A lot of people try to protect the content of their appointments by marking them as «Private». Be careful, though, if rights have been assigned to a calendar. Individual clients ignore privately marked appointments.
A working group of the IT security
delegates has completely revised the security information for IT
Services. The simplicity of the website is deceptive. To
put it simply: Nothing about this website has been left to chance.
What has been replaced on the Website?
Up until now, when an ETH member
searched for information about IT security in the search field on the ETH
website, the results were, shall we say, lacking. There was a page for IT
Services online but the content was randomly selected and disorganised. As a
result, the site was not able to fill the need for reliable information.
Emails are a practical and useful means
of communication. However, they are often used by fraudsters to steal
confidential data such as passwords or bank information. These so-called
phishing emails pose a real risk. Not all of them can be automatically detected
and stopped by technical email filters. This also means that phishing emails
cannot be prevented from appearing in your mailboxes now and again.
ETH Zurich’s new resources and financial
platform was successfully put into production on 9 January 2019.
refine = renewing the REsources and FINance platform of ETH Zurich
This important step marks the achievement
of the refine project’s most important milestone. This success has, of course,
been achieved thanks to effort of everyone involved. Congratulations to the
more than 100 people in many ETH organisational units and several external
specialists. For IT Services, it was the areas of basic technologies,
development and porting of existing products, data migration and process
design. This post will elaborate on the roll of IT Services.
On the 11th march it was that time of year again – the ETH Hönggerberg opened its doors for 2 days to bring school classes closer to computer science and to show them impressions from the everyday life of a student at the ETH Zurich. And it was a huge success!
For my
professional training I prefer to attend software developer conferences, and
among these the EuroPython conference has grown close to my heart. What sets
this conference apart is the fact that it is community-driven and therefore
offers a range of presentations and events rarely seen at more commercial
developer conferences. I remember a keynote from the EuroPython Conference
2017, in which the speaker from Nigeria talked about the lively Python
developer scene in sub-Saharan countries. I learned from this keynote that Django
Girls courses have been organized in several countries (Django is a
Python-based web framework) and national Python conferences have been held in
Zimbabwe, South Africa and Nigeria.