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CERN openlab technical workshop to kick off new three-year phase

CERN openlab’s annual technical workshop will take place on 9-11 March

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Computing
01 March, 2021
Computing
Announcement
01 March, 2021

Computer Security: Email senders – Pretence vs reality

About 70% of the emails received by CERN are of the malicious kind

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Computing
25 February, 2021

Computer Security: When “123456” is insufficient

When you have confidential data to protect, a strong, long, complex and complicated password is a must

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Computing
11 February, 2021

Donation of CERN computing equipment to Ghana

Donation of servers to the Takoradi Technical University in Ghana marks the seventeenth donation of CERN computing equipment

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Computing
04 February, 2021
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04 February, 2021

Computer Security: Too open even for academia?

We should make sure that we keep a healthy balance of publishing to the max, while keeping the confidential stuff only for those people who have a legitimate need to access it

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Computing
28 January, 2021

Computer Security: One advantage of teleworking

The number of notifications of alleged copyright violations we received in 2020 was much lower than in previous years

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Computing
13 January, 2021

Computer Security: CEO fraud

Have you ever heard of “CEO fraud”? It is a social engineering method to extract money from a company, playing on several psychological techniques to make people stop thinking consciously

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Computing
17 December, 2020
Computing
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17 December, 2020

Computer Security: CERN’s new first line of defence

Our new outer perimeter firewall is intended to boost performance and bandwidth as well as being a sophisticated means to better identify and protect against cyberattacks

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Computing
04 December, 2020

ATLAS releases open software used to filter LHC collisions

The new collection of 200 additional software packages make most ATLAS software open and reinforces ATLAS’s commitment to open science

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Computing
20 November, 2020