Nowadays, people use PCs, mobile devices to perform many activities on the internet, such as webmail, online shopping, e-banking, etc. Private information is frequently being transmitted across the internet. If the se sensitive data are not transferred securely, they can easily be captured or stolen ...

To further enhance the website hosting environment of the university, an upgrade of the central web server (www.ncm2.xyz) had been completed on 16th Oct 2013. The central web server (www.ncm2.xyz) was previously served by Sun Solaris and Apache. After the websites were migrated to a new ...

The CityU Search was powered by the public Google Search (a service hosted by Google) since 2005. After Google announced the availability of their enterprise solution for Asia-Pacific region in late 2009, the Google Search was replaced by the Google Search Appliance (a CityU locally hosted service) ...

Introduction The central web hosting service is set up to provide a consolidated, fully monitored and managed environment for hosting departmental and project websites for all departments and offices. The hardware and software offered by the central web service are maintained and supported by the ...

Numerous websites and applications have been deployed on the Central IIS production Web Server, namely the www6.cityu.edu.hk. Without proper User Acceptance Testing (UAT), site owners cannot guarantee the new sites are delivering the expected quality or the new applications may even cause ...

The central web hosting service has been set up for many years to provide a consolidated, fully monitored and managed environment for hosting departmental web sites and project web sites. The hardware and the software of the central web service are maintained and supported by the Computing Services ...

It is always recommended that a strong password should be used to resist guessing and brute-force attacks and lower the risk of security breach. An account with a weak password, such as a word in dictionary, can easily be broken by a hacker. He/She may then read, modify or delete all your files and ...

There is tons of information over the internet. It is important to provide a powerful searching tool for visitors to search for the information they want when they come across our websites. There are over 330,000 web pages in CityU. Without a good search engine, it is really hard for a visitor to ...

In the old days, when we tried to make the video experience realistic and enjoyable, panning the camera back and forth between the presenter and the projection screen was unavoidable. This inevitably degraded the quality of video capture. Luckily, we have tools available now to make presentation ...

The website ( http://literacy.cityu.edu.hk) of the Student Computer Literacy Programme (SCLP) has been revamped this summer to better serve the needs of students and meet the requirements of today’s web standard. The following web design guidelines have been adopted: Simple and Clear Navigation A ...