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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. “The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub.
Security Affairs
MARCH 17, 2021
The FBI has issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks on education institutions in the US and UK. The FBI has issued Tuesday an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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CILIP
OCTOBER 14, 2019
The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull bring the case for library funding to Parliament. At a Parliamentary event at the House of Lords today, The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull will join forces with CILIP, the UK library association, to make the case for long-term sustainable funding for libraries. Education, informal learning and skills. We welcome the news of the Government?s Library Champion Bobby Seagull commented, ?Last
CILIP
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Nick Poole on the power of Public Libraries and his hopes for the year ahead. I see Jon (Jon Davis, Co-Chair of the CILIP Public and Mobile Libraries) has put me down as ‘Director of Enthusiasm’, which is quite the introduction.
Security Affairs
APRIL 6, 2021
China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. GOBLIN PANDA was focused on Vietnam, most of the targets were in the defense, energy, and government sectors.
Preservica
JUNE 2, 2020
The State Library of South Australia (SLSA) has chosen Preservica’s cloud-hosted active digital preservation platform to safeguard more than 150 terabytes of unique digitized and born-digital material. The State Library of South Australia is the trusted custodian of all South Australiana.
Preservica
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. Preservica, the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, is pleased to announce that the Fenway Library Organization (FLO) has selected Preservica’s Cloud Edition for consortia to preserve and safeguard digital content for its members. The libraries will preserve archival materials that are part of the institutional memory.
CILIP
OCTOBER 15, 2019
School Librarians deliver their report card to Education Minister Nick Gibb. School Librarians in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have called on Education Minister, Nick Gibb, to address the findings of new research into School Library provision, which highlights inequality of access to school libraries and insecure employment for school librarians. The research was commissioned by the Great School Libraries campaign ? s School Libraries Group ?
Preservica
AUGUST 15, 2018
Boston, MA and Oxford, UK – Aug 15 2018 – The Dartmouth College Library, an integral part of the private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, has chosen Preservica ’s cloud-hosted active digital preservation software to protect and provide greater online access to the heritage and institutional assets of the college. The Dartmouth College Library is focused on supporting and enhancing new modes of scholarship and research innovation at Dartmouth.
IG Guru
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Barragan (San Jose State University) Introduction “The Library of Babel” is a short story conceiving of a universe in the form of a nearly infinite library containing all possible books. Impacts of the Cloud on Records Management and ArchivesA book edited by Salvador P.
CILIP
JULY 29, 2019
With good will and a good plan, libraries can deliver. With good will and a good plan, libraries can deliver. A new advocacy campaign that will build and mobilise national support for libraries has been launched by CILIP in partnership with the EveryLibrary Institute, a US-based project that has helped secure over $1.6bn in tax funding for libraries. Libraries?Deliver Library and Information Professional spoke to him at this year?s
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites in response to the discovery of the Log4Shell flaw in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Log4j is an open-source library widely used by both enterprise apps and cloud services, including Apple iCloud and Steam.
eDiscovery Daily
JANUARY 25, 2018
Jim’s post below highlights the importance of information governance and the need for data discovery to manage increasing volumes of data (as we discussed during this webcast last month). A friend met me there, and one of the things we’d hoped to do (besides listen to a lot of live music) was visit the LBJ Presidential Library housed at the University of Texas campus. Which made me think of the state of data creation, management, storage, and security in the corporate world today.
IT Governance
JUNE 1, 2022
We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox.
Preservica
AUGUST 7, 2018
Boston, MA and Oxford, UK | Day August 7, 2018 | Preservica, a world leader in digital preservation, has announced its support for the Council of State Archivists’ (CoSA) 2018-19 research initiative into the risks to electronic state government records from file format and technology obsolescence. Having worked closely on this issue in the past both CoSA and Preservica share a commitment to proactive digital preservation as well as broader access to government records.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 9, 2022
Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. PdfParser, a standalone PHP library, provides various tools to extract data from a PDF file.
IT Governance
JULY 31, 2019
Remember after last month’s relatively serene cyber security scene we said this wasn’t the beginning of the GDPRevolution ? Hackers steal names and Social Security numbers from Maryland Department of Labour (78,000). Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers (unknown). Philadelphia Federal Credit Union confirms security breach (unknown). LaPorte, Indiana, government pays $132 after its systems crippled by ransomware (unknown). Cyber Security
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2021 – 61 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. The attackers used Dynamic-link library (DLL) side-loading to deliver the malicious code.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code is based on public Python libraries.
IT Governance
MAY 4, 2021
It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. discloses security incident (unknown) St. If you find yourself staring down disaster, IT Governance is here to help.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help.
IT Governance
MAY 30, 2019
The cyber security story for May 2019 is much the same as it was last month, with one mammoth breach raising the monthly total. Salesforce customers faced 15-hour delay as org investigates security incident (unknown). Sunderland City Council launches investigation after library users’ personal data hacked (45). Hackers breach the Philippines United Student Financial System for Tertiary Education (unknown). Kentucky library closes due to ransomware attack (unknown).
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
Even my own state government down here had been hit. This short video makes the use case pretty clear: As Texthelp points out on their site, there's a bunch of regulatory requirements around accessibility which government sites in particular need to play nice with. All of which means this: Versioned external libraries can easily be protected with SRI because the contents of that specific version will never change. They might change the API endpoints the library calls.
The Schedule
APRIL 20, 2018
The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating. Information technologists, data librarians, and information governance professionals may broaden those definitions to include data backups, but generally, archivists tend to shy away from “Big Data” and instead focus on that small bit of material that is deemed archival. Local library initiatives such as the Ann Arbor News digitization project at the Ann Arbor District Library.
Security Affairs
APRIL 14, 2020
PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. The post Crooks target Healthcare facilities involved in Coronavirus containment with Ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs.
The Texas Record
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Much to the excitement of its co-hosts, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC, and the Department of Information Resources (DIR), the e-Records Conference returned to live and in-person attendance on November 18, 2022, for the first time since 2019. One lesson learned in the intervening years was the indisputable reach a virtual event offers to local governments and state agencies across Texas.
Brandeis Records Manager
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
Ironically, both library/info services categories and records management records/retention schedule are absent from 72% of the schedules surveyed, indicating that some of us info pros are not “eating our own dog food.” While safety and security record categories appeared underrepresented for such combustible record types (missing from 42% of the schedules), HR/personnel records are covered more consistently in 88% of the schedules. George Despres.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 14, 2023
The bill appealed to many privacy-conscious education advocates, and appropriately so. At the federal level, it’s provided by the US Government Publishing Office , and there are already tools for downloading and interacting with it. By Nathan E.
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 9, 2019
But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? The Chrome team, I think there's 38 people just on the security team.
CILIP
MARCH 21, 2022
Executive Director of the Ukraine Library Association, Yaroslava Soshynska, talks to Rob Green about life in Ukraine as Russia wages war on its neighbour, the role of libraries in the country and how moral support is keeping people strong. libraries saving lives?,
CILIP
DECEMBER 13, 2021
We have also been able to grow our influence in Westminster and the Devolved Administrations, particularly thanks to the re-launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Libraries, Information and Knowledge (APPG LInK) ? to promote collaboration between libraries in the UK and overseas.
Preservica
DECEMBER 29, 2022
From academic institutions and government agencies to corporate businesses and the health sector, 2022 was full of world events that will shape our history forever. Preserving our digital memory is the backbone of how we educate ourselves, advocate for change, and support each other and our institutions for future generations to come. The new Charter incorporates 7 Sustainability Principles around data, software, operations, knowledge, finance, governance, and environmental impact.
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 17, 2021
Back in the day, security training was largely reserved for IT security specialists and then extended to include IT personnel in general. Security awareness training for employees has come into its own of late. Elevate Security. Living Security. Elevate Security.
Preservica
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) selects Preservica and TeraMach to centralize and preserve digital documentary history for all Canadians. It will see the government agency start processing more than 7 petabytes of digital records into the new digital archive. About Library and Archives Canada. Preservica is an AWS Government Competency Partner meeting the highest levels of availability, reliability and security for government workloads and data.
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 9, 2019
One industry where there is plenty of speculation about the potential applications and benefits of machine learning and artificial intelligence is information security, where high demand and an acute shortage of talent have executives, entrepreneurs and industry analysts argue that the adoption of machine learning and AI is unavoidable, especially if companies hope to stay on top of multiplying and fast-evolving cyber threats without breaking the bank.
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 9, 2019
One industry where there is plenty of speculation about the potential applications and benefits of machine learning and artificial intelligence is information security, where high demand and an acute shortage of talent have executives, entrepreneurs and industry analysts argue that the adoption of machine learning and AI is unavoidable, especially if companies hope to stay on top of multiplying and fast-evolving cyber threats without breaking the bank.
The Texas Record
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Better Together in a Digital World: Security and Retention. Today, our partners inside and outside of government, especially the public, increasingly expect to interact with us electronically. Government is transforming to meet its partners in this brave new digital world. The e-Records Conference is an educational opportunity for improving electronic records management in Texas government by bringing together records management and information technology staff.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 6, 2019
Few months ago we started observing a cyber operation aiming to attack private companies in various business sectors, from automotive to luxury, education, and media/marketing. The attack attribution is still unclear but the large scale of the malicious activities has also been confirmed by Unit42, who reported attack attempt against government verticals too. . Security Affairs – Roma225, hacking).
Preservica
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
From the digitization of records and data management to preservation and secure public access and discovery of files — archival repositories must evolve and keep pace with technology to continue serving its users.
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