News

by Wilson Wong

Numerous websites and applications have been deployed on the Central IIS production Web Server, namely the www6.cityu.edu.hk. Without proper User Acceptance Testing (UAT), site owners cannot guarantee the new sites are delivering the expected quality or the new applications may even cause ...

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 Christina Wu

A number of strategic measures have been prepared at CityU for the double cohort of first-year students beginning their undergraduate studies this semester.

by Eliza Lee

CityU was named a 2012 Computerworld Honors Laureate, while Dr Andy Chun Hon-wai,CityU’s Chief Information Officer, won the 2012 Hong Kong CIO Award.

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 Michelle Leung

CityU, in support of its Discovery-enriched Curriculum and the growing importance of mobile technology, has allocated HK$9 million to implement its e-learning strategy.