Category: Computing
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Research and industry unite at 2022 CERN openlab Technical Workshop
CERN openlab brings together IT experts from research and industry to address the computing challenges posed by the LHC’s ambitious upgrade programme
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Computer Security: PhishMS
Clicking on the wrong malicious link or attachment, or disclosing your password in reply to a malicious 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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Computer Security: Vigilance and calmness
Malicious actors are taking advantage of the current global political situation to pursue their criminal deeds
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Computer Security: Time for a spring clean
Spring has arrived and we would like to encourage you to use your freshly gained energy to review your digital resources
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7th Geneva Engage Awards honour Indico event platform
The open-source tool Indico, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has won CERN the “special award for effective and innovative online meetings”
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LHC experiments are stepping up their data processing game
While data processing demand is rocketing for LHC’s Run 3, the four large experiments are increasing their use of GPUs to improve their computing infrastructure
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Computer Security: Supply chain time bombs
Approximately five CERN-registered companies fell victim to a ransomware or extortion attack every single month
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Three-year MALT project comes to a close
At the end of 2021, the three-year MALT project, working to rationalise the provision of software licences at CERN, ended
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Computer security: Unwanted presents
Last year ended with a nasty surprise for the computer security community in particular and the IT community more generally…
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Computer Security: Disaster for your crown jewels
You, as a CERN service manager, data taker, control system expert, trigger master, software custodian or document librarian, have a professional responsibility to ensure that your crown jewels are properly protected and backed up