2024 news from IT Services

Hoping to bag a bargain in the Black Friday sales this month? Whether you’re making a start on Christmas shopping or just planning to treat yourself, it’s important to stay safe when shopping online.

From Facebook or Instagram, online banking apps, work emails and even sensitive research data, all of us rely on passwords to protect both our personal and professional private information.

We recently sent out a simulated phishing email to a number of staff inviting them to join a new professional network.

Although we work hard to minimise interruptions to IT across the University, sometimes our key services do experience disruptions.

When you sign up to a third-party service or app such as Uber or PayPal you’re often asked to supply an email address.

Everyone at the University has a responsibility to keep their online accounts secure and practise good cybersecurity.

Did you know that one of the main causes of data breaches at universities is staff accidentally sending emails to the wrong person?

We will be renewing the network certificate on Thursday 17 October.

As you begin to settle into student life, maybe you’re returning to York after summer vacation or maybe this is your first time at university, it’s important to make sure that any personal devices you use such as mobile phones or laptops are kept secure.

As part of ongoing work to manage storage efficiently at the University, we will be turning off Google Photos for all users from 16 December 2024.

Imagine waking up one morning to find your bank accounts empty, your social media accounts hacked and no idea where your personal information may have been shared.

Following a period of consultation with staff, IT Services have finalised the data retention policy for Slack, which will be implemented in January 2025.

Specifically developed to support everyday student life at York, the MyUoY app includes lots of features to help make day-to-day life on campus easier such as the ability to view your timetable and find where you need to be on campus.

To celebrate 30 years of the University of York website, we caught up with Julian Richards to find out how having a dedicated University website benefited academics at York.

Mike Brudenell, a previous IT Services employee, first stumbled across something called the ‘Worldwide Web’ in an article in the early 1990s.

Welcome, or welcome back, to the University of York. The IT support team are here to help you with any IT related questions or problems during your time at the University.

IT Services are taking measures to enhance information security and data privacy across the University.

IT Services will be retiring the China Connect service from 1 September.

The Cybersecurity team recently sent out a simulated phishing email to a number of staff claiming to be from ‘Google Account Security’.

IT Services are currently organising the upgrade of all managed Windows PCs and laptops across the University to Windows 11.

On Thursday 25 July, the Duo authorisation prompt page will be updated to a new version which looks significantly different to the current display.

Google will be winding down the digital whiteboard tool Jamboard at the end of 2024.

IT Services will be implementing a data retention policy for Slack at the beginning of 2025.

We are making some changes to how Zoom is used across the University.

Thank you to all those who joined us at last week’s Viking 2 launch event.

There are some important things to keep in mind if you need to use IT services over summer vacation.

IT Services are taking measures to enhance our information security and data privacy by reviewing third-party access to University of York Google accounts.

We’ve recently seen an increase in the number of students receiving spam and phishing emails.

We have been made aware of a phishing scam which is being used to compromise institutions' two-factor authentication (2FA).

IT Services are hosting an event to celebrate Viking 2, our high performance compute cluster and its new sustainable home at EcoDataCenter in Sweden.

Beyond technological improvements IT Services is committed to sustainability across our organisation.

We have been alerted to an email scam targeting students by asking them to buy a yearbook.

IT Services have won the award for the Sustainable Digital Project or Initiative at the prestigious UCISA awards.

We all know that there has been an increase in online scams and fraud targeted at students in recent years. However HMRC are now warning students to make sure they are not inadvertently helping criminals to commit online fraud.

We’re making improvements to how you request IT software on your University Windows laptop or computer.

This article is for anyone who uses the University’s wiki service to create and host documentation, develop content or share notes.

This week is Data Privacy Week. As our everyday lives move increasingly online, the week acts as a useful reminder of the importance of online privacy.

If you got a new computer, tablet, mobile phone or games console over the Christmas break, find out how to make the most of it and get it working with our services.