Monthly Archives: March 2022

Informatics-EdLAN connectivity

As you’ll be aware by now, EdLAN is changing, though rather more slowly than was originally anticipated for various reasons, and the way that Informatics connects to it has to change too. Under the old EdLAN, the Informatics network in … Continue reading

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All users of the University VPN must reset their password

The Chief Information Security Officer for the University announced on Monday 21st March that all users of the University VPN service MUST reset their password. Users of the Informatics OpenVPN service are not affected. Note that, as this is a … Continue reading

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Be aware of phishing

Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is calling on all UK organisations to increase their vigilance for cyber attacks. It is clear that various groups are now using this crisis as an opportunity to launch … Continue reading

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Network switch reboots

It’s time for us to arrange to reboot most of our network switches again.  We need to do this for a couple of reasons. The first is that the clocks that they use for management and reporting purposes tick in … Continue reading

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