News

December 2001

by Noel Laam

Early in the morning of 20 September 2001 when I came into the office and switched on the PC as usual, the screen was appearing funny and small windows kept popping up as if they were saying hello to me. While I was wide at sea about what had happened, a neighbouring colleague came to my rescue and ...

by Raymond Poon

In recent months, there is a significant increase in the number of virus attacks and hacking activities targeted at or originated from our campus network. During the trouble-shooting and investigations of these incidents, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) discovered that the network database ...

June 2001

by Joe Chow

The 38 Express Terminals located all over the campus have been a very handy means for the CityU community to access the campus network and the Internet ever since their set-up by the Computing Services Centre (CSC). However, this handiness also attracts the attention of some outsiders or even ...

March 2001

by Annie Yu

During the last two months or so, the CSC Help Desk service has recorded a marked increase in the number of calls on virus problems and anti-virus related matters. Virus infection on computers has indeed become a big concern in the CityU community. Many users on campus only heard how vicious ...