On May 14, 2013, Microsoft released critical patches for Windows and Office 2011 for Macs. Adobe has also released critical patches for Reader, Acrobat, and Flash Player. Details

SCS Computing Facilities continually works to enhance computer security for the SCS community. The latest effort involves eliminating the use of single-DES (Data Encryption Standard) in favor of stronger cryptographic algorithms, contributing to a more secure computing environment. This change will require all users to change their SCS Kerberos passwords by Monday August 12, 2013. Details

On Monday, May 20, 2013, SCS Computing Facilities will make a change to the configuration of the Secure Shell (SSH) service on Fedora and Solaris systems running the standard SCS computing environment. Details

On Thursday, April 25, 2013 SCS Computing Facilities will will make changes to the Kerberos Instance Manager to enable the management of SCS Windows accounts. Details

SCS Computing Facilities has received the following service alert from iPass. Details

At the end of April 2013 the support period by Canonical for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LTS - Desktop formally ends. Details

SCS Computing Facilities is pleased to announce support for Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.x). Details

On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end support for both Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003. After this date Microsoft will no longer publish security updates for either of these packages. As a result, SCS Computing Facilities will also end support services for computers running Windows XP and will no longer provide support for Office 2003 beginning on April 9, 2014. Details

SCS Computing Facilities is pleased to announce the addition of Linux support for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for 64 bit systems. Supported Ubuntu Linux hosts will now run the SCS Dragon computing environment. Details