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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
ATLAS releases open software used to filter LHC collisions
The new collection of 200 additional software packages make most ATLAS software open and reinforces ATLAS’s commitment to open science
Computer Security: Scanning for problems
At CERN, the responsibility for keeping your digital house in order lies in the first instance with you