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Libraries, critical thinking and the war on truth – what lies ahead in 2024

CILIP

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.

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

As that definition spans the cloud and data centers, and on-premises, mobile and web users, application security needs to encompass a range of best practices and tools. Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step.

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The horizon scanning department for public libraries

CILIP

The horizon scanning department for public libraries THE appetite for horizon scanning among public librarians is huge – as we have recently seen at the CILIP Conference – but the number of public librarians paid to do it is minimal. For me the next progression would have been outside of the library world. “For

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Living Off the Land Attacks: LOTL Definition & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Use LOLBINS to track binary activity The Living off the Land Binaries, Scripts, and Libraries project ( LOLBAS ) offers a comprehensive list of exploits attackers use. ” Wilson also recommends application allowlisting , which helps reduce LOTL risks by significantly limiting the number of applications that your systems can use.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Brexit means new risks for the sector

CILIP

Brexit means new risks for the sector. That means greater risk aversion, more obstacles and more costs for library and information professionals. Risk and orphan works. The most immediate problem for the library and information sector is orphan works. Risk manage it. s library and cultural heritage sector.

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Multiple experts released exploits for Linux local privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables

Security Affairs

is a buffer overflow issue that resides in the GNU C Library’s dynamic loader ld.so “A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library’s dynamic loader ld.so This could put countless systems at risk, especially given the extensive use of glibc across Linux distributions.” ” concludes the report.

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