UITS system compromised?

University Information Technology Support systems might have experienced a\nsecurity compromise, said Dennis Gillespie, manager of the UITS Support Center.\nGillespie said no one is certain whether it was a compromise, meaning someone purposefully intruded upon the machines, or a vulnerability, meaning certain machines were not patched well enough to prevent problems.\n"I don't know the extent of it," Gillespie said. "...It may just be a\nvulnerability. We won't know until (Monday)."\nHe said the affected devices included internal development machines and not\nstudent server technology or centers, which would be what most students use\ndaily.\nAn e-mail sent out to UITS consultants and support staff said a server had been\ncompromised and a timetable for its restoration was unknown.\nUITS plans to issue a report explaining what happened. But Angie Quick,\ncommunications officer for UITS said she doesn't know when that report will be completed.\n"We don't have an estimated time of completion at this point," she said. "At\nthis time I don't know when the report will be completed"