Email spoofing is a technique used in spam and phishing attacks to trick email recipients into thinking a message came from a person or entity that they either know or can trust.  In these spoofing attacks, the sender forges email accounts with a display name of an individual the recipient…

Did someone send you a shared folder in Box and you’re not able to open this, or you are receiving an error “Invalid Login Credentials”? This could be that you are not registered for a Box account.

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Earlier this week, we experienced an outage in the campus virtual computing environment, which hosts virtual servers and over 100 applications. After investigating the outage, we determined the disruption was not the result of malicious activity or malware.

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Email spoofing is a technique used in spam and phishing attacks to trick email recipients into thinking a message came from a person or entity that they either know or can trust.  In these spoofing attacks, the sender forges email accounts with a display name of an individual the recipient…

DotCIO has acquired a Globus file transfer service subscription for use by all active RPI students, faculty, and staff. Globus provides a secure, unified interface to your research data.

For the upcoming academic year DotCIO will once again be offering Adobe Creative Cloud licensing for faculty and staff work use at a significant discount.  These licenses will be $110 per user per year as opposed to the normal rate of ~$250 per user per year.  The license term is from the end of…

DotCIO will be offering Rensselaer students an option to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud through Rensselaer at a significant discount over Adobe’s normal student pricing.  Pricing is as posted and subject to change at any time.  Currently licenses purchased through Rensselaer will cost $110 and…

Last year, the Rensselaer Mediasite instance moved to the cloud, and, as a part of that move, the URL changed for all Mediasite video links. While the old links will still work, they may be slower as the cloud site works to perform a redirect before serving the video.
 

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