Technical Coordinators Meeting Steve Siirila Chris Bongaarts April 9, 2008

Outages 3/30: Scheduled move of power connections affected these services: – –GopherMail (single server w/faulty PS) – –LISTSERV, Lyris – –ldap.umn.edu – –Kerberos (updates only) – –Shibboleth authentication – –Short term wireless – –X.500 dropbox

Outages 3/31: Directory server sync problem – –Affected a single directory server – –Timeframe: – –3% of authenticated SMTP users got intermittent failures sending – –Some inbound incorrectly rejected 6572 of 372,992 messages rejected >21% of those were bulk

Phishing Attacks Seeing lots of targeted attacks since late February Many other higher-ed institutions attacked as well Working with OIT Security to block replies and identify users who responded DON’T SEND YOUR PASSWORD IN !

Phishing Attacks New attack: fake CAH login page skims first try at password, then redirects to real CAH Examining non-umn.edu referrers to identify potential victims

AutoFiling 15,000 users auto-filed in past month Decreased inbox storage usage from 4TB to 2.9TB (28%)

Mail Filtering Demo It’s a demo. There’s no text on the slide. :P

Bits ‘n’ Bytes M Keys: over 4,100 distributed – –Peoplesoft cut over Sunday 3/16 – –Data Warehouse is next (4/20)

‘Till next month… Chris Bongaarts Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila Steve Siirila Internet Services Internet Services