Information: GWDG Cloud Share: Merging of accounts with multiple e-mail addresses

Message-Id: 201601041355 Time: 04.01.2016, 1:55 p.m. Affected: Users of „GWDG Cloud Share“ with an Identity Management account Impact: Merging of user accounts From this week’s Wednesday on accounts with multiple e-mail addresses that hold several individual accounts in the service „GWDG Cloud Share“ will have their accounts merge automatically with the next login. This affects users who … Weiterlesen

Warning: Phishing Mails circulating

Message-Id: 201512211411 Time: 21.12.2015, 2:11 p.m. Affected: Users of University of Göttingen Impact: Logon credentials may get spied Currently emails are posted, which pretend to be send from GWDG or Göttingen University und which are prompting the recipients to enter there login credentials on a foreign website or to reveal such information in an answer to those emails. … Weiterlesen

Information: GWDG Cloud Share: eduroam login disabled, LDAP logins with e-mail alias now possible

Message-Id: 201512181832 Time: 18.12.2015, 6:32 p.m. Impact: GWDG Cloud Share Affected: „GWDG Cloud Share“ with an eduroam account has been disable, every e-mail alias can now be used for logging into the service together with the password of that account and still be mapped to the same account and its folders As previously announced login … Weiterlesen

Information: Opening times of the data centre around Christmas and New Year

Message-Id: 201512171430 Time: 24.12.2015 – 03.01.2016 Affected: Customers of GWDG Impact: Restricted opening times of the data centre and accessibility of the service hotline The data centre of the GWDG is closed from 24.12.2015 to 27.12.2015 and from 31.12.2015 to 03.01.2016. From 28.12.2015 to 30.12.2015 the computing centre is only opened from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. … Weiterlesen

Warning: printers are currently abused

Message-Id: 201512161600 Time: 16.12.2015, 16:00 Affected: Printers within the IP range of 134.76.0.0/16 Impact: Hundreds of pages are printed full of nonsense Currently printers in the University of Göttingen are attacked: A user „admin“ sends printjobs named „5MB.bin“ to many printers within the University of Göttingen. This file contains unprintable data. So the printer prints hundreds of pages full … Weiterlesen

Information: Restricting of UNIX-Mail service „mailer.gwdg.de“ or „mailer.mpg.de“ for general user operation

Message-Id: 201512120900 Time: 16.12.2015, 9:00 am Affected: Users of UNIX-Mail servers „mailer.gwdg.de“ or „mailer.mpg.de“ (not Exchange!) Impact: Gradual limitation of Sending E-mails Sending of e-mails through UNIX-Mail server „mailer.gwdg.de“ or „mailer.mpg.de“ for general user operations will be gradually limited. In the future, this SMTP-service will be exclusively available only for the registered users. The Exchange … Weiterlesen