News

  • How to deal with Spam with Spam Quarantine

    As the summer season gets underway, users in the community have continued to see an increase in unwanted spam from different sources. Fortunately if that…

  • New Adobe Licensing Program for MIT

    Great news from IS&T regarding a major boon for all staff and faculty Adobe product users. Thanks,Albert  Begin forwarded message: From: Barbara J Goguen <goguen@MIT.EDU>Subject:…

  • Major Adobe vulnerabilities patched

    Adobe has just patched major vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Adober Reader and Acrobat, Adobe AIR SDK, and Illustrator CS6. Anyone running any of these programs…

  • IS&T Hardware Repair

    Hi Everyone, I wanted to give everyone the good news that someone I used to work for at Apple, Tom Brand, is now the IS&T…

  • Beware of Phishing Attacks

    Hi Everyone, Based on past experience everyone should be on alert for phishing attacks pretending to be official IT correspondences. These are emails composed by…

  • Fallout from the Heartbleed SSL bug

    Hi Everyone, By now you’ve heard about the large number of websites that were affected by the Heartbleed SSL bug.  SSL is what makes online…

  • Fake Neflix phishing scam

    We are receiving reports of a new phishing scam in play that pretends to be Netflix customer service. Gizmodo has an article documenting this scam…

  • Critical iOS update

    Apple has released a critical iOS security update for both iOS versions 6 and 7 covering all iPods, iPads, and iPhones. This update closes a…

  • Comcast could be putting a hot spot in your home

    Because Cambridge is a Comcast exclusive zone, folks in SHASS should be aware that Comcast could be enabling a hot spot in your house without…

  • Citrix Receiver version 11.8.2 for Mac

    IS&T has announced the release of the new Citrix Receiver version 11.8.2 for Mac OS X (10.6 through 10.9). For those using Citrix, the Receiver…