CILIP

JUNE 23, 2023

We will raise these concerns in the strongest possible terms with the IFLA Governing Board. Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) 23rd June 2023 Published: 14 June 2023 More from Information Professional News In depth Interview Insight This reporting is funded by CILIP members.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2023, the researchers observed a surge in zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party components and libraries that can impact all products that use them. The Chinese government made the headlines because government-linked APT groups exploited 12 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023, which marks a notable increase from seven in 2022.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk CILIP is the leading industry voice championing and representing library and information professionals across the United Kingdom, guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services, and as a Charity to act in the public good.

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CILIP

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sanderson Report Shows that libraries are part of something bigger UK media, leading writers, including two former Children's Laureates, and library advocates including CILIP CEO, Nick Poole came out in force to defend public and school libraries in response to Baroness Sanderson’s Review of Libraries.

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The Schedule

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Records Management Annual Section Meeting, July 2024! Jessika Drmacich, Chair, former 2021 Chair: Jessika, Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist at Williams College Special Collections (Libraries), leads Williams’ campus-wide Records Management Program, web archiving, and digital preservation.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 14, 2022

£135,000 funding for Anti-racist library collections in Wales. CILIP Cymru Wales on behalf of CILIP has just secured £135,000 funding from the Welsh Government. This has been awarded to support the delivery of the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan. Phase 3 - April-September 2024. 14 December 2022.

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CILIP

APRIL 8, 2024

CILIP Appoints Louis Coiffait-Gunn as new CEO The CILIP Board has appointed Louis Coiffait-Gunn as the charity's new CEO, and Louis will be starting in the new role on Wednesday 8th May 2024. His work in a range of settings including government, thinktanks, professional associations, universities, and the press.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2024

Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. As such, it would not be detected at process load time.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Capital Health operates two hospitals in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania region: Regional Medical Center in Trenton and Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell. Data breached: >10 million records. HealthEC LLC breached, almost 4.5 Information relating to nearly 4.5 Source (New) Legal USA Yes 310,297 Bit24.cash

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

January 3, 2024 52% of Exposed SSH Servers Vulnerable to Terrapin Attack Type of attack: Secure Shell (SSH) vulnerability enables prefix truncation attacks. Government agencies have until January 23 to mitigate the issues or stop using affected products. No organization should remain vulnerable six months after vendors issue patches!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2024

ESET researchers reported that a Windows version of DinodasRAT was used in attacks against government entities in Guyana. In March 2024, Trend Micro researchers uncovered a sophisticated campaign conducted by a threat actor tracked as Earth Krahang while investigating the activity of China-linked APT Earth Lusca. executable_name].mu”.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Ukrainian national faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in Zeus, IcedID malware schemes CISA: Cisco ASA/FTD bug CVE-2020-3259 exploited in ransomware attacks CISA adds Microsoft Exchange and Cisco ASA and FTD bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog US gov offers a reward of up to $10M for info on ALPHV/Blackcat gang leaders U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Threat actors target government entities in the Middle East with a new backdoor dubbed CR4T as part of an operation tracked as DuneQuixote. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered the DuneQuixote campaign in February 2024, but they believe the activity may have been active since 2023. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In January 2024, it identified more potential victims, and has now written to inform them that their personal data may have been compromised in the incident. Recent victims of Rhysida include the British Library and Sony’s Insomniac Games. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight More than 6 million accounts compromised from streaming service MovieBoxPro MovieBoxPro, a streaming service of “questionable legality”, suffered a data scraping incident on 15 April 2024, according to Have I Been Pwned. Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data included names, ID card numbers, phone numbers, emails, salaries and personal photographs. The incident is one of a series of major data breaches in Thailand in recent months that have been analysed by the security company Resecurity. Data breached: 19,718,687 records. TB Cole, Cole, Easley & Sciba Source New Legal USA Yes 1.5

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CILIP

JANUARY 15, 2024

CILIP welcomes new members to Board of Trustees Portraits from top left: Jonathan Waterfield, Cornelia Andersson, Corin Peacock, Surash Patel, Andrew Praeter, Kate Robinson Five new members will join the CILIP Board on 25 January 2024, with a new Chair and a presidential team reshuffle.

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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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CILIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Apprenticeship Stories: Tom Saye Tom Saye As we celebrate National Apprentice Week, Tom Saye, Library Assistant, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, shares his experience of how an apprenticeship opened the door to a new career. The more I looked into it, the more I came to realise that a job within a library would suit me.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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CILIP

MARCH 4, 2024

This article is featured on the AI hub AI policy is set to become the new GDPR, and the release of the UK government’s AI Regulation White Paper this month is accelerating government action on building a legal framework for AI regulation.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 18, 2024

by the Community Programs team Community Webs members and the Community Programs team gathered in the spring of last year for a virtual meeting, Future Webs , to reflect on the success and achievements of the program and chart next steps in 2024 and beyond.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

“In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users’ data was constantly on hackers’ radars,” said NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis. 2023, he predicted, “will not be any easier when it comes to keeping users’ data safe and private.”

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Criminal hackers threaten to leak World-Check screening database A criminal group known as GhostR claims to have stolen 5.3

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

7, 2024 — Badge Inc. , By eliminating passwords and stored secrets, Badge bolsters Radiant Logic’s extensible identity data platform to accelerate strategic initiatives such as digital transformation, Zero Trust, automated compliance, and data-driven governance. San Francisco, Calif.,

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. and software libraries to attack the supply chain. 30% data breaches and +23% ransomware for the first two months of 2024. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Watsonx’s open-source frameworks and SDK and API libraries are designed to make it easier to implement AI into existing software platforms that telcos already use to oversee their networks. CSPs and NEPs usually have huge support centers and IBM has the potential to help transform workflows between all ecosystem players.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Well, unlike large organizations, small to medium businesses lack the full accompaniment of network defenses. So they’re often unprepared when a nation state APT choses to focus on them. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. I’ve spoken about this before, about managed service providers or MSPs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. This hack included US Government networks.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

GB Bladen County Public Library Source (New) Public USA Yes 85 GB National Amusements Source (New) Leisure USA Yes 82,128 Enstar Group Limited Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 71,301 Kimco Staffing Services, Inc. Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Australia Yes 95.19

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 26, 2024 FCKeditor Used for SEO Poisoning on Government, University Sites Type of vulnerability: Malicious URL redirect. February 27, 2024 Ransomware Gangs Target Unpatched ScreenConnect Servers Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass and path traversal. The fix: Apply Windows patches ASAP.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cooper reveals 14,690,284 people affected in October breach The largest mortgage provider in the US, Nationstar Mortgage LLC, operating under the name Mr. Cooper, says its investigation into an October cyber attack has uncovered evidence of customer data being compromised. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals.

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