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. Resisting mis- and dis-information As a political tool, populism has always sought to take advantage of people’s fears. So where do we go from here?”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in the code of the Rhysida ransomware that allowed them to develop a decryption tool. The Rhysida ransomware uses CSPRNG, which is based on the ChaCha20 algorithm provided by the LibTomCrypt library. According to the gang’s Tor leak site, at least 62 companies are victims of the operation.

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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. Without automated tools, it’s virtually impossible for them to manually sift through this growing volume of data to ensure its quality. Automated and business friendly tools are crucial in this context.

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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 tools have no code similarities with any known tool used by other threat actors. All the tools connect to the same infrastructure, which is associated with China-linked APT ToddyCat.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

The growth of DevSecOps tools is an encouraging sign that software and application service providers are increasingly integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC). This article looks at the best commercial and open source DevSecOps tools and what to consider when evaluating DevSecOps solutions. Table of Contents.

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CILIP

AUGUST 8, 2023

The horizon scanning department for public libraries THE appetite for horizon scanning among public librarians is huge – as we have recently seen at the CILIP Conference – but the number of public librarians paid to do it is minimal. For me the next progression would have been outside of the library world. “For

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2023

government agencies, global banks, telcos, and tech companies. It supports multiple languages (C/C++, Rust, Python, Go, and others), operating systems (MacOS and Linux), and cryptographic libraries (OpenSSL, BoringSSL and libOQS), with future additions planned. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

Code debugging and code security tools exist to find and help developers fix the problems that occur. Such tools typically capture exceptions as they occur and provide diagnostic and contextual data to make resolution easier. How they go about it differs from tool to tool. Best Code Debugging and Code Security Tools.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since the inception of data forensics almost forty years ago, methods for investigating security events have given way to a market of vendors and tools offering digital forensics software (DFS). As cybercrime flourishes and evolves, organizations need a fleet of tools to defend and investigate incidents. The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy.

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 14, 2020

National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . A library is a place that stores information, a place where people from all walks of life have the opportunity to obtain textual and audiovisual material for education, entertainment, and enlightenment. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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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

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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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. Palo Alto, Calif., SandboxAQ recently launched its Security Suite which handles discovery and remediation of encryption vulnerabilities. A broad range of U.S.

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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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CILIP

JANUARY 6, 2020

Libraries: don't mess with trust. Libraries: don't mess with trust. s (ODI) mission is to help companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem. Jeni Tennison, CEO of the ODI discusses how libraries could fit into it without damaging themselves. where the libraries are for example. ?Most

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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. But how is information governance any different than records management? Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Pysa ransomware, cybercrime).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But for many others, the solution is to tie ITAM into other tools that protect it and aid in patching vulnerabilities. In other words, modern ITAM tools go beyond maintaining an inventory of assets to help IT management make decisions about ways to improve capacity, reduce infrastructure costs, or upgrade hardware or software.

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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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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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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

Having launched and scaled our discovery engine in 2020 to help companies understand their SaaS stacks better, we have since launched an identity governance tool to manage access and now are launching the Zluri co-pilot to help enable faster workflows.” ARC is a group of 16 unique companies with varying tech stacks. About Zluri.

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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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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is a critical vulnerability of very high significance to government and industry groups. Adjust firewalls and other endpoint tools to prevent outbound connections from systems with log4j. Ensure network logging exists to record activity related to a vulnerable Apache Log4j logging library. See the CISA alert and NIST alert.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Shift happens: the future office/library in a connected world. Work happens anywhere where you may well be with the digital tools as your disposal. We have different social, digital tools that allow us to connect, learn, share and collaborate ? Governments have drawn boundaries with wildly differing interpretations of risk.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

CISA Adds Chrome & Perl Library Bugs to Active Exploitation List Type of attack: Arbitrary (ACE) and remote code execution (RCE) attacks that exploit data import/export operations in Excel-related functions in web applications and denial of service (DOS) crashes or ACE/RCE related to heap buffer overflows in Chrome. Versions 0.65

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CILIP

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Here she looks at the how a National Data Library could work and what is needed for it to be a success. The idea of a National Data Library (NDL) emerged in the Labour Party Manifesto ahead of this year’s ­General Election. As a country, we need well-structured and well-governed data to support AI stacks.

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ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Enhance existing knowledge and information skills with Generative AI CILIP member, Josiah Richardson, is a Senior Library Assistant at An NHS trust in the Knowledge and Library Service based on the hospital site, whilst also doing the Level 3 Library, Information and Archive Services Assistant CILIP NVQ.

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CILIP

JULY 29, 2019

With good will and a good plan, libraries can deliver. With good will and a good plan, libraries can deliver. Deliver will bring together existing campaigns, help them to expand local and national support for libraries, and create a pool of support that can be called upon to take action ? Database tool for action.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Should library services be cutting their most dynamic spaces? Photo credit: Should library services be cutting their most dynamic spaces? A recent report, Libraries on the Move , by Dr Alyson Tyler, studied the impact of mobile libraries in Scotland. Route optimisation is as a tool that can help in planning routes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Threat actors target government entities in the Middle East with a new backdoor dubbed CR4T as part of an operation tracked as DuneQuixote. The experts identified two versions of the dropper, regular droppers (in the form of an executable or a DLL file) and tampered installer files for a legitimate tool named “Total Commander.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Recently, the Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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CILIP

APRIL 20, 2020

Reflections on the Libraries? In my workplace, physical library services have stopped completely, with no readers and no staff permitted to access buildings. I run the discovery service SOLO for the Bodleian Libraries, one of the parts of the modern library which is most electronic in nature. Digital Resource Discovery.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This tool is intended to help organizations identify potentially vulnerable web services affected by the log4j vulnerabilities: [link] — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov) December 21, 2021. Fuzzing for more than 60 HTTP request headers (not only 3-4 headers as previously seen tools). WAF Bypass payloads.

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