Category: Computing

  • Computer Security: Are you a team player?

    Computer Security: Are you a team player?

    Today, we stand on the shoulders of giants, of giant teams, of collaborations, and only jointly can we reach our (research) goals

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  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Quantum

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Quantum

    As we approach 2025, the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, quantum technologies come into focus as a key area of scientific advancement that holds great potential for the future of research and innovation

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  • Computer Security: A security balancing act

    Computer Security: A security balancing act

    CERN must be protected against any kind of successful large-scale attack, while maintaining a balance between security, academic freedom and the use of accelerators and experiments

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  • Computer Security: Free croissants for everyone

    Computer Security: Free croissants for everyone

    We strongly encourage everyone to lock their computer with a password-protected screen lock when leaving the device unattended

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  • Computer Security: Security Rules revised

    Computer Security: Security Rules revised

    All owners of computing resources connected to or provided to them by CERN’s computing facilities are ultimately responsible for the compliance of their actions and their resources with these Rules

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  • Computer Security: 2FA – 2 Fine Astuces

    Computer Security: 2FA – 2 Fine Astuces

    To make your life under 2FA a bit easier, however, here are 2 Fine Astuces (tips) to improve 2FA usability

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  • CERN teams up with Luxembourg and the World Food Programme to tackle global hunger

    CERN teams up with Luxembourg and the World Food Programme to tackle global hunger

    The new partnership aims to leverage state-of-the-art AI technology to speed up progress towards a world with zero hunger

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  • Computer Security: Bug Bounty begins

    Computer Security: Bug Bounty begins

    The Bug Bounty programme, or how to create the necessary incentives to invite hackers to start hacking CERN…

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  • Computer Security: Happy Birthday, Virus!

    Computer Security: Happy Birthday, Virus!

    35 years ago, on 9 October 1989, the CERN Computer Security team issued for the first time a “Computer Virus Warning to all users of IBM Compatible PCs”

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  • Computer Security: AI attacks

    Computer Security: AI attacks

    While AI – coming with its own computer security problems – might make daily life easier, it will also open up a new series of attack vectors

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