Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2023, the researchers observed a surge in zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party components and libraries that can impact all products that use them. The Chinese government made the headlines because government-linked APT groups exploited 12 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023, which marks a notable increase from seven in 2022.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 14, 2022

£135,000 funding for Anti-racist library collections in Wales. CILIP Cymru Wales on behalf of CILIP has just secured £135,000 funding from the Welsh Government. This has been awarded to support the delivery of the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan. which was also funded by the Welsh Government.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Invitation to Tender - Anti-Racist Library Collections training for Wales CILIP is looking to commission an external provider/s to develop content for anti-racist library collection training for public libraries across Wales.

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CILIP

JULY 6, 2023

CILIP and Michael Rosen bring Great School Library Campaign to Parliament CILIP CEO, Nick Poole joined leading writer, poet, former Childrens Laureate, broadcaster and columnist Michael Rosen and Margaret Greenwood MP (Wirral West, LAB) in the first of a series of events to engage MPs and make sure every child has access to a great school library.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

There’s an important moral to the story of the attack and its discovery : The security of the global internet depends on countless obscure pieces of software written and maintained by even more obscure unpaid, distractible, and sometimes vulnerable volunteers. These code repositories, called libraries, are hosted on sites like GitHub.

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CILIP

JUNE 30, 2021

Independent Review of Public Library Financing Panel announcement. CILIP is delighted to announce the expert members of the recently established Independent Review of Public Library Financing Panel. Public libraries are a vital part of the fabric of daily life for millions of people across the UK every day. community management?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

The new guidelines state that prosecutors should avoid charging security researchers who operate in “good faith” when finding and reporting vulnerabilities. ” What constitutes “good faith security research?” ” The new DOJ policy comes in response to a Supreme Court ruling last year in Van Buren v.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

A group of alleged Iranian hackers claims to have breached the website of a US government agency, Federal Depository Library Program , on Saturday after the killing of Qasem Soleimani. The hackers defaced the website of the Federal Depository Library Program and replaced the home page with a page titled “Iranian Hackers!”

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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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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Library branches remain open, Wi-Fi is still available and materials can still be borrowed. Records breached: According to the library’s 4 November update , there is “no evidence that the personal information of our staff or customers has been compromised”. However, public computers and printing services are unavailable.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. The CurKeep payload is very small, it is 10kb in size, contains 26 functions and is not statically compiled with any library. appeared first on Security Affairs. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Collibra

JANUARY 9, 2024

In today’s world, data drives many of the decisions made by federal and state government agencies. High-quality data about vaccine supplies and population densities can lead to a successful distribution strategy, saving lives and strengthening public trust in the government’s response to the crisis.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2021

The US government has published a software library called six-library designed to parse and manipulate satellite imagery and data for both internal and public use. One thing is for sure, this code is likely used in both government and private code bases and this particular bug has been lying unknown (hopefully!)

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2021

The US government has published a software library called six-library designed to parse and manipulate satellite imagery and data for both internal and public use. One thing is for sure, this code is likely used in both government and private code bases and this particular bug has been lying unknown (hopefully!)

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

CILIP welcomes Labour Party Manifesto commitment to libraries. s Library and Information Association, has welcomed the commitment in the Labour Party?s s 2019 General Election manifesto to secure the long-term future of public libraries. CILIP has been among those leading calls for public library standards for England.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Patch your TeamCity instance to avoid server hack Is Gelsemium APT behind a targeted attack in Southeast Asian Government? A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It’s easy to think of it as a problem the federal government must address or something that enterprises deal with, but cybersecurity has to be addressed closer to home, as well. His company supplies a co-managed SIEM service to mid-sized and large enterprises, including local government agencies. I spoke to A.N. Election threat.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Lockbit ransomware gang demanded an 80 million ransom to CDW CISA warns of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations exploited in ransomware attacks Stayin’ Alive campaign targets high-profile Asian government and telecom entities.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you’re a Collibra customer, chances are you’re already made significant progress in establishing an expansive data access governance program even if that wasn’t your original intent. The three components of a scalable data access governance foundation. Data classification for data access governance.

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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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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 402 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 8, 2021

And a massive security failure on the part of the United States is also to blame. Our insecure Internet infrastructure has become a critical national security risk­ — one that we need to take seriously and spend money to reduce. We typically don’t know what third party libraries are in the software we install.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

CILIP Statement re: Proposed cuts to National Library of Wales Budget. There can be few national institutions that fulfil this task more directly nor more effectively than the National Library of Wales. We note that even prior to the current budget consultation, the Welsh Government?s Nick Poole CEO, CILIP.

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CILIP

MARCH 2, 2020

Time to end a decade of library austerity. CILIP and Library Champion Bobby Seagull delivered a petition to Downing Street last Thursday calling for an end to a decade of public library austerity and demanding secure revenue funding for public libraries in the Chancellor?s Library Champion, Bobby Seagull, added; ?libraries

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. newversion ” files were generated by another instance of Pysa.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is a critical vulnerability of very high significance to government and industry groups. Confirm that your security operations center is monitoring external-facing systems for indicators of compromise. Ensure network logging exists to record activity related to a vulnerable Apache Log4j logging library.

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CILIP

MAY 22, 2024

The election will give voters across the country the chance to have their say at the ballot box as they decide on a new government. Today's announcement is an opportunity for this skilled and trusted profession to show the next government how it could do even more for the public with the right support and investment.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. million patients in the U.S.

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