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Tackling tomorrow’s computing challenges today at the 2021 CERN openlab technical workshop
CERN openlab held its annual technical workshop on 9-11 March. Due to the pandemic, the 200 participants joined the workshop this year via Zoom
Computer Security: Your remote logins
As the very last line of defence, CERN employs automatic monitoring tools that will send a short notification for every login from a “new” location to the email address you have registered with CERN
CERN openlab technical workshop to kick off new three-year phase
CERN openlab’s annual technical workshop will take place on 9-11 March
Computer Security: Email senders – Pretence vs reality
About 70% of the emails received by CERN are of the malicious kind
Computer Security: When “123456” is insufficient
When you have confidential data to protect, a strong, long, complex and complicated password is a must
Donation of CERN computing equipment to Ghana
Donation of servers to the Takoradi Technical University in Ghana marks the seventeenth donation of CERN computing equipment
Computer Security: Too open even for academia?
We should make sure that we keep a healthy balance of publishing to the max, while keeping the confidential stuff only for those people who have a legitimate need to access it
Computer Security: One advantage of teleworking
The number of notifications of alleged copyright violations we received in 2020 was much lower than in previous years
Computer Security: CEO fraud
Have you ever heard of “CEO fraud”? It is a social engineering method to extract money from a company, playing on several psychological techniques to make people stop thinking consciously
Computer Security: CERN’s new first line of defence
Our new outer perimeter firewall is intended to boost performance and bandwidth as well as being a sophisticated means to better identify and protect against cyberattacks