Category: Day to day activities

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

We are receiving reports from students and staff about a new spam email arriving in University Inboxes. This spam email is quite sophisticated in that it is uses the titleContinue reading 15:45 30/11/18 Spam email warning -Blank email – “Open in Web Browser” – “Display message”

IT have been receiving reports of a new scam/phishing email coming into University staff inboxes. The scam email is designed to make the person who receives it believe that aContinue reading 13:45 29/11/18 – Scam email warning – ‘Are you on campus’

On the 24th and 25th of October we had two critical incidents in IT. 24th – Network Issue The incident on Wednesday 24th October affected both the wired and Wi-FiContinue reading Update on recent IT Critical Incidents

We are receiving reports of a Phishing email coming into University inboxes. This is not an official University email and clinking on the links could harm your computer/data. The emailContinue reading 10:45 07/11/18 Phishing email – “Review blocked sign-in attempt”