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UC Tech News
November 28, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, Information Security, UCOP
Online shopping continues to grow in popularity. This past Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day ever in the US, and broke records in mobile sales. Unfortunately, the ease and convenience of online shopping makes the holiday season…
Read more about Protect Yourself while Shopping Online
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November 28, 2018
All ArticlesEvents, Procurement, UCOP, webinar
Learn from Cisco professionals about the new UC contract with EPlus for Cisco procurement and about UC’s formal strategic relationship with Cisco. You may think of routing and switching as the core Cisco technologies. Well, over the past few years…
Read more about Save Dec. 12 for Webinar: UC’s Cisco Agreement – More than Routing and Switching
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November 14, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesiGlobal, ISSM, Jeané Blunt, Services for International Students and Scholars, SISS, Sunapsis, UC Davis, UCD
By Jeané Blunt. When most people think about UC Davis – agriculture, animal science, and even Gunrock the mustang may come to mind. They likely don’t realize that UC Davis is home to more than 10,000 international students and scholars…
Read more about UC Davis Streamlines Services for International Students and Scholars
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November 14, 2018
All ArticlesAccessibility, Closed captioning, Todd McGill, UC Irvine, UCI, Youtube
By Todd McGill. Released via GitHub on July 27, 2018, the YouTube Caption Audit is a distributable web application that reports uncaptioned public videos for a given YouTube channel. Surprisingly, this is not something that can be done within the…
Read more about YouTube Caption Audit Tool Now Available from UCI
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November 14, 2018
All ArticlesProcurement, tariffs, Thomas Trappler, UCOP
By Thomas Trappler. In March 2018, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a report detailing its investigation of China’s trade practices related to intellectual property. To address issues surfaced in the report, the USTR subsequently announced additional tariffs…
Read more about Tariffs Impact Pricing under Some UC Systemwide IT Agreements
UC Tech News
November 7, 2018
All Articles, Feature Articlesagriculture, AgTech, computer science, Lindcove Research and Extension Center, LREC, SmartFarm, Susan Rambo, technology, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Susan Rambo. Computer science researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, are using the internet of things to prove that smart farming can be a farm implement as basic as the tractor and plough. The husband and wife…
Read more about Wireless Smart Farming to Keep Frost Away From Citrus
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November 7, 2018
All Articlescollaboration, Events, Tom Andriola, UC Davis, UCCSC
By Tom Andriola. The results are in – this year’s UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) was a big success. I use the word “big” intentionally. With 636 attendees, this was the largest in the 36 year history of the event….
Read more about UCCSC by the Numbers
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November 7, 2018
All ArticlesProcess Palooza, Shannon Prior, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Shannon Prior. On December 12, hundreds of innovators and change champions will converge at the University of California, San Diego, for the second annual Process Palooza conference. Launched in 2017, the event is a chance to compete, learn, and…
Read more about Process Palooza Open to Everyone in UC System
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October 31, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesCybersecurity, Halloween, Information Security, Julia Chen, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, NCSAM, UCOP, Yvonne Tevis
By Yvonne Tevis. It was a stormy night on the Dark Web. But on a sunny UC campus one morning, Jack Tern was plowing through email. The ‘replies-to-all’ were driving him batty. So much work piling up, meetings to arrange, invoices…
Read more about Money, Mayhem, Mortality: A Cyber Tale
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October 31, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, Information Security, MFA, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, NCSAM, UCOP
By Timo Papandreopoulos and Julie Goldstein. Passwords are the keys to most devices and almost everything you do online. Unfortunately, even the best passwords can get hacked, stolen, or unintentionally shared. Fortunately, there is an easy way to add another…
Read more about Lock Down Your Login with MFA