Category: Computing
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Computer Security: Pay per vulnerability
The Computer Security team decided to engage with ethical hackers and launched a three (and a half) staged approach towards improving the security of CERN’s Internet presence and beyond
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CERN donates computing equipment to South Africa
On 9 April 2024, a ceremony at CERN marked the donation of computing equipment to the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa
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The next-generation triggers for CERN detectors
The recently launched Next-Generation Triggers project is set to remarkably increase the efficiency, sensitivity and modelling of CERN experiments
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Computer Security: Swipes vs PINs vs passwords vs you
There are many different ways to unlock your smartphone: swiping patterns, PIN numbers, passwords, biometric fingerprints or face recognition. Some are more secure, some less so
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World Wide Web at 35
From Tim Berners-Lee’s first proposal in March 1989 to today, the World Wide Web’s impact on society has been profound
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Computer Security: Day of the open firewall
With ongoing vulnerability scans of CERN’s internet presence, the Computer Security team’s plans to perform penetration testing against selected targets visible to the internet
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CERN rewarded for its contributions to cloud computing
The award recognises CERN’s innovative use of cloud native technologies to address future scientific and operational challenges
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Farewell to the Alcatel phone exchange
Following the migration to software-based phones, CERN phones are now fully virtual and the Alcatel phone exchange has been disconnected
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Computer Security: Bingo walk-through
Bravo to all those who participated in the Bull**** Bingo and sent us their solution. Some people were wondering why their responses were not correct… Good point, so let’s walk through that Bingo