Archive-It

MAY 8, 2023

by the Community Programs team This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. Participants were then introduced to Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH).

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Some services, like the New York Public Library and PrintWithMe, do both.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Just a few weeks ago, IBM announced an expansion to their embeddable AI software portfolio with the release of three containerized Watson libraries. The new libraries include: IBM Watson Natural Language Processing Library for Embed. IBM Watson Speech-to-Text Library for Embed. Partner solutions using embeddable AI.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Working Internationally for Libraries: How to write effective grant proposals. I had heard about the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) during my MSc, but I didn?t From her description, it sounded like an exceptional opportunity for learning what libraries all over the world are doing and for networking.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

The expert determined the number of cryptocurrencies that were mined to a mining pool account by inspecting the mining pool. Half of the images discovered by the expert were using a shared mining pool, by he estimated that threat actors mined US$200,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a two-year period.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. If the custom shared library exports a function with the same signature of a library that is located in the system libraries, the custom version will override it.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”. What’s that?

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Standing up to arguments against copyright reforms GETTING copyright right matters for libraries. It’s arguably one side of the same coin as funding, determining what we can do with our resources, and so how far readers, researchers and learners can enjoy effective library services. This article shares some examples.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. It also hides malicious processes using library injection and encrypts the malicious payload. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. ” The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency, hackers exploit unprotected open Docker API port to instantiate an Ubuntu container. “The spre.

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CILIP

JUNE 29, 2021

Maintaining the status quo for public libraries ? Here he speaks to Rob Mackinlay about why not challenging the methods used by publishers to protect their content will damage not only libraries, but also threatens research and innovation. ?Publishers He sees licensing as an existential threat to libraries, saying: ?I?m

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

. “LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.” ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba Cloud, Azure, and AWS. “ Ngrok Mining Botnet is an active campaign targeting exposed Docker servers in AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms. .” ” continues the report.

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CILIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

THROUGHOUT history, libraries have been grounded in physical artefacts and a sense of place – in print books and library buildings. The advent of digital collections, and the notion of a ‘digital library’, prompted something of an existential crisis, presaging the potential demise of libraries as physical places.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ?They?re Instead of a library of marks, a conventional library of books ? But even if she didn?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

. “The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. It is, however, notable that the writers of the SCP library are located in China.” We could not determine any meaningful advantage for one method over the other. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. “Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during the last weeks of December.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. . “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.”

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Unwritten Record

JUNE 17, 2020

The film, West Virginia and Its Natural Resources , was part of the film library of the Bureau of Mines. The library served as a way to further agency’s mission to spread information on the extraction, processing, use and conservation of mineral resources. Still Picture records relating to West Virginia .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Now the researcher Troy Mursch noticed that the infected MikroTik routers from the latest campaign open a websockets tunnel to a web browser mining script.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 14, 2023

Like the previous workshop held at the Art Librarians Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) conference in Mexico City, this event was supported by a generous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Left: Executive Librarian Roger Lawson leads workshop attendees on a tour of the National Gallery of Art Library.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

The adware applications were linked together by the use of third-party Android libraries, which bypass the background service restrictions present in newer Android versions. However, our analysts were able to detect it because apps using these libraries waste the user’s battery and make the device slower.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “The malware is uploaded as gzip compressed tarball archives of binaries, scripts, and libraries. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.” ” wrote Cashdollar.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 16, 2023

2023-08-10: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2023 Trip Report Kritika Garg shares a recap of the WADL workshop, including overviews of each presentation + slides. We’re Hiring! Our team is growing! Check out the Internet Archive’s job board to learn more about new positions, share, and apply.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. . Upon connecting to the command-and-control server, the malware downloads the first malicious payload in the form of a.msi file, which deploys a.vbs file used to execute other processes, as well as uninstall.dll and engine.bin. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Here he gives his view of changes in the job market for library and information roles in the corporate sector. Sue Wills, who is responsible for Arts, Heritage, Libraries and Registration Services at Surrey County Council, interprets the jobs market in public libraries. Public libraries jobs. ?There Academic Libraries. ?From

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. In the second hour, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist from the University of Kentucky (UK) Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented UK Libraries’ Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content. Memorial branch.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2021

I'll give you a perfect example of that last point: in Feb 2018 I wrote about The JavaScript Supply Chain Paradox: SRI, CSP and Trust in Third Party Libraries wherein someone had compromised a JS file on the Browsealoud service and injected the Coinhive script into it. file from coinhive.com and the setting of a 32-byte key. Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+apollohobo/1.0.0+Chrome/58.0.3029.110+Electron/1.7.9+Safari/537.36

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I had heard about the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) during my MSc, but I didn?t t know much about the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) till this conversation with a colleague who attends the Congress fairly regularly. e.g., follow @CILIPInfo and other Library Associations.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Bitcoin mining, for instance, is a contest to solve a difficult cryptographic puzzle in order to earn the right to add the next block of validated ledger entries to the historical chain of ledger blocks. Enterprises will remain at the table because improved productivity and greater profits are possible.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

“Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! The malware implements anti-virtualization, anti-debugging, and anti-sandboxing methods to determine whether to deliver the miner or not. continues the analysis. The last week of May is the most active period on record.

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Info Source

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the past year, Libraries and Archiving, Education, Mining, Media Companies, and Agriculture have also demonstrated noteworthy progress towards adopting digitalisation, resulting in increased scanning needs.

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