CILIP

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Public Libraries as part of the HM Government ?roadmap? CILIP welcomes the recognition of libraries as essential services and library staff as ?key in the Government?s s pandemic response, demonstrating the vital role public libraries have to play in our national recovery. COVID-secure? key workers?

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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sanderson Report Shows that libraries are part of something bigger UK media, leading writers, including two former Children's Laureates, and library advocates including CILIP CEO, Nick Poole came out in force to defend public and school libraries in response to Baroness Sanderson’s Review of Libraries.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

1, 2024 — ForAllSecure , the world’s most advanced application security testing company, today announced it is changing its corporate name to Mayhem Security (“Mayhem”), signaling a new era of growth and opportunity aligned with its award-winning Mayhem Application Security platform.

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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

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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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These flaws could allow attackers to inject malicious libraries into Microsoft’s apps and steal permissions. The researchers analyzed the exploitability of the platform’s permission-based security model, which is based on the Transparency, Consent, and Control ( TCC ) framework. ” continues the report.

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 347 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2024

A campaign tracked as EastWind is targeting Russian government and IT organizations with PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors. In late July 2024, Kaspersky researchers detected a series of targeted cyberattacks against the Russian government and IT organizations. “This library is a backdoor packed with the VMProtect tool.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This issue arises because the GeoTools library API, which GeoServer uses, evaluates property/attribute names for feature types in a way that unsafely passes them to the commons-jxpath library, allowing arbitrary code execution. government entities in Belgium, and telecommunications companies in Thailand and Brazil.

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OpenText Information Management

JULY 17, 2024

Real-world example: In March 2023, a vulnerability in the Redis library used by ChatGPT led to a data breach , exposing sensitive user information. This is where Secure Information Management (SIM) plays a crucial role. What is secure information management? secure when in-use, in-transit, and at-rest.

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CILIP

JULY 29, 2024

CILIP in the press – Summer 2024 This summer, CILIP’s public affairs and general election activities have been raising awareness about the value and significance of libraries in all sectors, and have placed libraries at the heart of the political conversation. paywalled) Full story from the Telegraph Libraries give us power.

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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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