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Spring MiChart System Upgrade Coming April 21
The next MiChart upgrade is planned for Sunday, April 21. This will be the first planned upgrade for 2024 with a goal to introduce new features, limit impact to the organization, and maintain regulatory requirements.
New Year, New Operating System! Windows 11 Upgrade Coming Soon
Between now and April, Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) will be upgrading CoreImage PCs to Windows 11, the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system. More ...
ALERT: Update Google Chrome ASAP for Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
No action is needed for CoreImage machines. This message is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university devices running the Google Chrome web browser. It will also be of interest to individuals who have Chrome installed on their own devices.
MedInfo Retirement: URL Redirects
A URL redirect ensures end users who bookmarked your site can still access it. Learn more about requesting redirects that will be in place through 2029.
January IT Updates: Windows 11 upgrade, event support expansion, MiShare and MedInfo changes
Your monthly digest of upcoming changes and enhancements to IT hardware, software, and services.
NOTICE: Increase in remote tech support scams
This notice is intended for the U-M Security Community and IT Groups. Please share this message with faculty, staff and students in your unit.
ALERT: Update Google Chrome ASAP for Zero-Day Vulnerability (no action needed for CoreImage machines)
This message is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university devices running the Google Chrome web browser. No further action is needed for CoreImage users. It will also be of interest to individuals who have Chrome installed on their own devices.
Help Me Now (HMN) and Paging offices will be closed Monday, December 25 and Monday, January 1
The in-person services will be closed for the holiday.
HITS Expands AV Support for Events with Preferred Partner
City Events Group will join HITS in supporting events across the hospital and medical school.
ALERT: Apply Urgent Update to Google Chrome
NOTE: EDEM is in the process of getting the updated version packaged and will be deploying it to all CoreImage devices in the coming days - there is no action CoreImage users need to take. However, it will be of interest to individuals who have Chrome installed on their own devices.
Offboarding 101: don’t lose your team’s data when someone leaves Michigan Medicine
Protect your team’s hard work. Incorporate these offboarding practices for a secure and seamless transition.
Help Me Now and UH South Paging Services Offices closed from November 23–November 24
The in-person services will be closed for the holidays.
NOTICE: Increase in Phishing Scams Utilizing Legitimate Services
There has been an increase in phishing scams that utilize or imitate legitimate U-M services, such as Duo and DocuSign. Please be aware of these ongoing scams and share this information with faculty, staff and students in your unit.
Outlook calendar update beginning Nov. 16
On Thursday, November 16th at 6:00 a.m., HITS will implement the ability to view Outlook calendars across Michigan Medicine, Sparrow, and U Health-West.
Michigan Medicine named best hospital in Michigan by Newsweek
Newsweek calculated scores for each hospital by weighing recommendations from peers, patient experience data, hospital quality metrics and patient-reported outcome measures implementation.
Ready for fewer Duo prompts? ‘Remember Me’ now available for Michigan Medicine
Duo Remember Me for seven days is now available across applications where you sign in with your Michigan Medicine (Level-2) credentials.
ALERT: Update VMware vCenter Server for critical vulnerability
VMware has released updates to address a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server that could lead to possible remote code execution. Affected VMware servers and components should be updated as soon as possible after appropriate testing. Because of the severity of the vulnerability and the lack of workaround to mitigate it, VMware has released patches for some legacy versions of their products, as noted below.
ITS IA Notice: Beware of student football ticket scams
Help spread awareness of student ticket scams
ITS Information Assurance recently has seen an increase in the sophistication of student football ticket scams. Please be aware of these ongoing scams and share this information with your student population, student advisors, and faculty.
The scammers use GroupMe or other social media to offer U-M football tickets for sale. Then the scammers follow up by sending forged emails that appear to come from real students’ @umich.edu email addresses. The emails:
Students should be suspicious of offers for football tickets and should send a new, separate email to the seller’s @umich.edu email address to verify their identity. If they reply to a message they received, the reply-to address will most likely be another email address and they may not notice if they are not paying attention.
Refer to How to Spot a Spoof for tips on recognizing clues that indicate an email might be spoofed or forged.
Students who have fallen victim to one of these scams, which resulted in loss of money, should contact the University of Michigan Police Department at 734-763-1131.
ADVISORY: Apply patch in curl for high-severity vulnerability
An update to address a high-severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl, a command line tool and library for transferring data, has been released with curl 8.4.0. Apply the patch as soon as possible after appropriate testing to affected systems, especially those using SOCKS5 proxies.
ADVISORY: Prepare to patch high-severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl
See the update to this advisory. This message is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for any systems that utilize curl and libcurl.
NOTICE: Update Android Devices ASAP
Google has released an important update for Android to remediate a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-4211) that is being actively exploited in the wild. We expect additional software vendors will also be releasing updates to fix other applications affected by this vulnerability.
Update Android devices as soon as possible.
ALERT: Vulnerability in GNU C Library on many Linux Distributions
A vulnerability (CVE-2023-4911) in the GNU C Library (i.e., glibc) on many popular Linux distributions has been discovered. Successful exploit of this vulnerability can give a malicious actor full root privileges. Proof of concept (POC) exploit code is publicly available. Linux systems should be patched as soon as possible.
ALERT: Apply Urgent Update to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Browsers, and other software (CVE-2023-5217)
NOTE: EDEM is in the process of getting the updated version packaged and will be deploying it to all CoreImage devices in the coming days - there is no action CoreImage users need to take. Note that EDEM does not manage Firefox, so if users have it installed they should follow ITS instructions and update manually.