Security

  • Phishing Email titled: IT HELP DESK

    We are getting reports of a phishing email being sent to students and staff. This is fake. Please ignore and delete this email. Please do not click any links or send any personal information. If you are concerned about an...

  • GlobalProtect VPN upgrade

    Staff and students will be prompted to upgrade the next time they start a GlobalProtect VPN session.  Please accept this prompt to GlobalProtect 3.03. Please note, the upgrade to version 3.1 is imminent. Use go.bath.ac.uk/it-status to find out the current...

  • Fake email about Webmail

    We have been alerted to an email that has been sent to some users within the University entitled "Account Lock Notice" which states that your webmail account has been locked due to too many login attempts. The links in this...

  • Password Change Request

    Recently a number of members of the University community received a phishing email which requested personal details as well as their University user name and password, leaving those who responded exposed to identity theft. As a precautionary measure Computing Services...

  • Please be aware of further phishing attacks

    Following on from the 'grant offer' phishing attack we reported earlier this week, we have received reports of another attempt this time targeting the old webmail sign on page and verifying credentials. Please be aware that all staff and students...

  • Badlock Samba vulnerability

    On April 12 2016, an important range security vulnerabilities were disclosed in Windows Server Message Block (SMB) and the Open Source implementation Samba.  The group of vulnerabilities were named Badlock and it received  attention prior to the announcement and afterwards...

  • Students - beware of 'Grant' phishing emails

    Students have recently received phishing emails purporting to be from the University Finance Office. You should not click on the link within these emails. Some of our students have reported they have received false emails pretending to be from the...

  • New OS X Ransomware affecting Transmission (BitTorrent client)

    It has recently come to light that users who downloaded version 2.90 of the Transmission BitTorrent client for OS X from official website after 3.00 GMT, March 4, 2016 and before 1100 GMT, March 5, 2016, may be been infected...