Category: Computing
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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
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!
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
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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How CERN IT keeps up with the data deluge
At CERN we are used to dealing with a deluge of data, but the numerical value behind the word “deluge” has significantly evolved over the years
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Computer security: security workouts
Just like your summer exercise regime, computer security requires permanent training to stay fit and healthy
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Computer Security: Audited for the better
Summer 2023 was an intense season for CERN computer security…
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Computer Security: Security NIMBYs
If we want to protect CERN and to have a decent level of security, we cannot avoid deploying a certain set of computer security measures… and they all come with inconveniences
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Digital archaeology: new LEP data now available to all
Retrieving and preserving access to data from experiments that ran in the 90s is a complex task carried out by passionate experts in the IT department
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Computer Security: Don’t print naked
If you’re interested in what’s going on at CERN, in professional projects and plans, or in private problems and parties, hanging out at one of CERN’s printers is a very effective approach…