We have had multiple reports of a spam email coming into staff mailboxes. The subject line says ‘FINAL VALIDATION NOTICE’ and the main section contains our branding. It looks likeContinue reading 17:00 19/09/17 Spam Email Alert – appears as ‘Final Validation Notice’
The University Executive Board (UEB) and Information Security Group have approved 2 new Information Security Policies, available online. The Information Security Incident Response and Bring Your Own Device Policies existContinue reading 14:15 04/09/17 New information security policies
Staff who have a paid for Dropbox account associated with their UoR email have been receiving a planned and approved email from Dropbox Business asking for their details so they can beContinue reading 13:15 24/08/17 Email from Dropbox Business – Not Spam
We are aware of issues with some group e-mail accounts where non-delivery reports are being received. Error message are of the form; “Delivery has failed to these recipients or group…”Continue reading 14:00 Issue with some group email accounts – fixed
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
