#2 - January 2021
30 YEARS OF HISTORY FOR RESTENA'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY
2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the Restena Foundation, the result of the RESTENA research project launched in 1989 by the Ministry of Education. On this occasion, the Restena Foundation retraced its history, which, beyond Luxembourg research and education, played a central role in the emergence of the internet in Luxembourg. The key stages in the development of the Restena Foundation, the evolution of the research and education networks in Luxembourg and Europe as well as the internet are to be discovered in the publication "RESTENA: the story of an infrastructure", available on request. Read more
.LU IS GROWING WITH SHORT NAMES
Tuesday 15 December 2020 is the culmination of the progressive opening of .lu domain names with one and two characters launched at the end of August 2020. Existing registration limits are abolished, thus expanding the range of possibilities for communicating with the Luxembourg .lu extension. Read more
SOCIAL ENGINEERING: SPYING BEFORE ATTACKING
With GÉANT association and on the occasion of the European Cyber Security Month, the Restena-CSIRT shares some advice on the "art" of social engineering, more specifically the technique of manipulating people that any sector of activity may one day be confronted with. Read more
COMPUTER SECURITY: UNDERSTAND AND (RE)ACT
A new series of publications designed to raise awareness among people working in the research or education sector in Luxembourg has been published. The first three tip sheets provide information about cyberattacks, passwords, spam and phishing. Read more
Upcoming Event
Data Privacy Day, 28 January 2021
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