Category: Computing

  • Computer Security: Dear summer students, welcome!

    Computer Security: Dear summer students, welcome!

    A warm welcome to the summer-student class of 2024! In order to make your digital life as comfortable as possible, here are a few things you need to know

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  • Computer Security: Blind trust means money lost

    Computer Security: Blind trust means money lost

    This spring has seen two fraudulent transactions on the CERN Marketplace. In both cases, the fraudsters were advertising vacant apartments that they didn’t own

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  • Computer Security: The better generation

    Computer Security: The better generation

    To all those fine folks out there who are interested in computer security, thank you!

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  • Computer Security: WhiteHat & Zebra trainings are back

    Computer Security: WhiteHat & Zebra trainings are back

    Hand-in-hand with the Computer Security team, you, as an excellent software developer and experienced programmer, have followed the right courses to put in place a secure software programming and code development life-cycle…

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  • Computer Security: Pay per vulnerability

    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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  • IT: interactions, innovations, impact

    In the logical sequence from collisions to a scientific breakthrough, computing comes last. But definitely not least

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  • CERN donates computing equipment to South Africa

    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 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

    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

    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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