Computer Security team

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Computer Security: CERN has been phished again

At the end of June, CERN saw yet another phishing campaign against its staff and users

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09 July, 2020

Computer Security: Protecting the accelerator from remote evil

The IT department has started putting more and more privileged access routes to vital configuration services behind multi-factor authentication

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26 June, 2020

Computer Security: Videoconferencing pitfalls

After two months of teleworking, videoconferencing has become the ultimate tool for staying in touch with colleagues, friends and family: There is a plethora of potential tools and a plethora of pitfalls to catch us out

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11 June, 2020

Computer Security: Don’t answer me

Last year, the CERN Security Operations Centre detected 27 CERN hosts contacting so-called "tracking domains" used for reconnaissance and associated with national state-sponsored actors

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28 May, 2020
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28 May, 2020

Computer Security: Still on Windows 7? Say “bye bye” to your digital life

Support for Windows 7 ended in January 2020. Apart from for some customers who are paying an extra fee, Microsoft has stopped providing any assistance and security fixes for that version of their operating system

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26 May, 2020

Computer Security: Click and infect

With one click, your Windows system, your Macbook or your Linux installation can be gone...

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30 April, 2020
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30 April, 2020

Computer Security: When apps lead to mishaps

The responsibility is in your hands: always keep your smartphone up-to-date with the most recent version of your operating system

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23 April, 2020

Computer Security: Blackmailing Academia: back to pen and paper(?)

In recent months, a worrying trend has been emerging fast: targeted organisation-wide ransomware attacks

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02 April, 2020

Computer Security: Tele-protect

Teleworking and anxiety over COVID-19 make us more vulnerable to attacks, but there are solutions

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18 March, 2020
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18 March, 2020

Computer Security: Malicious Robots

“Stop – Think – Don’t Click” is one of the standard pieces of advice when you are asked to click on links to unsolicited, unknown or dubious webpages

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13 February, 2020
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13 February, 2020

Computer Security: Tunnel Madness

The "Allo Unblocker", "Allo Better Internet" and "Allo VPN" plug-ins have been explicitly banned from being used at CERN

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30 January, 2020
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30 January, 2020