Author Archives: Tina Riedel

Like so many of our peer institutions, Tufts continues to be the target of multiple phishing schemes.  Please remain vigilant! Phishing can take to form of hoaxes, fraudulent email or websites designed to appear as legitimate offers or services. The … Continue reading →

Tufts faculty and staff can get an early start this summer getting comfortable with Trunk, the new online learning environment powered by Sakai and developed for the Tufts community by UIT. Slated for an August 1st roll-out, Trunk will replace … Continue reading →

It took a year of hard work and planning with a phenomenal cross-institutional team, but for Gina Siesing, Director, Educational & Scholarly Technology Services, chairing the NERCOMP 2011 Annual Conference was very worthwhile. “It’s a phenomenally vibrant community of colleagues … Continue reading →

As you may know, there is an unpleasant piece of malware called Conficker or Downadup, which has been in the wild, targeting Microsoft Windows computers since October 2008. Security researchers are now reporting that infected machines may collectively go into … Continue reading →

In a world where “web-enabled” is the order of the day, the ability to perform automated technical security assessments of applications that hold Tufts most critical and sensitive data is a necessity. To address this security challenge, UIT Information Security … Continue reading →

UIT Administrative Computing recently completed a successful upgrade of the PeopleSoft Human Resources System to version 9.0. Some of the benefits and additional functionality are readily visible to users of the system, such as the redesigned Self Service user interface, … Continue reading →