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How might one measure the social cost of carbon? This is the question that brought more than 20 climate scientists, economists, data analysts, engineers, and researchers together at the Climate Impact Lab.

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The Internal Revenue Service has reported a big spike in phishing and malware incidents during the 2016 and 2017 tax seasons. Taxpayers should continue to watch out for fake emails or websites looking to steal personal information during the upcoming 2018 filing season.  These "phishing" schemes continue to be at the top of the annual IRS list of "Dirty Dozen" tax scams.

Save the date and don’t miss a great discussion with the founder of a UC IT startup, as well as the chair of the UC IT Leadership Council. We’ll devote time at the end for general town hall questions.  You’ll be able to submit them via the Slack #townhall channel, or alternatively, the Zoom chat function.

The bSecure project team would like to provide the Campus IT community, and especially administrators of existing firewall services, with an update on the planned migration to the new service, and information on what to expect next.

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Previously available to all faculty and staff, students now have free access to thousands of courses and online videos covering software, technology, business, and creative skills from the Lynda.com online learning platform! Lynda includes courses on Adobe and Microsoft tools (also available free via Software Central) and thousands of other trainings for developers, web design, audio and video production, and much more.

A new team of undergraduate interns joined the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) team this fall, and quickly became an indispensable part of Savio cluster operations. The BRC Ops Intern Program was conceived as a pilot for a BRC undergraduate fellowship program, currently in development, that will provide UC Berkeley students with hands-on experience in HPC system operations, user support, and software engineering.

The Network Operations and Services team and the Information Security and Policy group are implementing bSecure, a new firewall and information security service for campus. This service will replace the existing Cisco ASA-based Data Center and Campus Departmental Firewall services.

As of December 31, 2017, the Network Operations and Services team will no longer provision new Cisco ASA-based Data Center Firewall Services.

Over the past year, our 2017 interns at Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) have been hard at work developing a banking system in SLURM, Savio’s cluster management and job scheduling system, 

In Research IT, we believe building partnerships is a key part of growing and sustaining a thriving ecosystem for campus research computing. Our efforts to support cloud computing are one of several ways that we work to build community on our campus, across the UC system, and beyond.

Have you heard about this UC Tech Slack thing? No? Well it is a rapidly growing community with 2,500 of your information technology (IT) colleagues across the entire University of California. We have representation from all campuses and labs.

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Every new cyber-attack or scam seems to be accompanied by a barrage of cybersecurity tips, pointers, dos and don’ts that we’re expected to follow to keep ourselves and our families safe and secure. While sometimes specific tips and awareness messages are important, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and tune it all out.

Before her research led to an appointment as a Research Botanist at The University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley, Ingrid Jordon-Thaden graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Heidelberg, Germany.