Kategorie: ‘Support, Services & Updates’
Social Engineering: Deception in Cyberspace
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In the world of cyber security, it’s not just technology that plays a crucial role. People are an equally important factor, and this is where social engineering comes in. This sophisticated method specifically exploits human behaviour and weaknesses to gain access to sensitive data or cause damage.
Sustainable Email Use: CO2 Impact
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After highlighting the environmental impact of emails in a previous article, we now take a closer look at the digital carbon footprint of digital activities, including email communication. In the previous article, we emphasized that although emails may seem more environmentally friendly than traditional letters at first glance, they still leave their own ecological footprint. We gave some tips on how to make your email traffic more environmentally friendly. But what is the actual environmental impact?
Successful SharePoint Migration
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The IT Center has been offering the fee-based SharePoint Shared Service for many years. The service addresses RWTH institutions and is a collaboration platform based on Microsoft SharePoint. It is operated on infrastructures in the IT Center. In addition, in-house developments are also created on this basis, which fall into the area of “process support for research and teaching”.
SharePoint has now been updated to a new version. We have summarized for you what this means and what has changed as a result.
Changed Opening Hours During Christmas and New Year
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Christmas is just around the corner and the year is ending. The IT Center will therefore have adjusted opening hours between Christmas and the beginning of January. Read the rest of this entry »
Changed Opening Hours – December 8, 2023
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Due to an internal event, the IT Center will only be open for you during limited opening hours on Friday, December 8, 2023. Read the rest of this entry »
Internship Abroad in Malta
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Our apprentice, Yasin Kalem, who has already given us an insight into DiMa apprenticeship in the past, was able to complete an internship abroad in Malta as part of the apprenticeship and Erasmus+ program. He spent a total of five weeks on the Maltese islands, where he worked as a “Business Development Manager” at the esports academy “Level Academy Malta”.
He has summarized everything he experienced there for us.
Warning About Free Outlook Apps
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Attention! Microsoft has released new free apps for Outlook. However, the new Outlook apps store your login data (login name and password) in the Microsoft cloud. Emails are also transmitted to Microsoft without your consent.
Therefore, business use is prohibited for information security and data protection reasons. We also strongly advise against private use.
License-based Outlook programs, for example from Microsoft Office, and the Outlook Web App (OWA), which can be opened via a browser, are not affected. These may continue to be used. There are currently no security concerns, as these applications communicate directly with the RWTH Aachen University mail servers and no data is transferred to the Microsoft cloud.
We have put together a short FAQ for you on what you should know about this.
WestAI: The AI Center in Western Germany
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving technological progress at an unprecedented speed, revolutionizing numerous industries and opening up enormous potential for the automation of intelligent tasks or the development of completely new products and services. While the introduction of AI is progressing rapidly in other parts of the world, Germany is still lagging far behind in both business and science, even though AI is considered a relevant topic by most. This is due to a lack of access to hardware resources and adequate services to support users, combined with a research gap in the development of scalable methods and systems.
Discover with us: The diversity of the IT Center!
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Hello knowledge explorers!
There is so much to explore in the almost infinite worlds of the IT Center. We want to share with you exactly what fascinates you the most on our IT Center blog.
Changing Shared User Data When Logging in to Services
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Currently you are being asked for your consent when logging in to services.
Why is this happening?
IDM.nrw is a project of the Digital University NRW. The aim is to lighten the effort for universities to access and provide services to each other throughout NRW.
