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Spear phishing attack: Fraudsters have been launching a spear-phishing attack against ECE e-mail users. Please disregard messages asking you to log in on non-ECE and unencrypted websites. If you have fallen for the scam, change your password immediately. Learn more…
mirrors.ece.ubc.ca down (Aug 23, 2013): The ECE mirror server was down due to a hardware failure.
Spam/phishing/mail delivery problems (Apr 15, 2013; updated May 21, 2013): One ECE user's account was compromised after divulging his/her password in a phishing attack, and was used to send spam. As a result of this incident, mail from ECE is currently being rejected by some e-mail providers, including GMail, Hotmail, and Comcast.
End-of-Life for Matlab old license servers: fs6 and service (Jan 2013): Please note that the license servers on fs6 (for research) and on service (for classroom use) are going to retire soon. Please point your software to the following aliases: matlabr-lm (for research) and matlabt-lm (for teaching).

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 ==Announcements==
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+<dt>[[Spear phishing attack]]
+<dd>Fraudsters have been launching a spear-phishing attack against ECE e-mail users.  Please disregard messages asking you to log in on non-ECE and unencrypted websites.  If you have fallen for the scam, change your password immediately. [[Spear phishing attack|Learn more…]]
 <dt>[[mirrors.ece.ubc.ca down (Aug 23, 2013)]]
 <dd>The [http://mirrors.ece.ubc.ca ECE mirror] server was down due to a hardware failure.
-<dt>[[Scheduled outage of staff file server (Aug 23, 2013)]]
-<dd>The file server for ECE staff will be briefly unavailable on Friday Aug 23 between 18:30 and 19:00 while we move files to alleviate a disk space shortage.
-<dt>[[DNS outage (Jun 2013)|DNS outage (Jun 16, 2013)]]
-<dd>At approximately 17:55, one of the DNS servers at ICICS stopped responding, which caused a cascading failure of DNS service for ECE as well. The problem was resolved at 18:40 by restarting the affected nameservers.
 <dt>[[Spam/phishing/mail delivery problems (Apr 2013)|Spam/phishing/mail delivery problems (Apr 15, 2013; updated May 21, 2013)]]
 <dd>One ECE user's account was compromised after divulging his/her password in a phishing attack, and was used to send spam.  As a result of this incident, mail from ECE is currently being rejected by some e-mail providers, including GMail, Hotmail, and Comcast.