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Computer Security: The truth lies in the URL
Like last year, every CERN staff member and user received a fake message posing as a malicious attempt to convince them to click on the embedded link...
Computer Security: Block the bad, grant the good access
Adhering to network protocol standards, any outgoing traffic initiated from the so-called “lower ports”, i.e. ports 0-1023 or using so-called “private” or “non-routable” IP addresses will be blocked
Computer Security: What do accelerators and pipelines have in common?
Ransomware attacks against enterprises and academia are not a new phenomenon...
Computer Security: About risks and threats
The cyber-risks can be split into four categories: operational, financial, legal and reputational
Software and computing for high-energy physics will take the stage at vCHEP2021
The CERN-organised 25th International Conference on Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (vCHEP2021) will take place online from 17 to 21 May 2021
Computer Security: Fancy dinner or burned pie?
Relying on external software packages comes with a risk. Successful attack scenarios have been executed in the past
Computer Security: Our findings, your problem
At CERN, you are the one primarily responsible for the computer security of all accounts, devices, websites, computing services and control systems you own and manage
CERN openlab talk: "The computing challenges faced by the high-energy physics community" – 25 March
Tackling tomorrow’s computing challenges today at the 2021 CERN openlab technical workshop
CERN openlab held its annual technical workshop on 9-11 March. Due to the pandemic, the 200 participants joined the workshop this year via Zoom
Computer Security: Your remote logins
As the very last line of defence, CERN employs automatic monitoring tools that will send a short notification for every login from a “new” location to the email address you have registered with CERN