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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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Computing
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

Computer Security: Dear summer students, welcome!

A warm welcome to the summer-student class of 2024! In order to make your digital life as comfortable as possible, here are a few things you need to know

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Computing
26 June, 2024

Computer Security: Blind trust means money lost

This spring has seen two fraudulent transactions on the CERN Marketplace. In both cases, the fraudsters were advertising vacant apartments that they didn’t own

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Computing
11 June, 2024

Computer Security: The better generation

To all those fine folks out there who are interested in computer security, thank you!

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Computing
24 May, 2024
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24 May, 2024

Computer Security: WhiteHat & Zebra trainings are back

Hand-in-hand with the Computer Security team, you, as an excellent software developer and experienced programmer, have followed the right courses to put in place a secure software programming and code development life-cycle...

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Computing
15 May, 2024

Computer Security: Pay per vulnerability

The Computer Security team decided to engage with ethical hackers and launched a three (and a half) staged approach towards improving the security of CERN’s Internet presence and beyond

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24 April, 2024
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24 April, 2024

CERN donates computing equipment to South Africa

On 9 April 2024, a ceremony at CERN marked the donation of computing equipment to the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa

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Computing
16 April, 2024

The next-generation triggers for CERN detectors

The recently launched Next-Generation Triggers project is set to remarkably increase the efficiency, sensitivity and modelling of CERN experiments

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Computing
11 April, 2024

Computer Security: Swipes vs PINs vs passwords vs you

There are many different ways to unlock your smartphone: swiping patterns, PIN numbers, passwords, biometric fingerprints or face recognition. Some are more secure, some less so

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Computing
09 April, 2024