Équipe de la sécurité informatique

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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

Computer Security: A second factor to the rescue

The IT department is deploying the use of so-called “two-factor authentication”

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16 January, 2020

Computer Security: The New Single Sign-On

New Year 2020 brings a new look (and functionality) to the Single Sign-On page

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11 December, 2019
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11 December, 2019

Computer Security: Why the Internet is not Christmas

On the Internet, you must be vigilant and careful when being presented with links, posts, URLs, e-mails, webpages or attachments

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28 November, 2019

Computer Security: Don’t print naked

Too many people are still printing confidential documents without caring that they might be read by third parties hanging around

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14 November, 2019
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14 November, 2019

Computer Security: When CERN.CH is not CERN…

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

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31 October, 2019
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31 October, 2019

Computer Security: A new twist for those who rely on external software

If you take advantage of the plethora of software snippets, code excerpts, libraries and the like circulating on the Internet, don’t forget that there’s a risk: is the code safe? Bug-free? Maintained? And free of any malicious components?

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16 October, 2019

Computer Security: What do apartments and computers have in common?

For the protection of your digital assets, photos, films, documents, banking access, social media, etc., make sure that you apply cyber-security best practices

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03 October, 2019