Tag: Computer Security

  • Computer Security: How to avoid being disturbed during your holidays

    Be sure to store all your professional data in central locations

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  • Data privacy: emails = postcards

    Data privacy: emails = postcards

    An easy way of reducing security risks with personal data is to use CERNBox, regardless of whether you’re sending data to recipients inside or outside CERN

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  • Computer Security: Push & pain

    With the demise and tighter regulation of cookies as a result of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), more and more websites are moving to alternative methods to get at your data

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  • Computer Security: Forwarding can spoil privacy

    Have you ever considered the risks for your privacy when you send an email?

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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

    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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