Monthly Archives: December 2014

Security

IT Security Exception Request Process

Safeguarding UMass Boston’s critical infrastructure and assets is the responsibility of all faculty, staff, and students.  Sometimes our faculty, staff and students need Internet access through UMass Boston ports that are blocked for security reasons. If you are seeking such access for academic or business purposes, you can use the form by going to the Internet Access Request Form page to request an exception to the university’s security policies. Your request will be carefully reviewed and evaluated by the Information Security Office before a decision is made to grant or not to grant the exception.
The formal request can be completed at Internet Access Request Form (http://apps.umassboston.net/it/form/security_exception_request​)
If you have any questions please email the Office of Information Security at InfoSecTeam@umb.edu

 

Update Notifications

Microsoft Security Patches [December 2014]

On December 9th, 2014, Microsoft released security patches for:

  • Windows 8, 8.1, 7, RT, RT8.1
  • Windows servers 2008, 2003 R2
  • Microsoft Office 2013,2010 2007

We strongly encourage you to apply these patches to your PC as soon as possible. For information about these updates please visit:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms14-dec.aspx

Click on the Windows logo located on the lower left hand corner of your computer screen, a menu will appear, click on “Control Panel”.

Once in the Control Panel, type the words “windows update” in the Search Control Panel field located in the upper right hand corner. As you do, the following screen will immediately appear:

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Now, in the upper left handle corner, click the words “check for update”. This screen will appear:

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Click the “Check for updates” button to begin the checking. The following screen will appear after the checking is completed. All Important Updates must be installed. Click the “Install updates” button to begin the installation. You will need to reboot your computer to finish the installation later.

3Alternatively, if you are using Internet Explorer you can click on Tools > and select Windows Update to install the latest security patches.

For questions please call the Service Desk @ 7-5220 or via email at ITServiceDesk@umb.edu.