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Outages/Maintenance
On <b>Friday, Oct. 30, beginning at 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31</b>, Pitt Digital will perform EWI server maintenance on two EWI MySQL Database servers. The maintenance will impact more than 160 sites with databases hosted on these servers, and they will be offline during the upgrade. A full list of affected sites is available at https://https://www.digital.pitt.edu/news/outagesmaintenance/evening-ma….

Status: Scheduled

Outages/Maintenance
Talent Center and the Career Sites will be unavailable overnight starting midnight Friday, Oct. 30, until 4 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31 while the system receives enhancements.

Status: Scheduled

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
Monitoring confirms the issue is fully resolved.

Status: Resolved

Digital Risk Bulletin
PHP’s developers will release a patch Wednesday for two vulnerabilities rated 9.2 on the CVSSv4.0 scale that risk unauthenticated remote code execution. CERT-EU warned organizations unable to apply the fixes to prepare to take PHP-based websites offline temporarily.
PantherBytes Blog
Text scams used to be easier to spot. If a random number texted you saying you won a prize you never entered, you could just block, delete, and move on with your life. Today’s smishing attempts are more targeted, more common, and much less obvious. Here’s what you need to know to avoid getting smished.
Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Digital Risk Bulletin
BoA CEO Brian Moynihan said the bank brought in 1,000 contractors to help remediate vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, spending over $200 million on fixes. The contractors, added in Q2 to the bank’s 3,000-person technical staff, remain on hand as patching continues.
Outages/Maintenance
On Friday, Oct. 30, beginning at 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, Pitt Digital will perform EWI server maintenance on two EWI MySQL Database servers. The maintenance will impact more than 160 sites with databases hosted on these servers, and they will be offline during the upgrade. A full list of affected sites follows:
PantherBytes Blog
Phishing volume has surged more than 40-fold since genAI tools hit the market in late 2022, according to data from SlashNext cited by cybersecurity training firm Hoxhunt.
Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
Monitoring confirms the issue has been fully resolved.

Status: Resolved

Cybersecurity Awareness
Timely updates and reboots are essential to maintain the security and integrity of the University’s network. Please take note of the following updates and guidelines in three areas related to cybersecurity:1. Install New Microsoft Patches and RebootToday Microsoft released monthly security updates that affect a wide range of products. It is crucial to promptly identify and install these updates to protect your systems from vulnerabilities. Please adhere to the following installation timelines:
Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

PantherBytes Blog
A video call with your boss. A voicemail from a family member. A clip of a public figure saying something shocking. A few years ago, you could trust your own eyes and ears to sort real from fake. That’s no longer always the case.
Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
Monitoring confirms the issue has been fully resolved.

Status: Resolved

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Outages/Maintenance
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Status: Completed

Digital Risk Bulletin
The Defense Manpower Data Center, which maintains Pentagon personnel records, notified roughly 3 million people that their Social Security numbers and other personal data were exposed after unauthorized users accessed an unencrypted file-sharing server for about nine months before discovery in July.