Network & Information Technology Support Services

25 Jan 2010
What happened?
Starting around the 11 Jan 2010, we received a couple of complaints mentioning missing emails - emails/replies expected were not received by users. Following these complaints we diagnosed the problem as a bug in the spam filtering software. The bug caused a high score in one of the filter checks (a score […]

Several department/lab web servers on campus provide email access via a web mail interface installed on the system. In many cases, we have noticed that such web sites are being accessed using plain http rather than secure http.
Now, why is this a problem? One requires to login to the web mail access to use it. […]

17 Sep 2009
Starting 2 PM, today, user authentication for web access to the Internet will be enabled. This will require all users to use the userid, password combination that they have received in the last couple of weeks and subsequently validated.
Upon attempting to access the web via your browsers, you will be asked for your […]

User authentication for accessing the Internet browsing via proxies is ready for deployment. A test set up is ready and available for users to try out the service and give us feedback.  Included here is a how-to you could read if you want to test out the services. You need to use your userid and password […]

User authentication for accessing the Internet browsing via proxies is ready for deployment. A test set up is ready and available for users to try out the service and give us feedback.  Included here is a how-to you could read if you want to test out the services. You need to use your WLAN access id […]