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Research and industry unite at 2022 CERN openlab Technical Workshop

CERN openlab brings together IT experts from research and industry to address the computing challenges posed by the LHC’s ambitious upgrade programme

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31 March, 2022

Computer Security: PhishMS

Clicking on the wrong malicious link or attachment, or disclosing your password in reply to a malicious 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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16 March, 2022
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16 March, 2022

Computer Security: Vigilance and calmness

Malicious actors are taking advantage of the current global political situation to pursue their criminal deeds

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24 February, 2022
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24 February, 2022

Computer Security: Time for a spring clean

Spring has arrived and we would like to encourage you to use your freshly gained energy to review your digital resources

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10 February, 2022
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10 February, 2022

7th Geneva Engage Awards honour Indico event platform

The open-source tool Indico, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has won CERN the “special award for effective and innovative online meetings”

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08 February, 2022

LHC experiments are stepping up their data processing game

While data processing demand is rocketing for LHC’s Run 3, the four large experiments are increasing their use of GPUs to improve their computing infrastructure

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03 February, 2022

Computer Security: Supply chain time bombs

Approximately five CERN-registered companies fell victim to a ransomware or extortion attack every single month

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27 January, 2022
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27 January, 2022

Three-year MALT project comes to a close

At the end of 2021, the three-year MALT project, working to rationalise the provision of software licences at CERN, ended

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17 January, 2022
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17 January, 2022

Computer security: Unwanted presents

Last year ended with a nasty surprise for the computer security community in particular and the IT community more generally...

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13 January, 2022
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13 January, 2022

Computer Security: Disaster for your crown jewels

You, as a CERN service manager, data taker, control system expert, trigger master, software custodian or document librarian, have a professional responsibility to ensure that your crown jewels are properly protected and backed up

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10 December, 2021