Category: Computing
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CERN’s KiCad component library now open source
The cornerstone of open source philosophy is that the recipients of technology should have access to all of its building blocks, such as software code, schematics for electronics and mechanical designs. This lets everyone study, modify and redistribute the technology to others. Since releasing the World Wide Web software under an open source licence in
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Computer Security: Tigers and cats against crawling mAIce
IT has for some time been transitioning into a new era where artificial intelligence (AI) takes over more and more tasks and, eventually, responsibility. There are few of us left who don’t use the plethora of ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude and the like. Performance gain and increased efficiency are announced to be everywhere and might lead
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Computer Security: Food for your brain
“Food for your brain” is therefore the greatest nutrition for your intellect besides a good morning coffee and an Italian-native Hawaiian pizza. Here is the menu provided by the Computer Security Office
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Computer Security: [Pen|Pan|Pant]testing
Following the successful conclusion of the 2023 cybersecurity audit, 2026 will see another series of vulnerability assessments, penetration tests (“pentests”) and cybersecurity reviews
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Computer Security: Privacy vs security
In CERN’s academic environment, cutting-edge research relies on an open yet to-be-protected digital ecosystem
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Computer Security: Phished
In mid-November, CERN was subjected to another phishing attack that tried to lure people to open a malicious link and provide their CERN credentials on a fake CERN Single Sign-On page
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Computer Security: A final spurt for improved networking
2026 will bring improved and more granular network filtering to the Technical Network (TN) and, later, between the Campus and data centre networks, introducing a pair of redundant firewalls for each
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Computer Security: A final dash to protect your account
We already discussed mandatory requirements for IT service managers in a past issue of the Bulletin. This time we present upcoming changes to passwords and improvements to two-factor authentication
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Computer Security: A final marathon for service managers
The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN: 2-factor authentication, new spam filtering, email quarantining, anti-spoofing protection, 2FA protection for LXPLUS and the CERN Windows Terminal Servers, among others
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CERN hits one exabyte of stored experimental data from the LHC
One million terabytes of experimental data from the LHC have now been sent to the CERN storage system