We are advising that you beware fake e-mails such as ones pretending to be either from Voicemail, HMRC, image scanners, courier deliveries, company complaints etc, containing small “Zip” attachments.
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Early in October, the multimedia giant Adobe admitted to having suffered a data breach of significant proportions, with initial estimates from Adobe numbering it at 2.9 million compromised accounts. Just how significant is now becoming clearer as the count of those compromised is still increasing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Personal home pages, i.e. those hosted at www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~[username], have been moved to a new server. Read the rest of this entry »
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On 2 December 2013, there will be changes to how you connect to the Wi-Fi at the University of Reading. In order to keep in line with the recommendations of the Eduroam Federation, we will be changing the eduroam network to no longer support WPA-Enterprise encryption. Read the rest of this entry »
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The end of Windows XP and Office 2003 support from Microsoft is now only 6 months away. As in our previous news item, from April 2014, there will no longer be any operating system or security updates made available from Microsoft. Read the rest of this entry »
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Please note that the email that you may have received this morning is spam. Please do not click on any links in the mail. An image of the email is attached below. Read the rest of this entry »
AppGrad is not approved for use with University of Reading IT Systems and should not be used. It is not associated with the University of Reading. Read the rest of this entry »
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Version 10.3 of Sophos Endpoint Security client for Windows is coming early in October. This version adds support for the Sophos Client Firewall on Windows 8 workstations as well as an updated threat engine. Read the rest of this entry »
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Following Microsoft’s currently aggressive pricing on the Surface Tablet, particularly the Windows 8RT version, here are some pros and cons for this Operating system Read the rest of this entry »
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We have started to force the Office 2010 Service Pack 2 installation to all our managed PCs since 29 August.
Once the install has finished, the next time that Outlook is opened, you may experience sluggish opening of your InBox, if a re-index for Search occurs.
Also, PCs may run more slowly whilst the install is running.
Office 2010 SP2 has been available since end of July and contains significant bug and performance fixes. We normally push current Office SP to desktops around this time every year.
The only known issues with SP2 are not relevant, as they apply only to Server 2003.
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