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2017’s summer students, welcome to CERN! Here is a small plea from the CERN Computer Security team to you and your supervisor
The Computer Security Team publishes its Digital Privacy Statement
For the sake of software quality, the IT department provides you and your clients with a few simple tools to save precious time and cerebral pain
Mid-May has seen a big weekend for the cyber-threat landscape, as "WannaCry" came onto the scene with a bang
Computer security is a moving target and defensive measures need continual adaptations and adjustments
“The Higgs boson does not exist!” stated an e-mail recently sent to many of our colleagues...
Browsing the World Wide Web is not as easy as it seems…
We would now like to step up a level and introduce haptic feedback for unsecure user actions
If you want to listen to music or watch movies at CERN, make sure that you own the proper rights to do so
If you happen to use one of CERN’s public PCs, please stick to the rules
Malicious PDFs, links or URLs embedded in websites can take advantage of the inherent vulnerabilities in your operating system
The Internet-of-Things is known to be unsecure, unprotected and full of vulnerabilities