Category: Computing
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Computer Security: Your ticket to improvement
The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN. Some of these were not the most user-friendly for the CERN community, as this is not in the inherent nature of “security”, but we tried our best
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Computer Security: Password evolutions
Following the successful deployment of two-factor authentication (2FA) to more than 42 000 CERN accounts, one final step to ensure full compliance with the recommendations of the 2023 audit on CERN’s cybersecurity remains
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When failure is good news
The software managing CERN’s compute workload has handled a massive stress test, far beyond normal operating conditions, designed to simulate the needs of the future
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Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): mitigations
We’ve seen in the past two Bulletins that control system cybersecurity is the black sheep of IT, a hard-to-change tanker’s course. Still, with significant daily damage of 250 000 USD for ALMA, the costs of falling to a cyberattack can no longer be ignored
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Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): black swans and convergence
While eagerly expected by experts, the first dominant incident on control systems reported by the media was the Stuxnet attack of 2010 against the Iranian nuclear programme allegedly conducted by some secret services
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Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): nothing has changed?
20 years ago, control systems used to be stand-alone systems, usually decoupled from the larger enterprise networks, using their own network cabling infrastructures and programming languages dedicated to control systems. But no more…
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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…