News

December 2015

by Wilson Wong

Verify a Website before Providing your Username/Password
Phishing email spreads over the Internet from time to time. You may have received suspicious email telling you that your computer account has problems/will expire/has exceeded quota/etc. and requires you to verify your identity by clicking on a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) to a web page, and then ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ There is a massive upsurge of mobile devices in the consumer market. Corporations are also demanding their employees to have instant connectivity to their working environment ...

September 2015

by JUCC ISTF

Data Centre Management
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ To ensure that data centres meet the reliability and performance needs of universities, and achieve the comprehensive protection from various security threats, a number of aspects ...

by JUCC ISTF

Data Centre Management
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Vulnerabilities of data centres are found in their physical security, systems / devices hosted and management procedures implemented. Several common exploitation techniques are ...

June 2015

by Wilson Wong

What is Information Rights Management? Information Rights Management (IRM) is a technology that protects sensitive information from unauthorized access. It allows information owners/publishers to distribute sensitive information to specific individuals. When an email or a document is protected by ...

by JUCC ISTF

Data Centre Management
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ While data centre management is a cost-saving approach and brings a lot benefits including increased productivity, higher reliability, improved security and compliance, however ...

by JUCC ISTF

Data Centre Management
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Data center management is a holistic process to oversee the operational and technical issues within a data centre or server room. It covers environmental control, physical ...

March 2015

by JUCC ISTF

Protection against Hacking
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Hardening steps specific to each hacking category should be considered when planning the protection of the universities' systems against hacking. Hardening Steps against Scanning ...

by JUCC ISTF

Protection against Hacking
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Common Types of Attack Vulnerability scanning Hacker may initiate vulnerability scanning on target organisation's network to proactively identify the vulnerabilities of computer ...