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by Joe Lee

After several months of preparation and hard work, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) Service Counter and Teaching Studio Areas have been successfully moved from Academic 1 (AC1) to Academic 2 (AC2) before the commencement of Semester A, 2012-13. In fact, the new Service Counter located on 4/F (AC2 ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Websites and web applications are often used by universities for public access and provide required services to their end-users, including staff and students, round-the-clock (e.g ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Code Injection is a type of exploitation caused by processing invalid data input. The concept of injection attacks is to introduce (or "inject") malicious code into a program so ...

by Francis Chu

Background – CityU’s Unified e-Learning Management System and e-Portal Since 2005, the University has adopted the Blackboard Academic Suite (Bb) as the unified e-learning management system as well as a platform for the University e-Portal. It is widely used by all CityU members for teaching ...

by Joseph Leung

According to our past experience, more than 50% of incoming emails are possibly spam in nature. These emails not only waste our system resources, but also cause delay of normal email delivery. Users would be annoyed, and even worse, they have to take security risk when opening the message or the ...

by Joe Lee

​ The CSC Student Terminal Area (STA) has been located on Level 2, AC1 (previously named Academic Building) since 1990 when the University moved from the Mongkok campus to the current permanent campus in Kowloon Tong. The STA had undergone a few changes over the years before it arrives at its final ...

by Joe Chow

Introduction Virtualization in computing, according to Wikipedia, “ is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources ”. The same virtualization concept can also be extended to include ...

by Eric Shai

Screen shot 2 of CityVoD
The new CityVoD ( ref: http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cityvod/) was launched in November last year. Its interface not only changed to allow users to use mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7 to navigate and watch videos but the underlying technology of the service also enhanced ...

by Joseph Leung

The Sun Java System Messaging Server (JSMS) has been used as the staff email server for many years. It can no longer satisfy today’s communication needs for advanced features such as calendar and appointment scheduling, cooperate phone book, task and reminders, anywhere anytime access via web ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ SaaS provides the most integrated functionality built directly into the offering, with the least customised extensibility, and a relatively high level of integrated security ...