Passwords are not great. Increasingly, phishing emails make users vulnerable to unauthorised password resets. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) dramatically increases your security by requiring an additional code which is only visible from your smartphone or desktop computer. MFA can send a security code via SMS or a smartphone app that is Read more…
Welcome to our new students for Michaelmas term 2020. Here is a copy of the ICT Induction video and presentation for your reference. and here is a copy of the slides in PDF form: Somerville College IT Induction – Oct 2020
Update on the College network infrastructure, and it’s readiness for hybrid teaching this term Dear all, I thought I should update everyone on what we have been doing over the summer to prepare for this term in relation to the College network, and the longer view of college network requirements. Read more…
Michaelmas Term 2020 (October to December) You can now contact the ICT Office during business hours (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm) using either email to ict.desk@some.ox.ac.uk, call us on Oxford 01865 270597 or you may now book a Virtual Appointment with us please see:
The IT Helpdesk located in Maitland 1A is temporarily closed until further notice. You can still email the ICT Desk (ict.desk@some.ox.ac.uk) or call us on 01865 2 70597 and we can help you to the best of our abilities.
Dear all, We are receiving and seeing a lot of reports of a new email phishing attempt against the staff and students of the College and likely the University. This email, and many like it should be immediately deleted, please do not open the attachment, reply or click on any Read more…
If you are having trouble getting online in Somerville come to the IT Helpdesk. The IT Helpdesk is located in Maitland 1A and the opening hours for the next few days are Monday 1st October 12:00 to 13:00 & 13:30 to 14:30 Tuesday 2nd October 12:00 to 13:00 & 13:30 Read more…
Everything is currently fine as far as we know 🙂 We will publish new posts under this category if there are network/email/security or other issues to do with ICT in the College or University. Feel free to bookmark this link: http://blogs.some.ox.ac.uk/ict/category/status/ You can also see the University status page here: http://status.ox.ac.uk/ Read more…
Dear all, We are seeing new, very convincing phishing attacks against University email accounts over the long vacation. Please be mindful that neither ourselves nor IT Services will ever ask you to confirm/verify/renew/activate/reactivate your account details or mailbox details to continue service. We have had reports of this one being Read more…