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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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New Pro-Ocean crypto-miner targets Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs

Security Affairs

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.”

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access

CILIP

Maintaining the status quo for public libraries ? Here he speaks to Rob Mackinlay about why not challenging the methods used by publishers to protect their content will damage not only libraries, but also threatens research and innovation. ?Publishers He sees licensing as an existential threat to libraries, saying: ?I?m

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Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical

Security Affairs

The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year. The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable.

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

During 2016, 39 states were hacked. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. If they can do that by stealing personally identifiable information or any of the other valuable things from a government institution, whether it’s a library or a court system, they’ll do just that.”.

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Technology sets the pace of change in content delivery and management

CILIP

ConTech MD Clive Snell says that is why library and information mangers should be looking at the possibilities now. For Library and Information Professionals in their early or mid-careers the ways in which content is delivered will change dramatically over the next decades. ?AI

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Archive-It and Archives Unleashed join forces to scale research use of web archives

Archive-It

Archived web data and collections are increasingly important to scholarly practice, especially to those scholars interested in data mining and computational approaches to analyzing large sets of data, text, and records from the web. by the Archive-It team.