Slurm vulnerability (CVE-2025-43904)

New Slurm releases 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11 include a fix for a security vulnerability CVE-2025-43904, where an improper permission handling for Coordinators in Slurm’s accounting system could allow a Coordinator to grant administrative privileges to a...

EGI CSIRT at TCSC on Security 2025

From 6 to 12 April, the EGI CSIRT participated in the third Thematic CERN School of Computing on Security. Held in Abingdon, the school brought together security enthusiasts from several countries around the world who, as part of their jobs, need to ensure the...

Hands-on Incident Response and Forensics workshop

The CERN Computer Security Team is organising a Hands-on Incident Response and Forensics workshop aimed at sysadmins and security professionals involved in the WLCG computing grid or the wider research and education (R&E) community who wish to gain practical...

Thematic CERN School of Computing on Security 2025

The EGI CSIRT will participate in the next Thematic CERN School of Computing on Security, to be held in Abingdon from 6 to 12 April 2025. The theme of the school is “Security of Research Computing Infrastructures”. Participants will learn about all phases...

EGI CSIRT at ISGC 2025

This week the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC 2025) takes place in Taipei. Sven Gabriel is holding a security workshop entitled “Security Aspects of Federated Identity Management” followed by a talk on risk management: “An IT...