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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">The College is releasing emergency Windows Updates today, starting around 1pm</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">.
There exists a critical RDP vulnerability, important enough to justify an early release of what would otherwise be our normal ‘Third Tuesday at 9pm’ patches.
<b>Computers may ask to reboot. ASC Servers will be rebooted between 8pm and Midnight.</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Computers with patching exceptions in place (scientific instrument computers) are not targeted, although we advise manually checking for updates
on these if at all possible.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">If you use remote desktop on a personally-owned computer, we advise you to check for updates there as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This applies <b>to all current versions of Windows and Windows Server</b>. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">These
are intended to fix a newly discovered set of Remote Desktop worm vulnerabilities </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1181" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#954F72">CVE-2019-1181</span></a>and <a href="https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1182" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#954F72">CVE-2019-1182</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">,
which are nicknamed </span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">DejaBlue</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">. (It’s aptly named because it feels like Déjà vu from
the BlueKeep vulnerability we had not too long ago).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/dejablue-windows-bugs-worm-rdp/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#954F72">Here’s a
WIRED article about the issue</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please email <a href="mailto:asctech@osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#954F72">asctech@osu.edu</span></a> or reply
to this message if you have any concerns.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Andrew</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000;background:white">Andrew D. Canale</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">Systems Manager</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000;background:white">College of Arts and Sciences</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> Technology Services</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">1199 Physics Research Building, 191 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210</span><br>
</span><a href="mailto:canale.6@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;background:white">canale.6@osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> </span><a href="http://asctech.osu.edu/" target="_BLANK"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;background:white">asctech.osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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