Computing Services and Instructional Technology

SECURITY ALERT: New phishing scam reported

We appear to be starting the academic year with yet another widely distributed email phishing scam.

Network Nebraska Internet services restored after brief outage

Internet services have been restored to NWU following a brief outage. 

SECURITY ALERT: Updated assessment of “NotPetya” (this weeks’s cyber attacks)

Security firms are re-assessing the most recent wave of cyber-attacks which spread across the world in the last 48 hours.

SECURITY ALERT: New, widespread ransomware attacks reported across Europe

News agencies are reporting this morning a new wave of cyber attacks are hitting computers across Europe.

NWU VPN services have been restored

We are pleased to report that the NWU VPN service has been restored.  Should you experience any trouble connecting to the NWU network via your VPN

NWU VPN connection temporarily unavailable

The network appliance which facilitates virtual private network (VPN) connections to internal computing resources is temporarily unavailable.

SECURITY ALERT: Massive ransomware attack across Europe

There is breaking news of a massive ransomware attack which is impacting computer system across Europe.  The ransomware variant – being called “Wan

Colleague, WebAdvsior and Informer downtime Saturday May 13

Shawn will be in Saturday May 13 running windows updates on our administrative servers.