Category: Computing
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Computer Security: One click to many
More senior colleagues might still recall the regular “clicking” campaigns that were intended to raise security awareness within the Organization among staff and users. With the roll-out of two-factor authentication, such campaigns were dropped. However, the world continues to turn and novel functionality and novel attack vectors try to circumvent our protections. And they have
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Computer Security: Welcome, summer students!
A warm welcome to the summer-student class of 2026! We’re glad that you made it to CERN! We offer a packed agenda for the next two months: challenging lectures; interesting projects to tackle with your team; and lots of time to take a great big gulp of CERN’s academic freedom, spirit and creativity! In order
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Powering the future of data science at CERN
CERN data centres are being transformed in preparation for HiLumi LHC
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Q&A with CERN’s Chief Information Officer (CIO)
From 2026, CERN’s senior management includes the new role of CIO – Enrica Porcari answers questions about what this means for the Organization
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Computer Security: Copied, committed, KO
The old world of reusable IT components has been under threat for a while. While it was appreciated, efficient and effective to reuse software components written by others, attacks abusing this kind of “supply chain” are on the rise. For instance, rest-client in 2019, plutov-slack-client in 2020, atomicwrites in 2022, xzutils in 2024, chalk, “Shai-Hulud”
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CERN leads project to make EU scientific data more accessible
Sharing research data openly is transforming science, but it comes with challenges. Since 2021, EU-funded projects have been required to make their data FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The EU Open Research Repository (EOR Repository) was created through the HORIZON-ZEN project with this in mind and provides a dedicated space on Zenodo for data
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New Wi-Fi network at CERN
The CERN-Campus SSID (Service Set Identifier) is a new Wi-Fi network available across CERN. It will replace the current CERN SSID as the primary wireless network. The CERN-Campus network uses WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) security to provide both authentication and data encryption. To connect, each device needs a unique login and password pair, which you can generate through the LanDB page. Unlike the
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Computer Security: Wipe no tears
Remember that feeling where your heart skips a beat? Or two? Or many? Where your breath gets caught in your throat? “Époustouflant” as the French say, but not in a good way? The moment when you can’t find your smartphone, even after looking everywhere? The moment on the tram when you recall that you didn’t
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Computer Security: Agentic loss of control
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) brings many opportunities but also comes with risks (see our last-but-one Bulletin article). Writing better software and code (or not). Having better answers (or just better lies). Creating a fancier and more beautiful CV (which might not be you anymore). Producing cool videos of your last vacation for your
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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