Tag: Computer Security
Everyone using CERN’s IT infrastructure is responsible for the security and protection of the computers they use, the operating systems they run, the applications they install, the programs they write and the data they store, with the assistance of the IT Department and the Computer Security Team.
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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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”