Category: Computing
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Computer Security: CERN, beautified
The Computer Security Office is planning to improve the security posture of CERN’s web presence, making it a bit more beautiful than before
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White Rabbit meets quantum entanglement
The CERN-born open-source timing technology is being tested for use in quantum networks and secure quantum communication
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Computer Security: “ClickFix”, a nasty copy & paste
“ClickFixing”, or the art of luring you into executing a very simple string of copy/paste-like tasks to install malware on your computer
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Computer Security: Block ads, stay clean
The main ways to get your computer infected these days are clicking on the wrong link, accessing the wrong website and/or installing the wrong software…
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CERN donates computing equipment to Egypt
The donation was celebrated during a visit to CERN by the Egyptian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research on 30 July
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Computer Security: easily applied
To make your life easier, the Computer Security Office has compiled four shortlists of “Security Principles”
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Computer Security: Spam protection for phone calls
Unsolicited marketing and fraudulent calls are unfortunately very common nowadays. Although total protection is impossible, the CERN Telephony Service has implemented several mechanisms to reduce such annoying calls to all CERN telephone numbers
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Computer Security: Internet of Damn Insecure Stupid Things
Here are some examples of the Internet of Damn Insecure Stupid Things that were deployed (or intended to be) at CERN. Be prepared to shake your head
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Computer Security: TN v3.0
The worlds of IT and control systems have changed drastically thanks to virtualisation, containers, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, large language models… CERN needs to evolve towards Technical Network v3.0
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The LHCb collaboration donates computing equipment to Ukraine
The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK) plans to use the equipment to train students and to contribute to the local analysis of LHCb physics data