In response to the huge shift to home working, CSCS is proud to announce the launch of our new Remote Device Management service for supported computers. Starting immediately, new computers purchased from us will be deployed in a safe, contact free manner, and will work as well offsite as they would onsite. What this means: […]
News and Events
Biomedical Campus Firewall upgrade April 2021
Following the successful completion to the of both Zoology and SLCU firewalls onto the new infrastructure and the network team will be completing the move of the Biomedical Campus firewall as over a weekend. Due to the nature of this change, please consider all CSCS services at-risk of disruption from 09:00 Saturday 17 April to […]
Core CSCS Network Upgrades February/March 2021
CSCS has made a significant investment to replace our core network infrastructure used by the Biomedical Campus, SLCU and Zoology. The upgrades provide several benefits: The ability to leverage faster connections to JANET and the wider university Newer, more capable equipment configured in a highly available manner The new equipment will increase resiliency, where possible […]
MacOS Big Sur Updates Blocked
Apple has released its latest MacOS version, Big Sur, and while it promises some exciting features, we ask that you hold off updating your work computers. We find that with every MacOS update something breaks and needs some configuration to work in the CSCS environment. Already 2 important issues have surfaced: It doesn’t work with […]
University Internet Security Certificate Problem Status
Due to a third-party error in how the security certificates have been issues, a number of University-wide services will experience degradation and outages today (15th January 2021). These will be experienced at different times and in different ways depending on the site, operating system of the client you are using etc. Below are some high […]
New Home Page Layout
We have temporarily redesigned our front page to present the most important information during the Covid-19 outbreak. If you would like to suggest something that would be helpful to have on our front page, please let us know by sending an email to webmaster@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Advice on Working from home during the COVID 19 Pandemic
CSCS Network – emergency investigative work
There was a brief network outage this morning from 08:20 – 08:30, which was traced to the hardware that links the Clinical School network to the larger Cambridge University Data Network, which restarted unexpectedly. We will be commencing emergency investigative work this evening from 18:00. Although network downtime is not expected, there is a risk […]
Credentials Attack 10th – 11th January 2019
We experienced another credentials-guessing attack overnight (10 – 11th January), resulting in several accounts being temporarily locked for 30min (which they do to protect themselves against brute-forced attacks like this). The attack tailed off just as working hours started, which is a common attempt to avoid detection, however we now have systems to monitor and […]
Eduroam Certificate Renewal – Thursday 10th January 2019
UIS have advised us that all Cambridge users of Eduroam need to update their login on ALL of their connected devices as soon as possible in order to continue using the service after 08:00 Thursday 10th January 2019. This update affects all users of the Eduroam service that log on with @cam.ac.uk credentials. As per […]
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