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

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