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ITS: Change password amid Heartbleed concerns

By Ryan Nickel | April 16, 2014

Information Technology Services warned students via email to change their passwords in light of the Heartbleed bug, one of the Internet’s most damaging vulnerabilities.The bug allows outside parties to access website users’ personal information —...

MyNIU faces technical difficulties Tuesday

By Jessica Wells and Ryan Felgenhauer | January 17, 2012

Ryan FelgenhauerCity EditorDeKALB | Some NIU students experienced problems accessing their class schedules through MyNIU Tuesday.Walter Czerniak, associate vice president of Information Technology Services said this is a campus-wide problem, but individual...

Wavering wireless internet

By Candice Beasley | March 1, 2011

Students may have noticed wireless Internet access is weaker, and sometimes unavailable, around campus. Cindy Phillips, director of Information Technology Services, said NIU realizes a fully wireless campus is not only valuable but the direction in which...