In certain situations, annoucements are sent out to administrators concerning a security issue. These annoucements are sent to the tamu-net mailing list. You can subscribe to the tamu-net mailing list here, or simply send mail to tamu-net-request@net.tamu.edu with the word subscribe in the subject line.

Previous announcements pertaining to information security are listed here.

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FTP

wu-ftpd announcement from CERT (July 7, 2000)

Firewall

Port 80 Change in TAMU Network Firewall Configuration (August 14, 2001)

Firewall Proposal presented at ISF Meeting (June 26, 2002)

HTTP

CGI annoucement (August 3, 1998)

Web Server Defacements (May 8, 2001)

Web Server Vulnerabilities and Survey presented at ISF Meeting (May 23, 2001)

Passwords

Password Sniffing (June 15, 1998)

SMTP

Mail Server Configuration - Relaying (August 19, 1998)

E-mail forwarding Service Implementation (April 2, 1999)

SMTP port closure (April 14, 1999)
SMTP port closure (technical version) (April 14, 1999)
Closing SMTP Ports paper presented at SANS conference in Orlando (March, 2000)

Viruses

Virus Warning (March 7, 2002)

Virii/Worms on campus (July 20, 2001)

Two New Virii on campus (November 1, 2000)