The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

8, 2023 – SandboxAQ today announced Sandwich, an open source framework and meta-library of cryptographic algorithms that simplifies modern cryptography management. This provides a much simpler process to create a cryptographic object, such as a secure tunnel, and helps organizations implement crypto-agility. Palo Alto, Calif.,

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Apple has released its first Rapid Security Response update, but many iPhone users reported problems during the installation of the iOS Security Response. On June 2022, Apple announced that the Rapid Security Response feature would be available starting with iOS 16.4.1, ” “iOS Security Response 16.4.1 (a)

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Application programming interface (API) security is a combination of tools and best practices to secure the all-important connections between applications. API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls.

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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 bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

ransomfeed #security #infosec #energychina pic.twitter.com/deRRximVPd — Ransomfeed (@ransomfeed) November 25, 2023 The China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) is a state-owned company in China that operates in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Energy China [link] TL;DR That's huuuge!

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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. But it is true, I am never going to apologise for being relentlessly enthusiastic about public libraries.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

This Linux version is 64-bit and also uses the Boost library, it uses the Crypto++ library instead of Windows CryptoAPI. ” The decryptor also supports the option to back up encrypted files, which is recommended by the security firm. The authors used Microsoft Linker version 14.35.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. We’ll be back next week with the biggest and most interesting news stories, all rounded up in one place for you. In the meantime, if you missed it, check out last week’s round-up.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

Google rolled out emergency security patches to address another actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser. The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023.

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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.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 2, 2019

UK Library Association responds to Boris Johnson?s s Library and Information Association has responded to comments made by Conservative leader Boris Johnson during his interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday 1st December. I love libraries? Firstly, local library services are not just the responsibility of Local Councils.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

recommend organizations in the area of interest of the APT group to improve the security of IT Security systems. The HTLM files are hosted on a legitimate online library website that was likely compromised by the threat actors sometime between the end of January 2023 and the beginning of February 2023.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Recently I heard a librarian say that introducing makerspaces into libraries was one of the riskiest undertakings the service had ever embarked upon. I found this a little odd, since we are all in the information business and a lot of library time is taken up with answering ?how s library buildings are a mixture of ancient and modern.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

Google released an emergency security update to address a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome which is actively exploited in the wild. Google released an emergency security update to address the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-2033) in 2023, the company is aware of attacks in the wild exploiting the issue.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The APT group is using almost exclusively living-off-the-land techniques and hands-on-keyboard activity to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 266 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! NetWalker ransomware gang threatens to release Michigan State University files.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 7, 2023

We have 4 upcoming events planned for June 2023: Mayhem Unleashed Webinar: Discover our Next Generation Security Testing Solution DevSecOps Roundtable CyberSecurity Summit Hartford ForAllSecure APFT (Adversary, Penetration, and FuzzTesting) Training Read on to learn more about June’s events. We hope to see you there! The challenge?

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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 ease of use and high levels of security will be vital to the SLSA in ensuring we keep all relevant records accessible going forward.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Recently, the Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library and China Energy Engineering Corporation to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.

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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.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. FLO helps its members with library systems, resource sharing and technical support, as well as fostering community collaboration and statewide recognition.

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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. From a security point of view files of the types DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, and XLSM, have a common issue, they can contain macros which are embedded scripts that are executed inside the file.

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CILIP

JULY 29, 2019

With good will and a good plan, libraries can deliver. With good will and a good plan, libraries can deliver. Deliver will bring together existing campaigns, help them to expand local and national support for libraries, and create a pool of support that can be called upon to take action ? John Chrastka is joint founder of Every?Library

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

It uses a statically linked OpenSSL (OpenSSL 0.9.8e) library to interact with the domain over HTTPS via HTTP POST request” The researchers noticed that the command handler implemented in the PingPull malware is similar to the ones supported by both the China Chopper web shell and the PingPull Windows PE variant. .”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2018

As the head of a security company I’m hypersensitive about the security of my personal and company data. I know that in the age of devices we use interchangeably in our work and personal lives that unless everything you are doing is secure, nothing is secure. The first line of defense is education.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

This is presumably intended to help security researchers vetted by the search engine’s staff to secure the exposed devices and files indexed on the service. 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Security researcher Nguyen The Duc published on GitHub the proof-of-concept exploit code for a Ghostscript zero-day vulnerability. The library is widely used by many servers that leverage it for image conversion and is used as part of the file upload processing application, such as ImageMagick. Airbnb, Dropbox, and Yandex).

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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. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Get started.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 15, 2019

School Librarians deliver their report card to Education Minister Nick Gibb. The research was commissioned by the Great School Libraries campaign ? a 3-year evidence-based campaign run by CILIP, the library and information association, the School Library Association (SLA) and CILIP?s s School Libraries Group ?

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The AIIM Conference is fast-approaching and whether you’ve already secured your ticket, still trying to convince your boss to send you , or just can’t attend this year - we have something for everyone on this latest episode of The AIIM on Air Podcast. Tune in for a taste of what to expect at the conference and some educational takeaways.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It offers ease of integration and scalability for analytics and AI workloads using your company’s data, and offers guardrails for ensuring governance, security and compliance. IBM offers a portfolio of technologies, including watsonx , AI libraries, applications and APIs that can be tailored to suit different needs.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

If you discover that your antivirus or security software has been turned off without your knowledge, this might be an indication of malware attacking your system. It offers real-time protection, scanning downloads, attachments, and programs as they run, providing an additional layer of security. The Start screen will appear.

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CILIP

JULY 25, 2023

Connecting town and gown through the library CILIP came together for its annual conference and this year’s event marked a special celebration – not just the 125th anniversary of CILIP’s Royal Charter, but also the announcement of the CILP 125 List. Rob Green looks at how the CILIP 125 List is signalling a bright future for the profession.

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