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Computer Security: Happy Birthday, Virus!

35 years ago, on 9 October 1989, the CERN Computer Security team issued for the first time a “Computer Virus Warning to all users of IBM Compatible PCs”

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02 October, 2024
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02 October, 2024

Computer Security: AI attacks

While AI – coming with its own computer security problems – might make daily life easier, it will also open up a new series of attack vectors

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17 September, 2024
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17 September, 2024

How CERN IT keeps up with the data deluge

At CERN we are used to dealing with a deluge of data, but the numerical value behind the word “deluge” has significantly evolved over the years

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04 September, 2024
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04 September, 2024

Computer security: security workouts

Just like your summer exercise regime, computer security requires permanent training to stay fit and healthy

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30 August, 2024
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30 August, 2024

CERN70: Where the Web was born…

Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web

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20 August, 2024
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20 August, 2024

Computer Security: Audited for the better

Summer 2023 was an intense season for CERN computer security...

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16 August, 2024
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16 August, 2024
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09 August, 2024

Computer Security: Security NIMBYs

If we want to protect CERN and to have a decent level of security, we cannot avoid deploying a certain set of computer security measures… and they all come with inconveniences

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30 July, 2024
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30 July, 2024

Digital archaeology: new LEP data now available to all

Retrieving and preserving access to data from experiments that ran in the 90s is a complex task carried out by passionate experts in the IT department

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15 July, 2024

Computer Security: Don’t print naked

If you’re interested in what’s going on at CERN, in professional projects and plans, or in private problems and parties, hanging out at one of CERN’s printers is a very effective approach...

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08 July, 2024
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08 July, 2024