UCL Computer Security Newsletter - September 2007

The purpose of this newsletter is to keep all security reps and other
interested parties informed about what is happening around UCL
regarding computer security. Further information from the Computer
Security Team is always available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cert.

1. New CST Staff Member

Rod Gliven started in CST last week, joining Daniela Nicastro and Jon
Macfarlane. Rod comes to UCL from the University of
Westminster where he was a Network Technician/Administrator.

2. CST Terms of Reference

These are now on the CST website at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cert/termsofreference.html.

3. Guidelines on giving details to third parties

CST have published some guidelines to raise awareness of social
engineering techniques. These are on the CST website at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cert/guideline-givingdetails.pdf. Feel free to
disseminate this link as you deem necessary.

4. General

Please note all correspondence from the UCL Computer Security Team is
digitally signed either with personal PGP keys or the CERT team key
(public keys available from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cert/contacts.html).

This newsletter and previous ones are available at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cert/cst-newsletters/index.html.

We welcome feedback on the content and organisation of documents on
our web page.