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Undo your Mistakes!

Sometimes we make mistakes. Fortunately, sometimes we can undo our mistakes. Undo is a command or option in many computer or phone programs that undoes the last change made, reverting the data or program to its state before the change was made.

The opposite of undo is redo. The redo command undoes the last undo. Both undo and redo are available in almost all computer software today.

Below are some ways to undo some of your technology mistakes.

General Undo Functionality

Welcome to UT Austin

With the start of the Fall Semester, we would like to welcome all the new students to UT Austin!

Among the first things that students new to UT Austin should do, is getting their laptops and cellphones set up to gain access to campus IT resources.

You will want your cellphone configured for:

two-factor authentication (via Duo Mobile)
access to the campus WiFi network
access to your university email account

You will want your laptop configured for:

Out-Of-Office Message Security Issues

Many people love the idea of using an electronic out-of-office notification message when they are away from the office. These automated messages are great for letting colleagues, vendors, and friends know that you're out and won't be able to respond. Conveniently, you can add to your message the the start and end dates of your vacation, a way for people to get hold of you in an emergency, or how to contact your boss or co-worker for emergencies. Even maybe make your callers jealous by telling them exactly where you are and what you are doing. Sounds great, right?

Wrong!

Quick Tip for Pasting Content into UT Mail (Gmail)

I've been using UT Mail for a couple of years now, and one thing that has always bothered me is that copying and pasting content into UT Mail keeps the formatting of the original source. I've been suffering along with this by pasting the content in, selecting it, and then using the "remove formatting" (menu item, or CTRL + \) option: Not a productive or optimal way of doing things.

Recently, I discovered a somewhat simpler method of pasting in content without keeping the formatting from the content source. To remove the original formatting of the

New Phishing Defenses

Dateline Thursday, February 16, 2017:

On behalf of the ITS-Systems e-mail team I would like to share an update on their effort to move the campus e-mail defenses to the Cisco hosted platform so that we can properly leverage some much needed features.

ITS-Systems is in the process of adjusting some e-mail filtering workflow to better automate detection and notification. This change will give the ITS-Systems e-mail team a chance to perform final testing of the new Cisco hosted platform and will help the university get there faster — forecast in the next

How to Get and Use a Personal Digital Certificate

Digital certificates are commonly used for signing email messages, electronically signing documents, and encrypting e-mails. UT provides digital certificates free of charge to UT faculty and staff members via the web page at https://certificates.security.utexas.edu/.

Comprehensive documentation about these digital certificates can be found on the UT wiki at https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/digitalcertificates/Digital

How to Get and Use a Personal Digital Certificate

Digital certificates are commonly used for signing and/or encrypting e-mail messages and for electronically signing documents. UT provides digital certificates free of charge to UT faculty and staff members via the web page at https://certificates.security.utexas.edu/.

Comprehensive documentation about these digital certificates can be found on the UT wiki at https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/digitalcertificates/

Upcoming SHA-256 SSL Certificate Requirements

Most web sites, e-mail servers, database servers, and other internet services protect their data with SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificates to ensure the confidentiality and authenticity of the site and its data. An SSL certificate is a small data file that associates a cryptographic key to an organization or end user. Any time you use a browser to access a web site with the https:// protocol, the server is using an SSL certificate

Phishing

Phishing, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is a scam by which a user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly. Phishing can happen anytime and on any media including but not limited to email, phone calls, and social media. The articles over the next four weeks detail what to look out for when using your favorite devices; and if you have been a victim of a scam, what to do to stop the attack.

1) Email. No matter who you are, you will undoubtedly receive plenty of spam mail; and generally, it is easy to recognize spam

Web Central and UTS Retirements

In the summer of 2016, Information Technology Services (ITS) will retire Web Central, the legacy shared Web hosting and UNIX Timesharing System (UTS) email service at the university.

Web Central Websites

• All Web Central websites within the www.utexas.edu domain and virtual hosts must be migrated or archived by the end of June 2016

• If you have not yet set a deadline for migrating your websites or determined that they can be archived, please email web@utexas.edu

• The

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Undo your Mistakes!

General Undo Functionality

Welcome to UT Austin

Out-Of-Office Message Security Issues

Quick Tip for Pasting Content into UT Mail (Gmail)

New Phishing Defenses

How to Get and Use a Personal Digital Certificate

How to Get and Use a Personal Digital Certificate

Upcoming SHA-256 SSL Certificate Requirements

Phishing

Web Central and UTS Retirements

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