News for students

In the coming weeks, ETH Zurich will start to roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) to the first users. Applications such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Adobe Creative Cloud, Zoom or the Web Center will now require a second login confirmation. Read on to find out what you need to do.

ETH is going to introduce multi-factor authentication (MFA) this autumn. From then on, applications such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Adobe Creative Cloud and Zoom will require a second factor in addition to the familiar ETH user name and password. Read on to find out how this will affect your daily work.

In case you notice something the next time you log in to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365: The ADFS login page will be adapted to the current corporate design of ETH Zurich. 

The ETH community may now use the Zoom videoconferencing application indefinitely for their work. ETH Zurich has negotiated a solution that incorporates the Canton of Zurich’s data protection recommendations and expands the usage options for ETH students, researchers and staff.

Do you enjoy working with digitized old photographs, maps, objects or manuscripts? Do you see digital data as a playground and an opportunity to test new technologies on historical material? Do you enjoy building new applications from data?

polybox, with its own free cloud storage, has been available to ETH members since more than a year ago. Recently, storage space has been considerably expanded from the initial 5 gigabytes to 50 gigabytes.

A big issue in the last two days was the vulnerability called “Heartbleed”.

The Neptun shops are now open until 3 March 2014. Neptun Demo Days in Zurich

ETH email users are currently receiving messages that attempt to trick the recipient into logging into a certain web page with their ETH username and password.

Worldwide there are about half a billion desktops and laptops running on Windows XP.

“Project Neptun” is a laptop program for all members of Swiss universities and institutions of higher education. Twice a year we give out recommendations for powerful high-quality laptops, tablets and accessories that have undergone careful testing and manufacturer-independent evaluations.

2,706 new Bachelor students have begun their undergraduate studies at ETH Zurich today.