Author: mattgeeWe wanted to offer an update to the IT Critical Incident we experienced on Friday 22nd February. The storage supplier has offered a temporary fix as a workaround to the rootContinue reading 12:30 22/02/19 IT Critical Incident: interruption to service
We are receiving reports of a new phishing email that is arriving in University email inboxes. The email appears to be from a student but is in fact sent maliciouslyContinue reading Phishing email alert – “Display complete message”
We have hit the max number of VPN IP addresses already and while we think we can increase capacity slightly, there is no obvious workaround that doesn’t require re-architecting theContinue reading 09:45 01/02/19 VPN over capacity
Apologies for the disruption to Services yesterday. We are currently working with the service supplier to identify the root cause of the issue and work on a solution that avoidsContinue reading 16:45 21/01/19 Issues with Websites, N-Drives, Collaborative Shares
Please note that from today, we will be pausing our loans service with no further equipment to be lent out from today until further notice. We will be using thisContinue reading Pause on IT Equipment loans
We have had a report of a TV Licensing Scam email coming into a University inbox. The email claims to be from the “TVL Digital Broadcast Team” and that your TVContinue reading Spam Email Warning – TV License Scam – “oops, something went wrong with your payment”
All services are back up. We have stabilised the infrastructure that caused the interruption to our services yesterday. Most services are now available but should still be considered to beContinue reading 15:00 09/01/19 IT Service Issues
UPDATE (15:45 18/12) Email, AppsAnywhere and SMTP are now working. Personal pages are down (https://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/) Apart from the above, all services affected over the weekend are now back up. UPDATE (14:00Continue reading 09:45 17/12/18 Critical Incident – Weekend/Monday disruption
We are still receiving a high amount of reports from students and staff about a new spam email arriving in University Inboxes. This spam email is quite sophisticated in that it isContinue reading 10:00 05/12/18 Phishing alert: Blank emails asking you to ‘Open in Web Browser’ or ‘Display message’ – more reports
An official email from a University of Reading project team was sent yesterday afternoon a little earlier than scheduled. As the email was prematurely released the branding and formatting was incomplete. ThankContinue reading 10:30 04/12/18 Windows 10 email – genuine but sent ahead of schedule
