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Earlier today (27th July 2017) the IT department detected a substantial outbreak of Spyware (a malicious programme that aims to gather information from your computer) across the University affecting overContinue reading 10:30 27/07/17 Spyware outbreak

IT’s new Academic Computing Team Manager, Ryan Kennedy, heads to Washington DC this week to represent the University of Reading at NEXT; a giant IT conference hosted by Nutanix. HeContinue reading IT’s Ryan Kennedy heads to Washington to speak Research Computing to IBM, Intel, NASA

As computers become exponentially more involved in our everyday working lives, security is an increasing concern. It’s therefore essential for security conscious individuals to keep up to date with theContinue reading 5 security experts you need to be following on Twitter

You may have seen recent reports of a significant ransomware incident at UCL. A small number of PCs were infected with malware which encrypted files stored both locally on theContinue reading Ransomware attack at UCL – survival guide

IT is providing everyone at the University of Reading with free 1TB cloud storage. Never lose your work files again! What is it? OneDrive for Business is a managed cloudContinue reading OneDrive – Free 1TB of cloud storage for all staff and students

UPDATE (11:30): Following a meeting of the Critical Incident Team at 11:00 the incident has been closed. This is due to the lack of open and ongoing problems. We areContinue reading 10:45 25/05/17 Network problems – being resolved

There have been a number of reports over the last few days of Scam phone calls targeting University of Reading staff. The caller purports to be from Microsoft saying thatContinue reading 10:40 23/05/17 Reports of scam phone calls to UoR staff

The Information Technology department is currently working hard on mitigating the risks associated with the latest CyberSecurity incident: the WannaCry worm; the cyber-attack that affected a wide range of institutionsContinue reading 10:45 17/05/17 Message regarding the ‘WannaCry’ cyber attack

UPDATE 2: Following a configuration change around midday we have seen an improvement to the service stability. This has continued to be monitored throughout the afternoon and has provided aContinue reading 15:15 03/05/17 Staff Email Interruptions

UPDATE: Remedial work on the affected infrastructure has been successful and most services are now restored. There are a few exceptions that are being investigated as a matter of priority:Continue reading 10:00 05/04/17 Service Issues – services being restored