Tag: CERN community
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Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)
Klaus Bätzner(1936 – 2022) — It was with great sadness that we recently learned that our friend and former colleague Klaus Bätzner passed away in December 2022. Klaus devoted his career to CERN. Among the many projects he worked on were the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and increasing the energy of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS)
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Computer security: A bank à la CERN
When doing cybersecurity, protective measures must be adapted to your environment and needs. For a bank, it’s obvious that protecting physical and digital money, and confidential data about customers, is of the utmost importance. Hence, security is tight, well controlled and comes with lots of restrictions, giving attackers a very small attack surface to penetrate
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Computer security: CEO fraud, second attempt
Members of a CERN board were recently targeted by so-called “CEO fraud”, following the same format as the incident that occurred at the end of 2020. CEO fraud is a social engineering method to extract money from a company, playing on several psychological techniques to prevent people thinking consciously: Like in 2020, this “new” fraud
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Yolande Agnosini (1933 – 2023)
Yolande Agnosini(1933 – 2023) — Yolande Beatrix Agnosini, née Soriano, passed away on Saturday, 8 April at the age of 89. She is now reunited with her husband, Fausto Agnosini, who also worked at CERN. Yolande spent her entire career at CERN. Following a stint at the computer card punching service, she followed a course
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Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)
Giorgio Brianti(1930 – 2023) — Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. He played a major role in the success of CERN and in particular the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) project, and his legacy lives on across the whole of the accelerator



