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Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform

Schneier on Security

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. The vulnerability is not part of the applications themselves but of the underlying Electron framework -- ­and that vulnerability allows malicious activities to be hidden within processes that appear to be benign.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Implied herein is a cloud computing model that ARMA (2016) defines as “A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

Today’s post is mainly in response to “ Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives ,” written by Danielle Tcholakian who in turn seems to have been inspired by an article in the Columbia Journalism Review. Tcholakian’s article provoked a strong reaction from me – sharp, keen frustration.

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Take advantage of CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to prevent automated attacks, protect against abuse, improve user experience, ensure authenticity of user-generated data, and ensure that only legitimate user interactions are processed. What Are the Types of Application Security Testing?

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Y2K: The New Year’s Disaster That Wasn’t

Unwritten Record

Governments and businesses around the world proactively prepared their computer systems to seamlessly to the year 2000 rather than travel back to 1900. Since its creation in 1941, Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi has specialized in technical training in avionics and electronics. Is it time for a ferret unit?

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Reflections on the Libraries? Responses to Coronavirus, Resource Discovery and the Future

CILIP

Reflections on the Libraries? In my workplace, physical library services have stopped completely, with no readers and no staff permitted to access buildings. I run the discovery service SOLO for the Bodleian Libraries, one of the parts of the modern library which is most electronic in nature. Keep Oxford Reading?