CERN School of Computing on Security 2022
CERN school of computing will take place on June 19-25th 2022 in Split and will focus on security, more specifically on the theme of Security of research computing infrastructures. The main three tracks will cover lectures and hands-on exercises on Protection and...
GÉANT IT Forensics for System Administrators
The 8th and last lecture in the GÉANT module "IT Forensics for System Administrators" is coming up on 27th of January 2022. The lecture, entitled IT Forensics for System Admins – Acquisition of Other Evidence, held by our EGI CSIRT member Toby Dussa and his colleague...
EGI CSIRT’s first virtual F2F meeting in 2022
EGI CSIRT's first virtual F2F meeting in 2022 is taking place this and next week. We will discuss the new incident response procedure, security policies, trust and identity, software vulnerabilities, and risk assessment. We will start planning and preparing some...
Critical vulnerability in log4j library
A critical zero-day vulnerability in log4j has been discovered (known by the number CVE-2021-44228) with CVSSv3 score 10 out of 10. JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related...
EGI CSIRT Security Challenge
EGI CSIRT site security contacts challenge was run on the 16th of November 2021. During the campaign, the EGI CSIRT sent an email with a unique reaction link to all site security contacts. The purpose of this type of challenge is to check the sites’ ability to respond...
New GÉANT learning module on IT forensics
GÉANT module, entitled IT Forensics for System Administrators encompasses 8 webinars on different aspects of IT forensics. The webinars start in November and end in January 2022. Some of the lectures will be presented by our EGI CSIRT member, Toby Tussa, an expert in...
