Tag: Computer Security

  • Computer Security: Blind trust means money lost

    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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  • Computer Security: The better generation

    Computer Security: The better generation

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

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  • Computer Security: WhiteHat & Zebra trainings are back

    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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  • Computer Security: Pay per vulnerability

    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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  • Computer Security: Swipes vs PINs vs passwords vs you

    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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  • Computer Security: Day of the open firewall

    Computer Security: Day of the open firewall

    With ongoing vulnerability scans of CERN’s internet presence, the Computer Security team’s plans to perform penetration testing against selected targets visible to the internet

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  • Computer Security: Bingo walk-through

    Computer Security: Bingo walk-through

    Bravo to all those who participated in the Bull**** Bingo and sent us their solution. Some people were wondering why their responses were not correct… Good point, so let’s walk through that Bingo

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  • Computer Security: The hardship of three security paradigms

    Computer Security: The hardship of three security paradigms

    These paradigms “KISS ─ keep it simple, stupid” and “defence-in-depth” go hand in hand once we all jointly pick the right two of “cheap, convenient, secure”

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  • Your Google Workspace safely managed at CERN

    Your Google Workspace safely managed at CERN Written by: IT department — Many people at CERN use Google Docs for work-related activities. To provide a safe environment and avoid issues relating to data storage and ownership, CERN has purchased Google Workspace subscriptions. Thanks to this, it will now be possible to access CERN Google Docs,

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  • Computer Security: 300 computer security articles and counting

    Computer Security: 300 computer security articles and counting

    We begin the year by celebrating the 300th Bulletin article focusing on various computer-security-related topics

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