Category: Computing

  • Computer Security: Forwarding can spoil privacy

    Have you ever considered the risks for your privacy when you send an email?

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  • Computer security: Room at the top

    What do “Daniela.Wick@cern.ch”, “Kris.Avandal@cern.ch”, “Magnus.Fallbaum@cern.ch”, “Petra.Kosmanen@cern.ch”, “Ron.Waitmal@cern.ch” and “Stephanie.Porasky@cern.ch” have in common? No, they aren’t members of the personnel even if they pretend to have a CERN email address and their names sound similar to those of some of our colleagues in the CERN Computer Security team. No, they have no business with CERN at

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  • Computer Security: Banks and work

    Over the past few months, the Computer Security team and the Identity and Account Management team have started to roll out two-factor authentication (2FA)

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  • CERN welcomes INFN and IIT as new members of its IBM Quantum Network hub

    CERN welcomes INFN and IIT as new members of its IBM Quantum Network hub

    Two European research institutes have recently signed an agreement to become the latest members of CERN’s hub in the IBM Quantum Network.

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  • Computer Security: Thank you, folks!

    “Thank you, folks!” to all of you for helping us keep the Organization secure

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  • The on-site CERN openlab summer-student lecture programme is back

    The on-site CERN openlab summer-student lecture programme is back

    Tune into CERN openlab’s online computing lectures

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  • Computer Security: Dear summer students, welcome!

    In order to make your digital life as comfortable as possible, there are a few things you need to know

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  • Harnessing a supercomputer for ATLAS

    Harnessing a supercomputer for ATLAS

    The Vega supercomputer in Slovenia is the most recent HPC centre to process ATLAS experimental data

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  • Computer Security: Permanent chess

    Providing computer security for an organisation, company or university resembles playing a permanent game of chess

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  • Computer Security: Wrong link, wrong login, and BOOM

    Computer Security: Wrong link, wrong login, and BOOM

    Clicking on a malicious link or attachment, or disclosing your password in reply to a malignant email or on a fake and nasty CERN Single Sign-On page, are two major attack vectors for the evil side to infiltrate CERN

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