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: Data Centre Nightmares

Computer security comes with clear mantras: “Defence-in-depth”, where security controls are applied at every level of the hardware and software stack, and “Keep it simple, stupid”, to avoid unnecessary complexity

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09 November, 2023
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09 November, 2023

Computer Security: Click’n’Boom

This summer, the IT department’s identity management team, the mail team and the Computer Security Team rolled out additional measures to protect your account and your mailbox

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11 October, 2023
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11 October, 2023

Computer Security: Avoiding salmonella in your code

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05 September, 2023
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05 September, 2023

Computer Security: Don’t get socially engineered

“Social engineering” is the art of manipulating you to perform actions you would not normally perform

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09 August, 2023

Computer Security: Fighting spam – the Boss Level

When it comes to protecting mailboxes against unwanted, unsolicited or even malicious emails, spam filtering is the first line of defence

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Computing
18 July, 2023

Computer Security: Dear summer students, welcome!

A warm welcome to the summer-student class of 2023! In order to make your digital life as comfortable as possible, here are a few things you need to know

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05 July, 2023

Computer Security: ChatNoSCRCY

Instead of your former internet buddy, the good old search engine, giving you reams of answers to your search, the new hype on the market is “ChatGPT”, which produces for you the one and only best answer out there

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20 June, 2023
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20 June, 2023

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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Computing
06 June, 2023

Computer security: A bank à la CERN

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23 May, 2023
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23 May, 2023

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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Computing
25 April, 2023