October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween! You may be reveling in watching horror movies or telling ghost stories today, but nothing is scarier than having your data or identity stolen. ITS has some scary stories of our own in the form of common cybersecurity myths.   

October 26, 2022

With the holiday season fast approaching, many WCM faculty, staff, and students may be traveling internationally for business or leisure. Traveling abroad exposes your devices to unknown environments that could compromise your data security. If you’re planning to work while traveling, healthcare data is especially valuable to malicious outsiders.

October 26, 2022

With Weill Cornell Medicine focused on promoting employee wellness, ITS will be implementing a new feature in institutional Outlook accounts to automatically shorten meetings by five minutes. This will allow employees additional time between meetings, or an opportunity to take a few minutes for themselves before starting the next task.

What do you need to do?

Nothing. ITS will be implementing this change on Nov. 1. At that point, any meetings you create will automatically show a shortened duration for the meeting end time:

October 22, 2022

If you’ve ever been on a road trip with small children, you may be familiar with them incessantly nagging “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” until you break down and respond.   

October 21, 2022

Apple just announced its newest operating system for Mac desktops and laptops, macOS Ventura, launching on Monday, Oct. 24. ITS has tested and confirmed that all our WCM-supported applications work with Ventura.   

October 17, 2022

Cornell University’s Center for Advanced Computing together with Weill Cornell Medicine's Scientific Computing Unit, ITS, and Clinical and Translational Science Center are pleased to offer a new Scientific Computing Training Series. 

Training sessions are open to all workforce members and students of Cornell University, WCM, WCM-Q, and Cornell Tech. They are free of charge.

For full course descriptions and prerequisites visit: https://its.weill.cornell.edu/scientific-computing-training-series 

October 15, 2022

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure we have the resources you need to maintain your security online. Throughout October, we’ll be sending you tips on protecting your information and avoiding malicious attempts to extract your personal data. See all of our 2022 tips here: 

October 14, 2022

The term social engineering refers to types of cyber attack that exploit one of the more vulnerable aspects of an organization: its humans. An organization can implement the most sophisticated security software available, but hackers know that the easiest way in is sometimes through you.

October 14, 2022

Are you ready for changing leaves, pumpkin spice, and all things fall? If so, here is a way you can get into the fall "spirit" through a themed journey highlighting the history of the medical center! The virtual tour will be held on Tuesday, October 25 from 11 am - 12 pm EDT with archivists Chiyong (Tali) Han and Nicole Milano. 

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