GWDG – IT in der Wissenschaft
Since 22 May, the account portal at id.academiccloud.de has been available in a new design. The user interface is visually orientated towards the Academic Cloud and offers a modern, uniform appearance with a clear structure and improved usability.
The changeover [...]
With this operating message we ask the customers of the GWDG as well as their user groups to change their passwords immediately.
To change please use https://id.academiccloud.de.
(Note: for security reasons the web address is not available as a link, [...]
On 09/28/2023, a security incident was detected on GWDG systems by internal security systems. This incident is being investigated in detail by the GWDG. Authorities and external security experts have also been informed and are consulted where necessary. So far, [...]
Yesterday, not only a serious vulnerability in AMD’s Zen 2 CPUs was disclosed, but also a very easy-to-use exploit for this vulnerability was published. By exploiting this vulnerability, sensitive data, such as passwords, can be read from other processes and [...]
As many of you have already noticed, the licenses for Sophos Antivirus expire on July 20, 2023. Renewing the licenses is not an option, as the software is no longer offered as an on-premises version. The University of Göttingen participated [...]
Microsoft warns of a critical security exploiit in Outlook that is already being exploited by attackers. Manipulated e-mails can be used to pass on account access data to the attackers. It is sufficient that Outlook downloads the e-mails. It is [...]
As already announced in GWDG news 12/2022, our own Mastodon instance for AcademicCloud opens its doors today. All institutions and partners in the AcademicCloud network (institutes and universities in Lower Saxony, all Max Planck institutes and other selected partners) can [...]
No more operational messages about the status of a service at the GWDG will be published here.
Please use the link on the homepage via the RSS feed “Operating News” or go directly via https://status.gwdg.de. [...]
Due to the discontinuation of CrashPlan OnPremises, the GWDG will no longer be able to offer the GWDG CrashPlan service after 16 September. This means that after September 16th it will no longer be possible to access the backups.
As [...]
Message-Id: 202208251101
Time: 25.8.2022, 5pm - 7pm
Affected: whiteboard.academiccloud.de users
Impact: Possibility of short interruptions of the service
We are performing an update of the Collaboard service. This may cause short interruptions in the use of the service. [...]
Message-Id: 202208190649
Time:
Affected:
Impact:
Zoom clients below version 5.11.0 are vulnerable to faked meeting addresses on all supported operating systems (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows), which allow the system to be compromised.
MacOS requires at least version [...]
Message-Id: 202208150851
Time: Thursday 18.Aug.2022, 7-8 am
Affected: User of StudIp and ILIAS
Impact: Service available
Maintenance work for the e-learning systems StudIP and ILIAS was successfully completed as planned, at around 8 a.m. on Thursday, August 18, 2022. [...]
Message-Id: 202208171037
Time: Maintenance window Thursday, 18.08.2022, 18:00 – 19:00
Affected: Users of metrics.gwdg.de
Impact: Web-UI (Grafana) of metrics.gwdg.de not accessible
Due to an upgrade of Grafana (v8.5.2 -> v9.0.7) the web interface of metrics.gwdg.de will
not be available for [...]
Message-Id: 202208160824
Time: 16.08.2022, 8:15 am to 11:50 am
Affected: Home Directories
Impact: Access via samba.gwdg.de possible
We have solved the problems and access to the home directories via samba.gwdg.de is possible again without restrictions. We apologize for the inconvenience. [...]
Meldungsnummer: 202208150851
Zeitraum: Do.18.Aug.2022, von 7-8Uhr
Betroffen: Nutzer von StudIP und ILIAS
Auswirkungen: Dienste kurzzeitig nicht verfügbar
Für die bei der GWDG gehosteten E-Learning Systeme StudIP und ILIAS der Universität Göttingen stehen am Donnerstag, den 18. August 2022, von 7 [...]
Message-Id: 202207150830
Time: 30.07.2022 07:00 – 18:00
Affected: SharePoint farms
Impact: All website collections will temporarily unavailable
The GWDG SharePoint farms will be under maintenance and will be not available. This will affect all Site-Collections starting with one of the [...]
Message-Id: 202207140924
Time: 14.07.2022
Affected: All GWDG users
Impact: Delivery of a phishing e-mail
There is currently another phishing e-mail in circulation. We especially want to draw attention to e-mails where the sender pretends to be a colleague or superior
Message-Id: 202207010910
Time: Friday 1st of july
Affected: Collaboard users
Impact: collaboard is now available
The problem has been fixed and logging in to Collaboard is possible again. [...]
Message-Id: 202207010910
Time: Friday 1st of july
Affected: Collaboard users
Impact: possibility of short interruptions of the service
Due to a change of certificates at the academic cloud authentication service[1] it is currently not possible to login at our whiteboard [...]
Message-Id: 202206211400
Time: maintenance window Thursday, 23.06.2021, 18:45 h – 19:00 h
Affected: Users of the network drives in the university administration
Impact: None
To improve security and establish compatibility with future Microsoft security patches for
the Windows operating system, [...]