Enterprise Software Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Many applications bump into a stack of similar challenges, like providing an intuitive and consistent user interface (UI), handling or rendering large data sets, allowing seamless data integration, and communicating with other systems using APIs. But with so many out there, how can you know which is the best Angular component library?

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-42793 , can give unauthenticated attackers remote code execution (RCE) abilities without requiring user input by exploiting an authentication bypass flaw. The problem: Arm has issued a security alert on CVE-2023-4211 , an actively exploited vulnerability in its Mali GPU drivers.

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CILIP

APRIL 17, 2023

Future Libraries - invitation to tender CILIP is looking to commission a collaborative research and development project focused on re-imagining England’s public library sector for the future and funded by Arts Council England. The core of this project is to undertake a collaborative research and development project to build the new.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Future Literacy and Libraries We are living and working in an age of uncertainty and change. Libraries are at the forefront of this change, and new funding models, policies, and services are required for the sector to adapt to these changes, that are already impacting on the daily lives of library and information users in countless ways.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

After a year that saw massive ransomware attacks and open cyber warfare, the biggest question in cybersecurity for 2023 will likely be how much of those attack techniques get commoditized and weaponized. 2023, he predicted, “will not be any easier when it comes to keeping users’ data safe and private.”

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CILIP

JUNE 27, 2023

Facet Catalogue 2023 – get your free copy today! The Facet Catalogue 2023 showcases a wide range of bestsellers and new titles from the world of librarianship, information management, archives and records management, data, and heritage. The book looks at the background context of migration and barriers migrants face.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Libraries, critical thinking and the war on truth – what lies ahead in 2024 Nick Poole, Chief Executive, CILIP will leave CILIP at the end of March 2024. As a profession, our responsibility is not to ‘see both sides’ of the debate about volunteerism and cuts to library services. So where do we go from here?”

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CILIP

MARCH 28, 2023

Action, Inspiration and Insight at Inaugural Green Libraries Conference Last week CILIP’s first Green Libraries Conference took place and showcased over a year of sustainable and attainable green projects and initiatives, at the Wellcome Collection in London.

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CILIP

JUNE 14, 2023

Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now The libraries and information sector has a highly experienced and predominantly female workforce, with 40 per cent of staff having more than 20 years of work experience, according to data gathered for the Workforce Mapping 2023 survey.

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CILIP

MAY 15, 2023

Public libraries are vital national network - CILIP Cymru Wales makes representation to Welsh Senedd “Libraries serve a manifold role. Along with Nicola Pitman, Chair of the Society of Chief Librarians, Amy argued that the new Welsh Library Public Standards (WPLS) framework will need to measure quality not just quantity of service.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Below is the list of vulnerabilities addressed by the vendor: CVE-2022-1471 (CVSS score: 9.8) – SnakeYAML library RCE Vulnerability that impacts multiple products. CVE-2023-22522 (CVSS score: 9.0) – RCE Vulnerability In Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. and later.

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CILIP

JULY 4, 2023

Larger organisations, where data already plays a significant role in their work and service provision, have been using AI to enhance decision-making around staff allocation, as well as enhanced search and access. AI creates a complex set of issues for information and library professionals to come to terms with.

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CILIP

JUNE 13, 2023

Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

On Friday, OpenAI revealed that the recent exposure of users’ personal information and chat titles in its chatbot service was caused by a bug in the Redis open-source library. On March 20, 2023, several ChatGPT users started reporting seeing conversation histories of other users appearing in their accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

CISA Adds Chrome & Perl Library Bugs to Active Exploitation List Type of attack: Arbitrary (ACE) and remote code execution (RCE) attacks that exploit data import/export operations in Excel-related functions in web applications and denial of service (DOS) crashes or ACE/RCE related to heap buffer overflows in Chrome. Versions 0.65

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As it has become tradition , the team creating the looks back and shares the personal highlights of the year 2023. IBM introduced watsonx as the AI and data platform built for business. Now, on to our personal highlights of 2023… Frederic AI – Last year in December, the buzz surrounding AI was palpable.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

On December 21, network and email cybersecurity firm Barracuda started releasing security updates to address a zero-day, tracked as CVE-2023-7102 , in Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances. “Spreadsheet::ParseExcel is an open source library used by the Amavis virus scanner within the ESG appliance.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The two issues are: CVE-2023-6345 Google Skia Integer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2023-49103 ownCloud graphapi Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2023-6345 – The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity integer overflow in Skia. CISA orders federal agencies to fix these vulnerabilities by December 21, 2023.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 5, 2023

Records and Data. This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and co-sponsored with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to promote electronic records management in Texas government. About e-Records 2023 For the Win! Records and Data is the theme of this year’s conference.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Their main purpose is to protect applications from unauthorized access, data breaches, and malicious attacks. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Researchers published PoC exploits for CVE-2023-4911 vulnerability (aka Looney Tunables) impacting most popular Linux distributions. The vulnerability CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score 7.8) is a buffer overflow issue that resides in the GNU C Library’s dynamic loader ld.so 2023-10-03: Coordinated Release Date (17:00 UTC). .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2024

DinodasRAT (aka XDealer ) is written in C++ and supports a broad range of capabilities to spy on users and steal sensitive data from a target’s system. ESET first discovered a new Linux version of DinodasRAT in October 2023, but experts believe it has been active since 2022. The C2 domain is hard-coded into the binary.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Please join us to learn about CARTA, a collaborative team of art libraries building collections of web archives related to art history and contemporary art practice. The survey will remain open until November 22, 2023 and should take approximately 30 minutes to complete. We hope to see you there!

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2023

Atlassian addressed three vulnerabilities in its Confluence Server, Data Center, and Bamboo Data Center products that can lead to remote code execution. Atlassian has addressed three critical and high severity vulnerabilities impacting the Confluence Server, Data Center, and Bamboo Data Center products.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security. Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data. CVE-2023-6318 permits privilege escalation to get root access.

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CILIP

APRIL 15, 2024

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". LibTech” becomes “EdTech”.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

The fix: Access to fix data is currently limited. Google announced an update to the desktop stable channel to 120.0.6099.129 on December 20, 2023, which was expected to roll out over the coming days and weeks. The fix: Barracuda deployed a patch on December 22, 2023, to fix the exploited ESG appliances.

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Archive-It

JUNE 14, 2023

Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. Robert Benson ) Register here to join Archive-It’s annual meeting of web archiving partners on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at the DC Public Library. We’re seeking a Program Officer to join the Archiving & Data Services team at the Internet Archive.

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Archive-It

JUNE 14, 2023

Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. Robert Benson ) Register here to join Archive-It’s annual meeting of web archiving partners on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at the DC Public Library. We’re seeking a Program Officer to join the Archiving & Data Services team at the Internet Archive.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

CVE-2023-26083 CVE-2021-29256 CVE-2023-2136 The CVE-2023-26083 is an Arm Mali GPU kernel driver information disclosure vulnerability that the US CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog in April 2023. The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-12.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In this post , we interview CARTA members Roger Lawson (Executive Librarian, National Gallery of Art), Megan Sallabedra (Digital Collection Development Librarian, Getty Research Institute), and Heather Slania (Director of Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art) to learn more about their participation in the program.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2024

On Apple devices equipped with these protections, such attackers are still unable to perform key post-exploitation techniques such as injecting malicious code into other processes, or modifying kernel code or sensitive kernel data. This was mitigated as CVE-2023-38606. The Safari exploit uses CVE-2023-32435 to execute a shellcode.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 16, 2023

Summer Roundup The Archive-It team, along with other Archiving and Data Services team members, have had a busy few months. 2023 Archive-It Partner Meeting recap – About 30 Archive-It partners and friends gathered at the D.C Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Check out our event recaps to see what we’ve been up to.

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Archive-It

JULY 19, 2023

Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. Memorial Library in Washington D.C. Fantastic Futures Call for Proposals Fantastic Futures, the annual international conference on AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (ai4lam,) will take place November 15-17, 2023 at Internet Archive Canada Headquarters in Vancouver, BC.

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Archive-It

JULY 19, 2023

Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. Memorial Library in Washington D.C. Fantastic Futures Call for Proposals Fantastic Futures, the annual international conference on AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (ai4lam,) will take place November 15-17, 2023 at Internet Archive Canada Headquarters in Vancouver, BC.

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