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January 31, 2005
ITSS Training Classes for the Week of February 14, 2005
ITSS sent out the their list of classes being offered for the week of February 14, 2005. Included are the instructions for signing up and paying for those classes. It is recommended that not only EPs, but other staff attend regular classes in order to further familiarize themselves with the various applications they use in their work.
From ITSS:
Seats are still available for the following ITSS Technology Training classes the week of February 14 (click on links for course descriptions, locations, etc.):
* Sundial Tips & Tricks (ITS 051A) NEW COURSE, Tuesday, February 15, 1:30-4:30, $150
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/courselookup.html?keywords=ITS051
* Introduction to Flash (ITS 261A), Tuesday and Wednesday, February 15 and 16, 9:00-4:00, $500
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/courselookup.html?keywords=ITS261
* Word Power Techniques (ITS 319A), Wednesday, February 16, 1:00-4:30, $150
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/courselookup.html?keywords=ITS319
* Explore techport.stanford.edu (ITS 031A), Thursday, February 17, 9:00-12:00, no fee
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/courselookup.html?keywords=ITS030
* Web Design, Level 3: Designing a Web Site (ITS 293A), Thursday, February 17, 1:30-4:30, $100
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/courselookup.html?keywords=ITS293
* FileMaker Pro, Level 2 (ITS 471A), Thursday, February 17, 9:00-400, $275
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/courselookup.html?keywords=ITS471
* Introduction to Eudora: A Hands-On Experience (ITS 121A), Friday, February 18, 9:00-12:00, $150
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/courselookup.html?keywords=ITS121
STAP or Hospital Tuition Assistance funds may be used to cover any fees.
For information on other courses, go to http://techtraining.stanford.edu/courses.html.
For instructions on how to register, go to http://techtraining.stanford.edu/reg.html.
If you are interested in signing up for one or more of these courses, we advise you to register by Monday, February 7. Classes with low enrollments may be cancelled one week in advance.
Posted by dwicklun at 11:18 AM | Comments (0)
January 24, 2005
Big Fix to be installed on all SUL computers
Big Fix is a software solution for Internet-based attacks on PC's. SUL will be using Big Fix, which is administered by ITSS, in conjunction with our own setups of automated updates of Windows Update and Norton Antivirus. This redundancy will help us to avoid attacks like those we have suffered over the last 2 years.
You can download and install the software from
http://www.stanford.edu/services/bigfix/install.html.
Posted by dwicklun at 09:16 AM | Comments (0)
Wi-Fi Coming to California State Parks
The following abstract comes from Edupage, an Educause publication.
CALIFORNIA PARKS TO GO WIRELESS
Officials from California State Parks this week announced a partnership
with SBC Communications to bring Wi-Fi access to 85 of the state's
parks over the next six months. Wi-Fi access is already available in
the baseball stadium of the San Francisco Giants and in downtown San
Jose. The fist state park to have Wi-Fi access will be San Elijo State
Beach, near San Diego. Current customers of SBC will be able to access
the Wi-Fi service in the state parks for free; others will have to pay
$7.95 per day. According to a spokesperson from SBC, the revenue from
the service will be split between the company and the state. California
State Parks spokesman Roy Stearns said that access will largely be
limited to areas in and around visitors' centers and campgrounds.
Hiking trails, said Stearns, will not be part of the coverage area.
Reuters, 21 January 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7397115
Posted by dwicklun at 08:38 AM | Comments (0)
January 06, 2005
Symantec warns of new Trojan that affects XP
This is from the Symantec Website:
Symantec: Phel Trojan Horse Attacks Windows XP
Reprinted
From:
DEC 31, 2004 ARTICLE ID: 5167
by Linda Rosencrance
Security firm Symantec Corp. is warning users of a newly discovered Trojan horse named Phel -- an anagram of the word "help" -- that attacks Windows XP. The Trojan is capable of remotely controlling a user's system even if the latest Windows XP Service Pack, SP2, has been installed.
The Trojan, distributed as an HTML file, attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer's HTML Help Control component in all versions of Windows. The vulnerability was discovered in October.
Microsoft is actively investigating new public reports of a criminal attack, according to a Microsoft spokesperson.
For the exploit to succeed, an attacker would need to entice a user to visit a malicious Web site and then place the Trojan on the user's machine. If the Trojan executes successfully, potentially malicious software could be downloaded and run on the user's system, the spokesperson said.
Microsoft is working to forensically analyze the malicious code in Phel and will work with law enforcement agencies to identify and bring to justice those responsible for the malicious activity, he said.
"Microsoft is taking this vulnerability very seriously, and an update to correct the vulnerability is currently in development," the spokesperson said in an e-mail message. "We will release the security update when the development and testing process is complete, and the update is found to effectively correct the vulnerability."
Microsoft said customers in North America who think they may have been affected can receive help with security update issues or viruses at no charge by calling Product Support Services at 866-727-2338. International customers can receive the same level of support online at http://support.microsoft.com.
Posted by dwicklun at 04:01 PM | Comments (0)
DNS Servers temporarily having problems
All - This came out today from ITSS:
FYI,
171.64.7.55 and 171.64.7.77 are currently experiencing some issues with various off-campus sites, 171.64.7.99 seems to work fine. ITSS is aware of the issue and is currently working to resolve it.
-David Chait, ITSS
Posted by dwicklun at 03:38 PM | Comments (0)