News

December 2014

by JUCC ISTF

Protection against Hacking
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ There are a number of risks universities should pay attention to when considering or implementing different hacking protection methodologies. 1. Excessive Reporting and False ...

by JUCC ISTF

Protection against Hacking
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Introduction to Hacking In order to protect the universities' information systems against malicious attacks, IT professionals should obtain a basic understanding of the common ...

by Annie Yu

With technology moving along at a rate so fast that it is easy to fall behind if one does not stay up to date with one’s IT skill set. The Computing Services Centre (CSC) saw the training needs and had been running Staff Computer Courses and Student Computer Literacy courses for many years. Course ...

by S K Tsui, Cheung Sai Hung

wifi
CityU has been offering wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) service since year 1997. It enables us the freedom and flexibility of accessing the Internet without cable. With the sharp growth of different brands and models of Wi-Fi user devices being brought and used on campus which may run different Wi-Fi ...

by Kevin Chan

What is Lync Online? As the University has adopted Microsoft Office 365 (O365) not long ago, one of its module, Lync Online Service (Lync for short) is also offered in the software suite. Lync is a unified communication cloud service hosted by the Microsoft which supports various interactive ...

September 2014

by Henry Wong

University Email
With the successful migration of the University email systems for students and alumni from the on-premises systems to Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online (“O365” is Microsoft’s cloud solution for educational institutions) in 2013, the Information Strategy and Governance Committee (ISGC) of the ...

by Joe Lee, Simpson Wong, Tony Chan

Relocation of Mac Lab To improve management of Teaching Studios, the Mac Lab (AC2-5607) has been relocated to room AC2-4101 on 4/F. All Mac machines, lockers, benches and the working environment are maintained. Room AC2-5607 is now equipped with advanced PCs providing two operating systems (Windows ...

by Tony Chan

Nowadays, the adoption of mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones are changing the way that people work. Using personal devices at work makes users feel more comfortable and work faster with their own customized and personalized settings, thus increases productivity levels as well as user ...

by JUCC ISTF

firewall
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Firewalls are part of the IT environment of universities and shall be secured in accordance with the universities' Information Security Policies and relevant industrial standards ...

by JUCC ISTF

firewall
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Like universities' other information systems, desktops or networks, firewalls are computing devices/applications and also have vulnerabilities exposed to certain type of ...