IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: This website was decommissioned on July 18, 2022

Posted on July 18, 2022

This site is no longer being updated with new postings. Please visit the UBC IT Status Page at https://status.it.ubc.ca for any new status updates and incident notifications. For operational status of our enterprise-level services, users can now subscribe in multiple ways that now includes push notifications:

  • Email
  • SMS
  • Slack integration
  • Twitter
  • Webhooks
  • RSS feed
  • Custom Embed via Status API

You will be redirected shortly to the Status Page or follow the link below to go there now.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: This website will be decommissioned on July 18, 2022

Posted on June 20, 2022

The UBC IT Bulletins site will no longer be updated on July 18, 2022 and users will need to visit its replacement, the UBC IT Status Page at https://status.it.ubc.ca, where they can view or subscribe to status updates and incident notifications.

UBC IT Bulletins was kept as a legacy site in order to temporarily maintain RSS feeds and intended to provide users time to switch their subscriptions to the Status Page channels.

Before the decommission date of July 18, 2022, we recommend visitors go to https://status.it.ubc.ca to begin subscribing to the new notifications the Status Page has to offer. For our enterprise-level services, users can now subscribe in multiple ways that now include customizable push notifications:

  • SMS messaging
  • Email notifications
  • Webhooks
  • Twitter feed
  • A general RSS feed
  • Custom Slack notifications
  • Custom embed code via an API

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WordPress 4.9.2 Addresses Flash Security Issue – January 17, 2018 08:30 PT

By Operations Centre on January 17, 2018

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in the Flash fallback files in MediaElement, a library that is included with WordPress. Because the Flash files are no longer needed for most use cases, they have been removed from WordPress 4.9.2. If you haven’t already, we recommend updating to the latest version of WordPress.

 

To continue to use MediaElement, a new version is available in the WordPress plugin repository that contains a fix for the bug.

 

Security Risk: Medium

 

Actions:

  1. Update immediately to WordPress 4.9.2
  2. We recommend that you enable automatic updates on WordPress sites

 

WordPress websites and blogs hosted by CTLT

 

If your WordPress website is hoted by CTLT cms.ubc.ca, or your blog is hosted on blogs.ubc.ca, CTLT has addressed the upgrade already.

 

Additional information

https://wordpress.org/news/2018/01/wordpress-4-9-2-security-and-maintenance-release/

If you have any questions, please contact security@ubc.ca

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