Category: Computing
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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
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European project to make web search more open and ethical
The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium, which includes CERN, has released a pilot of the first federated, pan-European Open Web Index, paving the way for a new generation of unbiased and ethical search engines
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Computer Security: 5 ways to remotely connect to CERN
With the roll-out of 2-factor authentication for the CERN Single Sign-On now concluded, the next step required by the 2023 CERN cybersecurity audit is to streamline all methods for remotely connecting to CERN
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Computer Security: Allô? International response here
International collaboration and incident response is key. Because an incident in the Antipodes might directly affect the IT services at CERN. And has done so
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Computer Security: SecDevOps tips
It should be common knowledge among software developers that writing software with as few weaknesses, vulnerabilities and flaws as possible is the most cost-efficient solution