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Working Internationally for Libraries: How to write effective grant proposals

CILIP

Working Internationally for Libraries: How to write effective grant proposals. I had heard about the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) during my MSc, but I didn?t From her description, it sounded like an exceptional opportunity for learning what libraries all over the world are doing and for networking.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. Well, that’ll do for 2018. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.

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Jisc Futurist Q&A ? and 25 per cent off ILI Conference 2018

CILIP

The event takes place at London's Olympia centre on 16 and 17 October, with a day of workshops taking place on 15 October. My parents were very poor, but our town had an excellent public library that I practically moved into. s Near Future Library Symposium. Do our libraries need to recruit data scientists? cat up a tree?

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

The Last Watchdog

In March 2018, the city of Atlanta fell victim to a ransomware attack that shut down its computer network. Ananth, CEO of EventTracker , a Netsurion company, about this at Black Hat USA 2018. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. City agencies were unable to collect payment.

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Weekly podcast: Browsealoud cryptojacking, Bee Token phishing and Olympic attacks

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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Archive-It Partner News, September 2018

Archive-It

Archive-It 2018 Partner Meeting resources are now online. This Archive-It blog post by Samantha Fritz and Ian Milligan introduces the Archives Unleashed Cloud platform and resources that make it possible to explore web archives beyond Wayback, using text mines, link graphs, and more. National Library of Ireland. Community News.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. Back in 2018, they bought $50,000 in cryptocurrency and then locked it safely within their Trezor One wallet.