Nottingham students told to watch for suspicious contact
Criminals have accessed the data of University of Nottingham students in a cyber attack, and students are being urged to monitor their accounts for suspicious communication. The practical steps after any breach: change reused passwords, turn on two-factor authentication, and treat any call or message referencing your university details as a scam until proven otherwise — which is exactly what the extortion gangs reported last week rely on.
A lecturer liked a comment calling for a student to “face justice”
A Royal Holloway student who won compensation from his university says a politics lecturer liked a social media comment calling for him to face justice in this life and the next, after the payout. Whatever the underlying dispute, staff conduct on social media falls under university disciplinary policies, and students can complain about it through the same route as any other staff conduct.
Religious bullying and the online form it takes
European research examines religious-based bullying and cyber-discrimination in universities, including how much of it now happens in group chats and on anonymous platforms rather than in person. Universities’ harassment procedures cover online conduct between students, which is the part most people assume falls outside them.