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Take part in climate action through CERN’s online Webfest challenge 2022

The Webfest – CERN’s annual hackathon based on open web technologies – will celebrate its tenth anniversary this year.

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24 June, 2022
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24 June, 2022

Harnessing a supercomputer for ATLAS

The Vega supercomputer in Slovenia is the most recent HPC centre to process ATLAS experimental data

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16 June, 2022
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16 June, 2022

Computer Security: Permanent chess

Providing computer security for an organisation, company or university resembles playing a permanent game of chess

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Computing
10 June, 2022
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10 June, 2022

Computer Security: Wrong link, wrong login, and BOOM

Clicking on a malicious link or attachment, or disclosing your password in reply to a malignant email or on a fake and nasty CERN Single Sign-On page, are two major attack vectors for the evil side to infiltrate CERN

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26 May, 2022

Computer Security: Catch me if you can

The Zebra Scientific Alliance has been compromised; hit hard by an attacker. Zebra’s IT experts and computer emergency response teams are on the prowl, trying to get to the bottom of the malicious deeds

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Computing
12 May, 2022
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12 May, 2022

Computer Security: Spot the difference?

We have repeatedly published articles on “phishing” and the risks when browsing the web or opening emails. STOP – THINK – DON’T CLICK is still the mantra to follow

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Computing
10 May, 2022
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10 May, 2022

Computer Security: Log in. Click. Be secure

The ultimate silver bullet to protect your account, computer and data is using a sufficiently complex and unique password combined with a second-factor token

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Computing
25 April, 2022
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25 April, 2022

Building work for CERN’s new data centre in Prévessin begins

On Friday, 22 April, a ceremony was held to mark the beginning of construction of CERN’s new energy-efficient data centre

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Computing
22 April, 2022

Computer Security: Email equals letters

When receiving an email, please don’t rely on the supposed sender. Rely on the overall package

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Computing
05 April, 2022
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05 April, 2022

CERN joins a first-of-its-kind global celebration of World Quantum Day

To mark the first anniversary of World Quantum Day, CERN is organising a scientific symposium comprising a series of talks highlighting different areas of the quantum research field

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05 April, 2022
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05 April, 2022