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Computer Security: Reflections on paying ransom
Paying is the easiest way to eventually recover the data and re-establish compromised computing services, but hold on...
Computer Security: Dear summer students, welcome!
In order to make your digital life as comfortable as possible, there are a few things you need to know
Computer Security: The truth lies in the URL
Like last year, every CERN staff member and user received a fake message posing as a malicious attempt to convince them to click on the embedded link...
Computer Security: Block the bad, grant the good access
Adhering to network protocol standards, any outgoing traffic initiated from the so-called “lower ports”, i.e. ports 0-1023 or using so-called “private” or “non-routable” IP addresses will be blocked
Computer Security: What do accelerators and pipelines have in common?
Ransomware attacks against enterprises and academia are not a new phenomenon...
Computer Security: About risks and threats
The cyber-risks can be split into four categories: operational, financial, legal and reputational
Software and computing for high-energy physics will take the stage at vCHEP2021
The CERN-organised 25th International Conference on Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (vCHEP2021) will take place online from 17 to 21 May 2021
Computer Security: Fancy dinner or burned pie?
Relying on external software packages comes with a risk. Successful attack scenarios have been executed in the past
Computer Security: Our findings, your problem
At CERN, you are the one primarily responsible for the computer security of all accounts, devices, websites, computing services and control systems you own and manage