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December 2017

Holiday Break

The Holidays are upon us! The university will be closed next week, with only skeleton crews working when and where needed.

Of course IT needs to keep running, so some of our OIT staff will be either working or on call. We appreciate the hard work and dedication of all OIT employees, including those working over the breaks.

Unless you've been told otherwise by your system administrators or TSCs, please remember to turn off your computers and printers over the break.  Not only will this save money and electricity, but it helps prevent attacks

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High Sierra Root Vulnerability Macs Under CNS-OIT Management

If you own a Mac, you have probably heard by now that Apple introduced a serious bug into High Sierra by which anybody could log into a Mac using 'root' as the username and no password, and get full access to the system.

If your Mac is under CNS-OIT management, then a workaround has been applied: a root password has been set on your machine. Additionally, owners of managed machines will receive an email reminding them to apply as soon as possible the security patch that fixes the root vulnerability.

As always, if you have questions or need help, please don'

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High Sierra Root Vulnerability: Known Issue Migrating From 10.13.0 to 10.13.1

If you own a Mac, you have probably heard by now that Apple introduced a serious bug into High Sierra by which anybody could log into a Mac using 'root' as the username and no password, and get full access to the system. You may have also heard that Apple released a patch to fix this vulnerability. But have you heard that the bug 'silently' reappears on systems that are subsequently upgraded from 10.13.0 to 10.13.1?

If you apply the security patch to

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