CILIP

JUNE 7, 2024

Trust Libraries: 10 Pledges for libraries to a new Government A General Election is just round the corner and its outcome will affect us all, with a new government and potentially hundreds of new MPs taking their seats in the House of Commons.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Libraries, critical thinking and the war on truth – what lies ahead in 2024 Nick Poole, Chief Executive, CILIP will leave CILIP at the end of March 2024. As we look ahead to 2024, we have to be clear that our world is experiencing just such a period of conflict. Our users, our communities and our societies need us.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New Future Libraries project to support resilience and strategic growth in Public Libraries Future Libraries is a two-part initiative from CILIP to challenge and engage librarians and library leaders to reimagine libraries in a world of evolving living and working patterns in the context of a rapidly changing world.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2024

Void Banshee APT group exploited the Windows zero-day CVE-2024-38112 to execute code via the disabled Internet Explorer. An APT group tracked as Void Banshee was spotted exploiting the Windows zero-day CVE-2024-38112 (CVSS score of 7.5) to execute code through the disabled Internet Explorer. ” states Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2024

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2024 fixed 59 flaws across various products including an actively exploited zero-day. CVE-2024-30051 – Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The vulnerability was tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and received a CVSS score of 10.

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CILIP

MARCH 6, 2024

CILIP has previously signalled deep concern over the lack of financial support to Local Authorities and the fact that the recently announced ‘Exceptional Financial Support’ (EFS) package will prompt a ‘fire sale’ of vital assets, including public libraries, in the 19 Councils concerned.

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CILIP

JUNE 17, 2024

Libraries and the fight against truth decay Truth decay is the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life, it is a phenomenon that erodes civil discourse, causes political paralysis, and leads to general uncertainty around what is and is not. A healthy democracy is helped by an open exchange of views,” said Stijn.

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CILIP

JUNE 4, 2024

Libraries Change Lives: Prison library tackles low literacy with Poet Laureate workshop Poet Laureate Simon Armitage visited HMP East Sutton Park and brought a new joy in reading and writing poetry for the prisoners. See how libraries are changing lives in your area, view the interactive impact map. Deadline Monday 24 June.

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CILIP

MARCH 18, 2024

Libraries at Risk: Update CILIP has written to eight councils in the Libraries at Risk Campaign, launched the #DearChancellor campaign on social media, and written a formal letter to Lord Parkinson to initiate dialogue on the future of libraries. View all the #DearChancellor tweets on X (formerly Twitter).

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Will ‘Project Hope’ protect public libraries? Parliament is not yet sitting (at time of writing), but we already know that 2024 promises to be a year of change as the country moves into a General Election footing. Some councils have opted to replace professional library staff with volunteer or community-run services.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These flaws could allow attackers to inject malicious libraries into Microsoft’s apps and steal permissions. Despite these risks, Microsoft considers the issues low-risk and declined to fix them, stating that some apps need to allow unsigned libraries for plugin support.

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CILIP

MARCH 1, 2024

Libraries in 19 councils at risk of ‘fire sale’ with new Exceptional Financial Support Framework Image of birmingham library via wikimedia commons CILIP is sounding the alarm over a potential 'fire sale' of library buildings following the Government announcement of 'exceptional financial support' to 19 Councils.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Protect funding for public libraries at risk In this election year it is more important than ever to bring libraries into the public and political spotlight as central government cuts council budgets across the country. The Libraries at Risk Monitor builds on the Know your Rights campaign, which has been running since 2023.

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CILIP

AUGUST 5, 2024

CILIP statement on the fire damage at Spellow Hub Library in Liverpool Spellow Hub library is located in Liverpool, and was transformed into a 'library of the future' in 2023. Across the country, public libraries should be safe, welcoming and inclusive communities, open to all free of charge.

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CILIP

AUGUST 30, 2024

CILIP writes to Libraries Minister CILIP has written to Sir Chris Bryant, detailing how CILIP can support the new government’s key missions. Chief Executive Louis Coiffait-Gunn reached out to the MP after he was announced as heading up responsibility for public libraries.

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CILIP

AUGUST 28, 2024

We write as the leaders of national charities representing school library staff; the School Library Association, the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) including CILIP’s School Libraries Group (CILIP SLG), and the Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians (ASCEL).

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CILIP

JANUARY 16, 2024

CILIP welcomes publication of Sanderson Review of Public Libraries CILIP has welcomed the publication of the findings of Baroness Sanderson of Welton’s Independent Review of Public Libraries, announced today at an event at the House of Lords attended by our CEO, Nick Poole.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium V8 Inappropriate Implementation Vulnerability CVE-2024-38856 (CVSS score of 8.8) This week Google released a security update to address the Chrome zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-7965 that is actively exploited.

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CILIP

MAY 13, 2024

Innovative approaches to literacy: Libraries Change Lives Librarians from across the country have been submitting their stories of impact to share with MPs and political leaders as part of the Libraries Change Lives Campaign.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2024

Google has released emergency security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4761, in the Chrome browser. “CVE-2024-4761: Out of bounds write in V8. Reported by Anonymous on 2024-05-09″ reads the advisory. 208 for Mac/Windows and 124.0.6367.207 for Linux. .

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CILIP

JUNE 12, 2024

Libraries Change Lives: Participatory storytelling raises children’s book borrowing at Staffordshire Library Newcastle Under Lyme Library, Staffordshire, brought new energy to reading and literacy through participatory storytelling in a unique series of events in partnership with the New Vic Theatre. Deadline Monday 24 June.

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CILIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

Approaching AI at the National Library of Scotland Image of the National Library of Scotland by Magnus Hagdorn, from Flickr Robert Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation, introduces a new AI Statement for the National Library of Scotland.

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CILIP

JUNE 24, 2024

Library brings local history to life for London school children Guildhall Library in the City of London created an open and accessible space that got children out of the classroom and gave them hands-on experience of history. The free workshops consisted of discussion and creative writing, including a slideshow and a plague game.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Various forms of AI, such as machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLM), already dominated headlines throughout 2023 and will continue to present both overhyped possibilities and realized potential in 2024. In 2024, AI poisoning attacks will become the new software supply chain attacks.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Libraries Change Lives parliamentary reception unites MPs, Lords and Library Leaders Florence Eshalomi, Labour MP for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green speaking at the parliamentary event “Libraries represent the very best of us. Without that I don’t think I’d be standing here today.” “One

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CILIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Invitation to Tender - Anti-Racist Library Collections training for Wales Content Developers needed for the Anti-Racist Library Collections project. There is scope to develop one, two or three anti-racist library collection modules that will form a program of training for public libraries across Wales.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Red Hat warns of a backdoor in XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development and experimental versions. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. rpm and xz-libs-5.6.0-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Related: Europe mandates resiliency Requiring a formal inventory of all components, libraries and modules in all business applications can help lock down software supply chains, especially in light of the SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline attacks. Yet SBOMs will take us only so far.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2024

The vulnerability CVE-2024-36985 is a Remote Code Execution (RCE) through an external lookup due to “copybuckets.py“ script in the “splunk_archiver“ application in Splunk Enterprise. Technology company Splunk released security updates to address 16 vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform. and 9.2.2, ” reads the advisory.

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CILIP

JUNE 21, 2024

Crowd of 1000 packs Cambridge Theatre for Yoto Carnegie Awards Ceremony 2024 Group Photo of the winners, from left Joseph Coelho, Tia Fisher, Aaron Becker Verse novels win Medal for Writing and Shadowers’ Award for Writing at the Yoto Carnegies, one of the last remaining, and longest-running, national awards for books for children and young people.

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CILIP

JUNE 25, 2024

People with dementia reconnect with past memories at Brent Libraries A library book formed the basis for the sessions that stimulated the memories of people living with dementia and created a sense of community for carers and family members. One participant said: “If you want to live long, make yourself happy”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools eval injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-36401 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CISA orders federal agencies to fix this vulnerability by August 5, 2024. GeoServer versions prior to 2.23.6,

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2024

Google has released a new emergency security update to address a new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5274, in the Chrome browser, it is the eighth zero-day exploited in attacks disclosed this year. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-5274 exists in the wild.” “Type Confusion in V8.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2024

The conference runs from June 26 through 29, 2024, and my panel is at 9:00 AM on Friday, June 28. I’m speaking on “Reimagining Democracy in the Age of AI” at the Bozeman Library in Bozeman, Montana, USA, July 18, 2024. The event will also be available via Zoom. The list is maintained on this page.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2024-8190 (CVSS score of 7.2) This week, Ivanti warned that recently patched flaw CVE-2024-8190 in Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) is being actively exploited in the wild. The company note that CSA 4.6

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Ivanti warned that recently patched flaw CVE-2024-8190 in Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) is being actively exploited in the wild. Ivanti warned that a newly patched vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-8190 (CVSS score of 7.2), in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) is being actively exploited. The company note that CSA 4.6

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