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One IT Colleagues,

To our campus community:

The UC Berkeley Information Security Office (ISO) is responding to a newly revealed severe software vulnerability. This vulnerability affects a broad range of websites, applications, and devices, making it extremely dangerous, and digital systems across the internet are affected. 

To our campus community,

We are pleased to announce that, after fixing vendor bugs and subsequent significant testing and monitoring of the network, all major, user-impacting systemic issues with campus Wi-Fi have been resolved. 

There are a few required changes coming to help better secure some important tools used by the campus community.

Jan. 11, 2022 - On this date, all UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and eligible affiliates will be required to sign into Zoom using their CalNet ID and passphrase. If you already log in using your CalNet ID and passphrase, no further action is required. 

Zoom has released updates to its desktop and mobile apps that address several issues that some people may have experienced lately, including slow or dropped connections. There are also a number of new and enhanced features for meetings, webinars, and chat. 

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