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With one click, your Windows system, your Macbook or your Linux installation can be gone...
The responsibility is in your hands: always keep your smartphone up-to-date with the most recent version of your operating system
In recent months, a worrying trend has been emerging fast: targeted organisation-wide ransomware attacks
Teleworking and anxiety over COVID-19 make us more vulnerable to attacks, but there are solutions
“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
The "Allo Unblocker", "Allo Better Internet" and "Allo VPN" plug-ins have been explicitly banned from being used at CERN
The IT department is deploying the use of so-called “two-factor authentication”
New Year 2020 brings a new look (and functionality) to the Single Sign-On page
On the Internet, you must be vigilant and careful when being presented with links, posts, URLs, e-mails, webpages or attachments
Too many people are still printing confidential documents without caring that they might be read by third parties hanging around
Just like on the envelope of a normal hand-written letter, any sender address can be specified. “CERN.CH” can easily be spoofed so that an e-mail looks like it comes from someone at CERN, but actually doesn’t