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Computer Security: Block ads, stay clean

The main ways to get your computer infected these days are clicking on the wrong link, accessing the wrong website and/or installing the wrong software...

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03 September, 2025
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03 September, 2025

CERN donates computing equipment to Egypt

The donation was celebrated during a visit to CERN by the Egyptian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research on 30 July

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19 August, 2025
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19 August, 2025

Computer Security: easily applied

To make your life easier, the Computer Security Office has compiled four shortlists of “Security Principles”

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12 August, 2025
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12 August, 2025

Computer Security: Spam protection for phone calls

Unsolicited marketing and fraudulent calls are unfortunately very common nowadays. Although total protection is impossible, the CERN Telephony Service has implemented several mechanisms to reduce such annoying calls to all CERN telephone numbers

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Computing
30 July, 2025

Computer Security: Internet of Damn Insecure Stupid Things

Here are some examples of the Internet of Damn Insecure Stupid Things that were deployed (or intended to be) at CERN. Be prepared to shake your head

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Computing
04 July, 2025

A new group management system is here

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Computing
20 June, 2025
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20 June, 2025

Computer Security: TN v3.0

The worlds of IT and control systems have changed drastically thanks to virtualisation, containers, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, large language models... CERN needs to evolve towards Technical Network v3.0

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19 June, 2025
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19 June, 2025

The LHCb collaboration donates computing equipment to Ukraine

The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK) plans to use the equipment to train students and to contribute to the local analysis of LHCb physics data

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19 June, 2025

WordPress now available for CERN websites

CERN’s new official web content management system prioritises responsiveness and accessibility alongside easy content creation

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16 June, 2025
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16 June, 2025

European project to make web search more open and ethical

The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium, which includes CERN, has released a pilot of the first federated, pan-European Open Web Index, paving the way for a new generation of unbiased and ethical search engines

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Computing
06 June, 2025