Thursday, January 25, 2018

Cyberinfrastructure Vulnerabilities 2017 Q4 Report

The Cyberinfrastructure Vulnerabilities team provides concise announcements on critical vulnerabilities that affect science cyberinfrastructure (CI) of research and education centers, including those threats which may impact scientific instruments. This service is available to all CI community members by subscribing to CTSC's mailing lists.

We monitor a number of sources for software vulnerabilities of interest. For those issues which warrant alerts to the CTSC mailing lists, we also provide guidance on how operators and developers can reduce risks and mitigate threats. We coordinate with XSEDE and the NSF supercomputing centers on drafting and distributing alerts to minimize duplication of effort and benefit from community expertise.

Some of the sources we monitor for possible threats to CI include:


In 4Q2017 the Cyberinfrastructure Vulnerabilities team issued the following 3 vulnerability alerts to 87 subscribers:



If you wish to subscribe to the Cyberinfrastructure Vulnerability Alerts mailing list you may do so through https://list.iu.edu/sympa/subscribe/cv-announce-l. This mailing list is public and the archives are available through https://list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/cv-announce-l.

If you believe you have information on a cyberinfrastructure vulnerability, let us know by sending us an email at alerts@trustedci.org.