Tag: Computer Security
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Computer security: Room at the top
What do “Daniela.Wick@cern.ch”, “Kris.Avandal@cern.ch”, “Magnus.Fallbaum@cern.ch”, “Petra.Kosmanen@cern.ch”, “Ron.Waitmal@cern.ch” and “Stephanie.Porasky@cern.ch” have in common? No, they aren’t members of the personnel even if they pretend to have a CERN email address and their names sound similar to those of some of our colleagues in the CERN Computer Security team. No, they have no business with CERN at
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Computer Security: Banks and work
Over the past few months, the Computer Security team and the Identity and Account Management team have started to roll out two-factor authentication (2FA)
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Computer Security: Thank you, folks!
“Thank you, folks!” to all of you for helping us keep the Organization secure
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Computer Security: Dear summer students, welcome!
In order to make your digital life as comfortable as possible, there are a few things you need to know
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Computer Security: Permanent chess
Providing computer security for an organisation, company or university resembles playing a permanent game of chess
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Computer Security: Wrong link, wrong login, and BOOM
Clicking on a malicious link or attachment, or disclosing your password in reply to a malignant email or on a fake and nasty CERN Single Sign-On page, are two major attack vectors for the evil side to infiltrate CERN
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Computer Security: Catch me if you can
The Zebra Scientific Alliance has been compromised; hit hard by an attacker. Zebra’s IT experts and computer emergency response teams are on the prowl, trying to get to the bottom of the malicious deeds
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Computer Security: Spot the difference?
We have repeatedly published articles on “phishing” and the risks when browsing the web or opening emails. STOP – THINK – DON’T CLICK is still the mantra to follow
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Computer Security: Log in. Click. Be secure
The ultimate silver bullet to protect your account, computer and data is using a sufficiently complex and unique password combined with a second-factor token
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Computer Security: Email equals letters
When receiving an email, please don’t rely on the supposed sender. Rely on the overall package