Have a simple project to work on with a team? Consider using Microsoft Planner for organizing and managing teamwork.  It’s free and part of the Office 365 suite!

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…

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.

What is Box?

Did you know that you can gather information you need very easily by creating a fillable PDF form in Word? 

Examples of PDF fillable forms:

Course Drop form:

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…

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…

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.
 

Do you need to know if someone can attend a gathering, or ask a group about their availability for a monthly meeting, or make a food selection? This can easily be done using Polls in Microsoft Outlook or Teams!

News agencies are reporting on a widespread data breach due to a software vulnerability in a third-party file transfer company affecting many organizations across various industries, including education, government, healthcare, and financial services.  At this time, we are not aware…