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Computer security: CERN Secure Password Competition

We will reward the “best” and “most creative” passwords used at CERN

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22 March, 2018

Managing scientific data at the exascale with Rucio

The first Rucio community workshop, held at CERN, brought together computing experts from several experiments and organisations.

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09 March, 2018

Computer security: Malware, ransomware, doxware and the like

Your computer and smartphone are the centre of your life and people with malicious intent are seeking to compromise them

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Computing
08 March, 2018

Computer security: curiosity clicks the link

Only the curious click the link – and put their digital assets at risk

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Computing
22 February, 2018
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22 February, 2018

Computer security: take it seriously

In the physical world, we apply many safety measures automatically and repeatedly. How come we are more relaxed in the virtual world?

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12 February, 2018
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12 February, 2018

Coding has no gender

Showcasing female computer programmers from CERN and Fermilab to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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05 February, 2018
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05 February, 2018

Computer security: Spectre and Meltdown, just the beginning?

The beginning of the year has been dominated by two security vulnerabilities, known as Meltdown and Spectre

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Computing
23 January, 2018

Computer security: Computing power for professionals… only!

CERN’s OpenStack service provides you with enormous computing and storage resources to achieve your professional goals

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Computing
12 January, 2018

Breaking data records bit by bit

In October 2017 the CERN data centre broke its own record for data storage when it collected 12.3 petabytes of data over a single month

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14 December, 2017
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14 December, 2017

Why you got a new PDF reader

Software of high quality that is well programmed, with best-practice security principles in mind, is harder to exploit

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10 December, 2017
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10 December, 2017