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Given COVID IT Can Help You With Your Asset Inventory

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By Babak Zavieh on 2020-11-23T16:42:04Z   During the 2019 Wall-to-Wall inventory campaign, a collaboration pilot program between IT and Berkeley Lab Property Management used and implemented BigFix to certify the existence of DOE tagged assets. Any DOE-barcoded system running BigFix on … [Read more...] about Given COVID IT Can Help You With Your Asset Inventory

Windows 10 Lifecycle and the Need to Update Your System Regularly

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By Tammera E Campbell on 2020-07-09T15:35:45Z Microsoft has taken a different approach to updating Windows 10, as they release major builds twice a year. Each build will have an end of lifecycle and will cease to be supported as defined by their End of Service date. Users should know that they … [Read more...] about Windows 10 Lifecycle and the Need to Update Your System Regularly

Apple Remote Management Service Abuse

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By Jay Krous on 2020-04-16T17:33:53Z Berkeley Lab Cyber Security has discovered bad guys exploiting Apple’s Remote Management service to conduct reflected denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. What to do? In order to protect Berkeley Lab computers from participating in this hostile activity, … [Read more...] about Apple Remote Management Service Abuse

Update Your Windows System NOW!

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By Tammera E Campbell on 2020-03-13T21:10:36Z On March 12, 2020 Microsoft released a warning to immediately update and reboot Windows systems due to a Microsoft SMBv3 Client/Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Users are advised this is an extremely dangerous vulnerability and MUST be … [Read more...] about Update Your Windows System NOW!

Critical Windows 10 Updates Must Be Installed

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By Tammera E Campbell on 2020-01-27T23:09:34Z Berkeley Lab IT has released Microsoft’s latest updates for Windows 10, which contains patches for multiple critical security vulnerabilities. One of these, CVE-2020-0601, has been identified by the Cyber Security group as a mandatory update. As … [Read more...] about Critical Windows 10 Updates Must Be Installed

CCleaner Not Authorized On Lab Computers, Must Be Removed

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By Tammera E Campbell on 2019-11-26T21:09:36Z As of Oct 17, 2019 Workstation Support is under guidance from LBL cybersecurity to remove CCleaner from all Lab systems. Computers that have BigFix (Active Mode) installed will have a pop-up appear informing the user of the action and provide a … [Read more...] about CCleaner Not Authorized On Lab Computers, Must Be Removed

Malwarebytes Enterprise License Retired

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By Tammera E Campbell on 2019-09-06T15:40:10Z Just a reminder that on June 1, 2019, Malwarebytes was no longer being offered by Berkeley Lab IT.  Existing clients will continue to function, but will not receive updates. IT recommends that users uninstall Malwarebytes. This can be done manually, … [Read more...] about Malwarebytes Enterprise License Retired

IT Best Practices

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By Tammera E Campbell on 2019-09-05T21:19:36Z Berkeley Lab computers are constantly under attack, but what should we, as users, do to protect ourselves and our systems? According to research conducted by Google, users and security experts often have different ideas as to what the best steps are … [Read more...] about IT Best Practices

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