As the likes of homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk and groups.inf.ed.ac.uk are shared user services, anyone using some sort of authentication/authorisation to restrict access, has to trust the other users of those web services. A lot of the web’s security model relies on the “same origin policy”. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy which limits the access scripts have to data (particularly authentication […]

The homepages web service – homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk – is overdue an Operating System upgrade. It is still running the SL5.6 OS, where as DICE desktops are running at least SL6.2. The plan is to upgrade the homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk service to SL6.2 on the morning of Sunday 7th October. The switch over will only cause a break in […]

Below is a post from Information Services, warning about website hacking incidents that have happened recently within the University. If you are responsible for a website, or even just web pages, but particularily if you use a self run blog/wiki/WCMS, then it is a good idea to follow the advice given below and periodically Google […]

We now have a web page which can wake sleeping computers. It should wake most of our desktop machines (though not HP 7900 computers – see below). You can find it at wake.inf.ed.ac.uk. It seems a bad idea to let anyone on the internet wake any of our computers, so there are a few restrictions: […]