As you probably heard in the news, a vulnerability in software that is
used extensively at many online sites called Heartbleed, was announced
on Monday, April 7. This vulnerability made it possible for an
attacker to contact a web server and look
Due to residual problems after the hardware repairs last night, the
ADSM-1 backup server is back down again.
Services impacted
* The ADSM-1 server is unavailable for backup or
Blackboard Inc. is updating the SafeAssign plagiarism tool which will
require a service outage on Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 9am to 11am
CST. For the first half hour, SafeAssign functionality will not be
available. For the remainder of
Due to a hardware problem, the ADSM-1 and ADSM-4 backup servers are
down. This does not affect the ADSM-2 backup server, which is
operating normally.
Services impacted
* Backups scheduled for Monday
Connect with us on Twitter @UIC_ACCC! We want to share the latest ACCC
technology news, tips and resources with you, so weâre joining the
Twitter community. Weâll also be tweeting
ACCC is upgrading software on the Tigger system to improve
performance. The Tigger system will be down during this maintenance on
Saturday, April 19, 2014 from 9:00 PM until 6:00 AM on Sunday, April
20, 2014.
The services that will
Some users may be experiencing network connectivity issues connecting
from UIC to UIUC (uillinois.edu). We are investigating this issue and
are working to restore service. For questions, please contact
Some users may be experiencing issues with wireless internet access.
We are investigating this issue and are working to restore service.
For questions, please contact consult@uic.edu or 312-413-8080, option
Some users reported that the Blackboard service is slower that usual
and some other users even reported getting error messages. The
Blackboard managed hosting team discovered one of the application
servers was non-responsive. After a quick
To improve wireless internet access on campus, we will be performing
network maintenance on Friday, April 4, 2014, at 10pm. The affected
buildings are listed below. Wireless users in these buildings, at that
time, will experience an approximate
Some users may be experiencing issues with wireless internet access.
We are investigating this issue and are working to restore service.
For questions, please contact consult@uic.edu or 312-413-8080, option
Microsoft is discontinuing support for Windows XP after the next patch
cycle on April 8, 2014, and it is widely anticipated that hackers will
begin to target machines running Windows XP soon after.
To ensure the security
To improve network security, ACCC will be performing network
maintenance from April 11th through June 30th at 9:30pm each Friday
night for approximately five minutes. Downtime is not
Some users may be experiencing issues with wireless internet access.
We are investigating this issue and are working to restore service.
For questions, please contact consult@uic.edu or 312-413-8080, option
Some users may be experiencing issues routing or sending email from
UIC to Gmail. We are investigating and are working to restore service.
For questions, please contact consult@uic.edu or 312-413-8080
This morning after 10 a.m., a resident of Commons South survived a
criminal sexual assault in the residence hall shower. She is receiving
medical and supportive care. Other residents who heard the attack
summoned UIC Police and successfully
As you may know, IDOT is working on the Circle Interchange project,
which includes construction on the Peoria and Halsted Bridges. This
construction will affect some phone service on the east side of
UICâs campus as
ACCC is installing new hardware and upgrading software on the Tigger
system to improve performance. The Tigger system will be down during
this maintenance on the following
ACCC will perform maintenance to improve network connectivity to the
research network (available only to researchers) during our standard
maintenance window on Sunday, March 23rd from 11am â 1pm. Please
note that there may be limited
