A recently disclosed vulnerability in the R programming language could provide attackers with a foothold to execute arbitrary commands on a system running an unpatched version of R. R is a language widely used at UVM by researchers for a variety of tasks, including statistical analysis and data visualization. This vulnerability has not yet been …
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Critical Outlook Vulnerability – Patch ASAP!
On March 14th, Microsoft disclosed a critical security vulnerability that affects Outlook email clients running on Windows. Microsoft has released an update to address this vulnerability as part of this month’s regular updates. ETS has made this update mandatory starting today, so Windows machines that normally receive updates from ETS will receive it right away. …
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Expansion of Duo Protections
Dear UVM Community, As we noted last month, a significant expansion of Duo multifactor authentication will begin on March 13, and will continue over the next few months in multiple phases. We are making this change because the protection of intellectual property as well as personally identifiable information including student records, personnel information, and research …
Protecting Your NetID Password
You’ve probably heard by now that UVM has been subject to a computer system intrusion that has the potential to result in the malicious use of UVM NetIDs and passwords. Here’s the crux of the announcement: The University has no indication that personally identifiable information has been accessed or compromised. Nonetheless, the University is taking …