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Advisory note: ?Contact Tracing? for librarians and information professionals

CILIP

CILIP has provided this advisory note in response to the call for libraries and information services, particularly public libraries, to undertake data-collecting activity as part of the Government?s with other library systems or user information. No deterrent to library use. Contact Tracing? Contact Tracing?

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Chinese actor ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ remained undetected for five years

Security Affairs

The messages use specially crafted archives containing LNK files disguised as regular documents. Upon receiving a request, it executes the encoded JavaScript code using the Microsoft.JScript library. ” The threat actors used both custom malware and off-the-shelf tools to gather sensitive data from victim machines.

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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Security Affairs

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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Raspberry Robin operators are selling initial access to compromised enterprise networks to ransomware gangs

Security Affairs

Data collected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint shows that nearly 3,000 devices in almost 1,000 organizations have seen at least one RaspberryRobin payload-related alert in the last 30 days. DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm.

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Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online

Security Affairs

Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online. To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. What was shared by the threat actor?

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Archive-It Partner News, May 2021

Archive-It

50+ public libraries have joined Community Webs to document local history and the lives of their patrons through web archiving. Hartford Public Library : Partner Brenda Miller on collecting and sharing local history with Community Webs. of Information and Library Science, Indiana University at Bloomington.

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Archiving and describing mass tragedy: the Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

Archive-It

The staff at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives were shocked and horri fied, and the impact of this tragic event has been shocking and surreal to the Las Vegas community. Photo by Aaron Mayes (Curator for Visual Materials, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives).