Currently, University email service to a student or staff will be stopped when the student/staff leaves the University. For students properly graduated from the University, they will be provided with a set of alumni services which include free email. The email address is in the format of EID@alumni ...

Background The sophistication of IT crime increases as technology advances. Widespread of scams are rampaged through the popular use of the Internet and email. Among all IT crimes, they are dominated by phishing and identity theft activities [1]. Phishing is a high-tech scam that uses spam email or ...

What is two-factor authentication? It means users, in addition to their password, need one of the following to log in a system or to access a network service: One form of tokens provided by the service provider (e.g., a key fob or a smart card) The output of one form of biometric scans on finger or ...

The Computing Services Centre (CSC) has been offering comprehensive IT support and services to faculty, staff and students especially in the lecture theatre (LT) and classroom environment. In particular, the CSC has worked with the Facilities Management Office (FMO) to provide a complete set of ...

Spam, or junk mail, refers to unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and unsolicited bulk email (UBE). It is an annoying problem faced by most of the email users. In order to provide better spam filtering service, CSC has upgraded the "spam scanner" software from SpamAssassin to Sophos Pure Message ...

The Mobile Computer Service (MCS) is a service provided by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) to allow students to access the campus network and the Internet via the wireless LAN to facilitate their studies. All full-time and part-time students in the main campus are eligible to borrow notebook ...

Connecting to today's turbulent computing environment is not risk free. How can users survive from unknown virus infection, phishing attacks, software vulnerabilities and zero-day exploit? We have used McAfee's anti-virus software for some years and the ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) since 2002 for ...

In response to the rapid changing computing environment and increasing demand for services, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) set up the Help Desk in September 1997 with dedicated human, hardware and software resources to help users resolve their day-to-day usage problems. (see Network Computing ...

CityU has been offering the Wireless LAN (WLAN) service since 1997. The population of registered WLAN clients has increased more than ten folds from less than 200 at the beginning to more than 3000 clients now. WLAN technology is changing rapidly and new standards are emerging in the market ...

Whether you are a mobile phone user or an owner of a handheld device or smart phone, you may encounter technical and industry-specific terms like GSM, CDMA, WAP, MMS, SMS, GPRS (2.5G), 3G, Wi-Fi and bluetooth. To have a better understanding of the wireless world we're in, let us take a look at these ...