IS Alerts
Today's Alerts
| Title | Time | Impact | Affected Services | Description | Criticality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential Maintenance on University web services | Wed 21-Oct-26, 11:30 - Ongoing |
10 hours, 53 minutes At Risk |
| We are currently performing some critical maintenance on many of our web services to ensure that they remain securely accessible. This may mean that some university websites and web based services are temporarily unavailable for a period of time. We don't have an estimated time for services becoming available again, but are working with key stakeholders across the university to ensure we prioritise maintenance on the most business critical services. Some services have already been restored and ISG are working with representatives from across the University to complete this work as quickly as possible. | High |
| Emergency Planned Datasync Outage | Wed 21-Oct-26, 18:55 Until Fri 23-Oct-26, 18:55 |
2 days Outage |
| Due to critical remote code execution vulnerabilities on our Datasync servers we have had to take them down in order to patch and address any security risks. The service is not available for the time being and users will not be able to connect /hit the page. | Medium |
| EASE legacy SSO unavailable | Wed 21-Oct-26, 18:00 - Ongoing |
4 hours, 23 minutes Outage |
| The EASE legacy Single Sign On website is currently unavailable while it undergoes patching. This will affect logins to services still using the legacy SSO and this is mainly NoteAble and the Sympa mailing list web interface (the mailing lists themselves will continue to function). It will also affect alumni logins and password resets and new account registration. | High |
| Researchfish Temporarily Unavailable | Wed 21-Oct-26, 17:30 Until Thu 22-Oct-26, 10:00 |
16 hours, 30 minutes Degraded Service |
| The Researchfish platform has been taken down whilst critical security updates are applied to it. This follows the recently disclosed vulnerability affecting certain versions of PHP. The vendor's next scheduled update is expected by 1000 on 22 October. | Low |
| Hosted websites unavailable | Wed 21-Oct-26, 17:15 - Ongoing |
5 hours, 8 minutes Outage |
| All websites on the University's central cPanel-based Web Hosting service are only available to users within the University Network and VPN for the time being. We are working to make websites available again as soon as possible. | High |
| Worktribe available following patching, but should be considered at risk | Wed 21-Oct-26, 16:30 Until Thu 22-Oct-26, 10:00 |
17 hours, 30 minutes At Risk |
| Following a period of down time, from 1455 on Wednesday 21 October, to allow the vendor time to apply patching for the critical PHP vulnerability the application was returned to service at 1630. Users have been informed that the application is back up but should be considered at risk overnight. | Low |
| EdWeb 2 sites offline | Wed 21-Oct-26, 15:00 - Ongoing |
7 hours, 23 minutes Outage |
| To mitigate against the PHP security vulnerabilities announced at 14:00 UTC today we have enabled basic auth on all EdWeb 2 sites. In preparation for this event, Pantheon, the Universitys hosting provider, pre-emptively deployed configuration changes to environments to mitigate potential attack vectors, and have implemented network-level mitigations to deflect attempted exploit payloads across the platform. Pantheon continue to patch environments to secure the platform. | High |
| Blogs.ed Restricted Access | Wed 21-Oct-26, 12:00 - Ongoing |
10 hours, 23 minutes Degraded Service |
| Blogs.ed is being temporarily restricted to EdLAN only traffic (on campus and VPN only) for essential maintance. | High |
| ECDF gitlab experiencing unusual load | Wed 21-Oct-26, 12:00 - Ongoing |
10 hours, 23 minutes Degraded Service |
| Update: 15:21 - the service will be limited to "internal to EdLAN only" for the time being. External connections will be denied. We apologise for the disruption to service. The ECDF git service is currently experiencing an unusual level of load and is being intermittently unresponsive. ECDF are aware and working on mitigating the issue. | Low |
| Upgrade of Forensic DB-DEFS, M365 SDS, MHC Group Manager and Apps | Wed 21-Oct-26, 10:00 Until Wed 21-Oct-26, 11:00 |
1 hour Outage |
| Upgrade of the Python/Django components of the Forensic DB-DEFS, M365 SDS file generation, MHC Group Manager, Applications | Low |
| Upgrade TKGI Kubernetes platform to v1.26.2 | Mon 19-Oct-26, 09:00 Until Mon 02-Nov-26, 17:00 |
14 days, 8 hours At Risk |
| Upgrade TKGI platform release from current to latest approved. Work will be spread over three weeks to satisfy both vendor and customer requirements. | Low |