congress sent Google a letter listing eight specific privacy areas concerning Glass that legislators would like to know quite a bit more about. As would many of us, now that you mention it.more…
Microsoft Windows Kernel ‘Win32k.sys’ CVE-2013-1334 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.more…