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  • Computer Security: Bingo walk-through

    Computer Security: Bingo walk-through

    Bravo to all those who participated in the Bull**** Bingo and sent us their solution. Some people were wondering why their responses were not correct… Good point, so let’s walk through that Bingo

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  • The Open Quantum Institute launches its pilot phase at CERN

    The Open Quantum Institute launches its pilot phase at CERN

    The three-year pilot will build on the efforts to date to help unleash the full power of quantum computing for the benefit of all

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  • Indico: 20 years of event managing

    Indico: 20 years of event managing

    The CERN-developed open source software, Indico, is being chosen by a growing number of users worldwide. As it celebrates 20 years, find out what new features are planned for 2024

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  • Computer Security: The hardship of three security paradigms

    Computer Security: The hardship of three security paradigms

    These paradigms “KISS ─ keep it simple, stupid” and “defence-in-depth” go hand in hand once we all jointly pick the right two of “cheap, convenient, secure”

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  • A new data centre at CERN

    A new data centre at CERN

    The new data centre complements the existing centre and will allow CERN to respond to the growing data-processing needs of the worldwide scientific community

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  • Your Google Workspace safely managed at CERN

    Your Google Workspace safely managed at CERN Written by: IT department — Many people at CERN use Google Docs for work-related activities. To provide a safe environment and avoid issues relating to data storage and ownership, CERN has purchased Google Workspace subscriptions. Thanks to this, it will now be possible to access CERN Google Docs,

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  • Computer Security: Bull**** Bingo

    Computer Security: Bull**** Bingo

    There are many mantras and claims floating around about cybersecurity. Some of them leave no room for doubt, like “defence in depth”, which suggests deploying protective means at every level of the hardware and software stack, or “KISS ─ keep it simple, stupid” to avoid over-complication and too many deviations from the “standard” cybersecurity system.

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  • Computer Security: 300 computer security articles and counting

    Computer Security: 300 computer security articles and counting

    We begin the year by celebrating the 300th Bulletin article focusing on various computer-security-related topics

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  • CERN software to become central hub for EU research

    CERN software to become central hub for EU research

    Over the last ten years, CERN-born Zenodo has evolved to store ever more scientific data. Today, a new project is set to ensure Zenodo’s position as a prime repository for EU research data

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  • Computer Security: Hits are coming closer

    Computer Security: Hits are coming closer

    Until recently, universities had been attacked only very occasionally. But the last year has also seen major attacks against accelerators and telescopes

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