CILIP

JANUARY 10, 2023

Libraries and sanctuary. John Vincent has been actively tackling social exclusion in libraries and other cultural and heritage organisations through The Network (www.seapn.org.uk) and the Libraries of Sanctuary project, that evolved from the Cities of Sanctuary.

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CILIP

APRIL 3, 2023

Farewell Ridgmount Street, hello British Library We are excited (and a little nostalgic) to announce that CILIP has relocated from Ridgmount Street to our new space at the British Library. It had previously been used (in part) as a repository for the British Library. So here we are in 2023.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 30, 2021

The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library. New owner pays all packaging and shipping costs, and possibly a purchase price depending on who you are and what you want to do with the library. If you think you can break it up and sell it, I’ll consider that as a last resort.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

The development team behind the vm2 JavaScript sandbox library addressed a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability. servers, it has approximately four million weekly downloads and its library is part of 722 packages. servers, it has approximately four million weekly downloads and its library is part of 722 packages.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Digital Leadership for Libraries empowering England’s public library workforce. CILIP has launched Digital Leadership for Libraries , five open-access, online learning modules created for public library workers, volunteers and apprentices. 16 November 2022. Digital Leadership.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Green Libraries Conference: agenda gaining momentum A CONFERENCE to highlight the role that libraries and their staff can play in the climate change agenda was one of the key goals set out by the Green Libraries Partnership when it was established last year. In her talk she will provide an update on this phase of activities.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mastering RPG Games in Libraries For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming, especially because being a game master in a school or public library for a group of students is quite different to being a game master for adults with hours to spend.

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CILIP

MARCH 28, 2023

Action, Inspiration and Insight at Inaugural Green Libraries Conference Last week CILIP’s first Green Libraries Conference took place and showcased over a year of sustainable and attainable green projects and initiatives, at the Wellcome Collection in London.

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CILIP

MARCH 31, 2023

Front line of library advocacy is close to home THE reasons for defending access to information can sound abstract: “There’s a lot of abstraction when you’re doing policy at a global scale,” says Jennie Rose Halperin, Executive Director of Library Futures. My mother was sick for 26 years before she passed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Mozilla fixed a critical memory corruption issue affecting its cross-platform Network Security Services (NSS) set of cryptography libraries. Mozilla has addressed a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2021-43527) in its cross-platform Network Security Services (NSS) set of cryptography libraries. ” wrote Ormandy.

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CILIP

AUGUST 31, 2022

African libraries provide perspectives on digital literacy for sustainable development. The African library sector has been a key advocate for digital literacy across the continent, and a new book published today delves into what has been achieved and what more needs to be done. Published: August 2022. ?. ?. ?. From CILIP.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library impacts millions of IoT products. Nozomi Networks warns of a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-05-02, in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library which is used by a large number of IoT products. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The npm security team has removed a malicious JavaScript library named “ twilio-npm ” from its repository because contained malicious code. The tainted JavaScript library was spotted by the researcher Ax Sharma from security firm Sonatype. The reverse shell opened a connection to “ 4.tcp.ngrok[.]io:11425 tcp.ngrok[.]io:11425

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Researchers from DrWeb monitored attacks leveraging exploits for vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library. Researchers from DrWeb monitored attacks leveraging exploits for vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE2021-4104, and CVE-2021-42550) in the Apache Log4j library warning of the need to adopt protective measures.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

70 percent of mobile and desktop applications that today we use are affected at least by one security flaw that is present in open-source libraries. Experts pointed out that every library could be affected by one o more issues which will be inherited from all the applications that use them. ” reads the report. percent).

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CILIP

APRIL 20, 2023

Controversial materials in libraries and what to do about them Controversy is never far away from Professor Louise Cooke – it is a subject that has informed her work, research and teaching since she began life as a librarian. She says: “It is one of the greatest challenges facing libraries today.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2023

The open-source jsonwebtoken (JWT) library is affected by a high-severity security flaw that could lead to remote code execution. The open-source JsonWebToken ( JWT ) library is affected by a high-severity security flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-23529 (CVSS score: 7.6), that could lead to remote code execution. addressed the issue.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

Drupal development team released security updates to address a vulnerability that resides in the PEAR Archive_Tar third-party library. The Drupal development team has released security updates to address the CVE-2020-36193 vulnerability in the PEAR Archive_Tar third-party library. ” reads the advisory. bz2, or.tlz files.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Libraries call to strengthen link between local authorities and library services on green policy. The results from the Green Libraries Survey give an overview of where the sector sits today with an understanding of what public libraries are already doing to be green, what they would like to do, and what would help make this possible.

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CILIP

JANUARY 19, 2023

How Libraries Can Support Those with Dementia Libraries are often considered the heart of the community, but not everyone understands just how much they have to offer. When it comes to dementia services, libraries have enormous potential to support people with dementia and their carers.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Take action with your library this Libraries Week. This Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021) libraries across the UK showcase their vital role in supporting active and engaged communities as we celebrate the transformative impact libraries can have on people?s s much-loved libraries.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption library that could be exploited to get remote code execution. It’s also the crypto library used by systemd for DNSSEC. The team recommends users to stop using the vulnerable version of the library. which we released last week.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

Researchers disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-25845, in the popular Fastjson library. Cybersecurity researchers from JFrog disclosed details of a now patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 14, 2022

£135,000 funding for Anti-racist library collections in Wales. The investment will fund a new project – Anti-racist Library Collections: a training plan for public libraries in Wales with the purpose of raising the profile of libraries. 14 December 2022. which was also funded by the Welsh Government.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737, has been disclosed in the SQLite database library. The security expert Andreas Kellas detailed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the SQLite database library, which was introduced in October 2000. through 3.39.1. ” Kellas wrote.

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CILIP

APRIL 2, 2023

Beth Montague-Hellen, the new Head of Library and Information Services at the Francis Crick Institute, asks how big changes like this can be achieved without the help of a crisis. The latest book from Facet looks at how tabletop roleplaying games can be incorporated into school libraries.

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Pwnie Express

MARCH 17, 2022

Opensource from hell: malicious JavaScript distributed via opensource libraries, again. In this blog our CSO explores why distribution of malicious scripts via libraries is causing a stir amongst the open-source community and how you can defend against it. Florian Barre. Thu, 03/17/2022 - 08:01. Martin Jartelius, CSO, Outpost24.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Researcher discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the open-source Apache Commons Text library. GitHub’s threat analyst Alvaro Munoz discovered a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42889, in the open-source Apache Commons Text library. ” reads the post published by Munoz.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

Researchers from JFrog’s Security Research team discovered five vulnerabilities in the PJSIP open-source multimedia communication library. Researchers from JFrog’s Security Research team discovered five vulnerabilities in the popular PJSIP open-source multimedia communication library. on February 24, 2022.

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Preservica

MARCH 18, 2022

Academic libraries are in the midst of rapid, widespread changes as it shifts into the digital age. Our libraries have been a steady flame for patrons to depend on, not just throughout the pandemic, but throughout history. See how Preservica customers are creating engaging internal and public access.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Trellix security researchers have revealed a major vulnerability in the Python tarfile library that could be exploited in software supply chain attacks. The post Unpatched Python Library Affects More Than 300,000 Open Source Projects appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. Path Traversal Vulnerability Exposes Repositories.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Martin Lewis sparks a warm welcome in UK libraries this winter. CILIP, the library and information association has today (11 October 2022) published a set of guidelines: ‘A Warm Welcome. As the leading voice for the library profession, CILIP stepped forward and undertook to produce the guidelines as a matter of urgency. ‘A

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