Contact Information

Contents

• Constituency
• RUS-CERT’s Postal Address
• Location
• Special Mailboxes
• Staff
• Associations

RUS-CERT is the Computer Emergency Response Team of Stuttgart University.

Despite its name containing the letters “RUS”, which is the abbreviation for “Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart” (Computing Center of Stuttgart University) it is not part of the computing center but a department of the university’s administrative body.

The name origins of its roots, it started 1998 as a department of RUS and was transformed into an entity directly reporting to the administrative head of Stuttgart University in 2001. Since by then the name “RUS-CERT” already was well-known in the community, it was decided to keep it.

If you are looking for the Russian CERT you might want to go to RU-CERT .

Constituency

RUS-CERT is the default IT security contact for the following IP address ranges:

• 129.69.0.0 through 129.69.255.255 (129.69.0.0/16)
• 141.58.0.0 through 141.58.255.255 (141.58.0.0/16)
• 141.70.128.0 through 141.70.255.255 (141.70.128.0/17)
• 192.108.35.0 through 192.108.44.255 (192.108.35.0/24, 192.108.36.0/22, 192.108.40.0/22, 192.108.44.0/24)

Systems using an IP address in these ranges as well as all users of such are part of RUS-CERT’s constituency.

RUS-CERT’s Postal Address

Universität Stuttgart
RUS-CERT
Breitscheidstraße 2
D-70174 Stuttgart
Germany

Fax: 0711/685-8-3688
Telephone: 0711/685-1-CERT (2378)

Location

Map showing RUS-CERT’s situation in Stuttgart and information on how to get there.

Special Mailboxes

Please send mail to just one of the mailboxes. Messages sent to multiple mailboxes will be handled with reduced priority.

Please avoid using HTML in email. HTML is not designed to be used in email messages and can introduce security risks. It is also widely used in spam hence messages containing HTML often are classified as spam and segregated. Therefore, RUS-CERT does not support HTML messages.

Each message sent to one of RUS-CERT’s mailboxes will receive a case number in the following form: [RUS-CERT#nnnnnn].
Please include this number (including the brackets) in the subject of all further messages concerning the same issue.

• abuse@uni-stuttgart.de
  Please report suspected Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) violations or violations of the User Regulations for Digital Information Processing and Communication Equipment (IaC) at the University of Stuttgart to this mailbox, especially if your complaint contains personally identifiable information.
• cert@uni-stuttgart.de
  Please send reports about suspicious behavior of hosts or network devices to this address.
• uni-fw@uni-stuttgart.de (the university’s firewall)
  Contact persons internally registered to RUS-CERT may notify change requests for filter rules in the perimeter firewall to this address. See also Uni-Firewall.
• uni-netz@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
  Please report networking problems (LAN/MAN/WAN) or trouble with network infrastructure (DNS, SMTP) to this mailbox. Problems concerning network operation are not in RUS-CERT’s but in the scope of responsibiliy of the LAN department (NKS of Stuttgart University’s computing center).

Staff

You can use our OpenPGP-Keys for encrypted communication with individual RUS staff members.

Please use the role e-mailboxes as explained above by default. Personal e-mail addresses should be used in special cases only.

Former Staff Members:

• Friedemann Bauer
• Jochen Thomas Bauer
• Matthias Bilger
• Jochen Buchholz
• Stefan Bühler
• Thomas Fabritius
• Tom Fischer
• Anselm Garbe
• Igor Gilitschenski
• Bertram Lindner
• Sebastian Korff
• Christian Lützelberger
• Sonja Lützelberger
• Milosch Meriac
• Zafer Özalt
• Jennifer Regner
• Helmut Springer
• Bernd Vierling
• Florian Weimer
• Boris Wesslowski

RUS-CERT is Member of the following Associations