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Avaya Messaging, New Voicemail Coming May 20
Telephone Services is pleased to announce a new voicemail service coming May 20 called Avaya Messaging. Your new voicemail service provides a web access portal for managing messages and settings for Lab phones online and a new feature that allows you to define “find me” rules. Read more »
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Google’s “Critical security alert” email
Created by Michael Narong Smitasin, last modified by Jay Krous on Dec 14, 2018 Overview You may receive an email like the below stating a “Sign-in attempt was blocked” for an email address in the @gtempaccount.com domain. This is not an attack or concerning; it’s just benign leftovers from a transition. Background The “username%lbl.gov@gtempaccount.com” was created… Read more »
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Nov. 30, 2018 – Vulnerability to Zoom Meeting Client
Zoom has identified a vulnerability in its Zoom Meeting Client for Mac, Windows and Linux. This vulnerability is pretty bad, we believe it’s worth you taking the time to upgrade. The vulnerability could enable execution of unauthorized Zoom commands like spoofing chat messages, hijacking screen controls and kicking attendees off calls and locking them out… Read more »
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IT Survey Begins
IT Division’s user survey kicks off this morning. A statistically valid sample of the laboratory population has been selected by the survey firm retained by IT Division (MOR Associates) and those users received email this morning asking for them to participate in the survey. IT wants to thank those of you selected in advance for… Read more »
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Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro Solid-State Drive Recall
Apple recently announced that there are a limited number of 13-inch MacBook Pro (non-Touch Bar) laptops from 2017 and 2018 that have defective 128GB or 256GB solid-state drives. Apple suggests that to avoid data loss, these drives be replaced as soon as possible. They have a website to determine if your laptop is affected, see… Read more »
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macOS Mojave Currently Blocked
Operations computers are managed by the IT Workstation Support Group under the Operations Desktop Support (ODS) program. At this time Operations Mac users cannot install the latest macOS, Mojave. We are currently blocking this macOS until we can confirm that all standard ODS software is compatible with the upgrade. Test results indicate that all software… Read more »
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PC Gamers Use 75 Billion Kilowatt Hours
Why would this article be featured in IT Spotlight? The Green Gaming Project was a collaboration between Science and IT. Evan Mills and Norm Bourassa, senior scientists from the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division, worked together with a group of avid gamers from the IT Workstation Support Group to measure the energy consumption from… Read more »
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Endless Reboot Loop Due to macOS High Sierra Update
ProblemThe IT User Support Group has had several calls from customers this morning regarding the endless reboot loop of their system after installing the latest High Sierra macOS update. Error message is,“The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.”The system then enters an endless… Read more »
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Major Power Disruption Leads to Outage
On Oct 22, a major power disruption to the 50 Complex required shutdown of all institutional business and science systems.Power is still out to Building 50.Lab Business Systems are restored to service, but may be shut down again since they are operating on temporary cooling.Science systems are dependent on full restoration of power to Building… Read more »
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Poodle Resources
Created by James Welcher, last modified by Jay Krous on Oct 17, 2018 Poodle Resources Vulnerability Description and Assessment: The “Poodle” vulnerability is a protocol weakness in SSL 3.0. An attacker sitting between a client browser and a webserver could issue a man-in-the-middle attack and decrypt the encrypted SSL traffic. SSL 3.0 is a very… Read more »
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Help IT Automate Your Asset Inventory
This year a pilot program between IT and Berkeley Lab Property Management used BigFix in the Lab’s Wall-to-Wall inventory campaign to certify the existence of a DOE tagged asset. Any DOE-barcoded system running BigFix and present on the LBL network can be automatically verified for inventory purposes, without the barcode being scanned. This saves property… Read more »
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High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, Large-Scale Computing Aid Study of Early Universe
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring designed to investigate quark-gluon plasma, the primitive matter that filled the early universe. Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division, in partnership with IT’s Scientific Computing Group, has recently established a new site on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid to provide… Read more »
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How do you study matter at the beginning of the universe? With high-energy nuclear collisions and large-scale computing
By Erica Yee • August 28, 2018 The Science IT Profiles series highlights how the Scientific Computing Group supports the work of Berkeley Lab researchers spanning various disciplines. Scientists can’t go back in time to witness the origin of the universe, so they do the next best thing: recreate the conditions of… Read more »
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