Tag: Computer Security
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Computer Security: Zebra has been hacked. Again.
After the serious compromise of 2022, the Zebra Scientific Alliance has been compromised again – hit hard by an attacker
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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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Computer Security: The symbiosis of your life
Following a surge of technological innovation starting at the end of the twentieth century, the twenty-first century has brought a major socio-biological evolution that not even Charles Darwin would have dreamed of: the homo sapiens sapiens digitalensis
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Computer security: Is this password yours?
Unless you employ the ultimate silver bullet to protect your account and greatly reduce the consequences of a compromised password, namely two-factor authentication, watch out!
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Computer Security: Upcoming password considerations
While the CERN Computer Security team does its best to identify exposed and disclosed passwords and to figure out anomalies in your login patterns, the time has come to improve even further
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Computer Security: Protective intelligence
For the most efficient protection of CERN – to detect an attack as effectively as possible, to be alert, prepared and ready – it’s essential to gather as much information as possible about the intentions of the malicious evil
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Computer Security: Winter season, virus time – one free pill for your device
As you take measures to protect your physical well-being, maybe it’s also a good moment to think about your digital well-being?
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Computer Security: How AI are you?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone’s mind, and CERN is no exception
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Computer Security: Animal or plant?
We have been informed that it’s not only computer mice that pose a threat to your digital well-being. No, trackpads do, too