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Rhysida ransomware gang is auctioning data stolen from the British Library

Security Affairs

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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Challenging the sterotypes and why we need new perspectives

CILIP

Connecting town and gown through the library SCHOOL Librarian Phyllis Ramage is just about to start her second year as a judge on the Yoto Carnegies awards. Before moving into school librarianship, Phyllis worked in public libraries, starting out “in 1994 in a junior position with the London Borough of Barnet as a library assistant”.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies. It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001.

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The profession's biggest problem: diversity

CILIP

LIZ Jolly, Chief Librarian at the British Library since September 2018, will give a keynote speech at the CILIP conference in July. experience in a variety of institutions in the university sector, most recently as Director of Student and Library Services at Teesside University. Staff at the British Library may be a ?multi-professional

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Remembrance through cultural memory: First World War commemorated by Preservica users

Preservica

From a personal perspective, having studied History at University and with family that fought in the conflict, I am particularly interested in deepening my knowledge and understanding of the war and how it impacted the lives of so many. “On That’s in addition to lots of our factories being given over to the manufacturing of munitions.”.

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Researchers released a free decryption tool for the Rhysida Ransomware

Security Affairs

“This study examines Rhysida ransomware, which caused significant damage in the second half of 2023, and proposes a decryption method. The Rhysida ransomware uses CSPRNG, which is based on the ChaCha20 algorithm provided by the LibTomCrypt library. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! Like you mentioned, you'd think that the manufacturers would really want to get on top of that.