Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The payload includes a dynamic-link library (vpn.sessings) that injects the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike Beacon into memory and awaits commands from the C2 server. Threat actors used a cracked version of Cobalt Strike.

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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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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

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.

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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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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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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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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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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 29, 2024

by the Archive-It team Archive-it and Community Webs annual meeting recaps The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Harold Washington Library Center Winter Garden (Image: Spiro Bolos, CC BY-SA 2.0) Community News Buncombe County Public Library’s scanning table at the Southside United Neighborhood Association reunion, October 21, 2023.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Akamai researchers developed a tool called Frogger that allow them to gather information on infected hosts, including their uptime, hashrate, peers, and hasrate, if a cryptominer is running. “The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. ” 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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

And earlier this year, three popular “ selfie beauty apps ”– Pro Selfie Beauty Camera, Selfie Beauty Camera Pro and Pretty Beauty Camera 2019 – accessible in Google Play Store were revealed to actually be tools to spread adware and spyware. The bypassing itself is not explicitly forbidden on Play Store.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

Copyright has created a digital dark age where the most powerful tools for cultural analysis are blind between 1910 and the rise of social media, says Melissa Terras , Professor of Digital Culture at Edinburgh University and keynote speaker at CILIP?s ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. she says, ?because

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Intel addresses High-Severity flaws in NUC Firmware and other tools. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. The gang deploys new tools on its worldwide tour. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Capital One hacker suspected to have breached other 30 companies.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

13% maintain access to company tools or resources after leaving the organization. 9% share credentials for work tools with people outside the company. Credentials Protection Despite the increase in attacks, you can deploy many different tools and techniques to protect credentials.

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CILIP

JULY 22, 2024

The power of the PKSB The Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) is a fantastic tool that you will want to refer to throughout your chartership journey, if not your whole career. It is a living document that grows with you, highlighting the areas of skills and expertise most relevant to the library and information sector.

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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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Collibra

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. King Ptolemy I Soter set about creating the largest collection of data (then) known to man, an institution known as the Library of Alexandria. . Data collection is what we do. Today, we think of Big Data as a modern concept. Around 300 B.C.E.,

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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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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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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Requested features from the crowd involved ability to use the Wayback QA tool on test crawls and a way to better tie the patch crawls to original crawls. Karl Blumenthal demonstrates Voyant for text mining analysis on ARCH datasets. Memorial branch.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

THE choice was either to teach a procurement expert about libraries or to teach a librarian about procurement. so making that framework more appropriate to the library sector. One aim is to find flexibility and grow common ground between suppliers and university libraries. It would allow libraries to say ?I Innovation.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. “PlugWalkJoe,” tweeting a screenshot of Twitter’s internal tools interface.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. Generative AI also helps generate use cases based on code insights and functional mapping.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

It is a useful tool that helps us consider how records might need to be managed differently, depending on their current purpose and function. Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It describes the journey of a government record, from its creation to its final disposition.

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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

Emphasis is mine.). says that passing a NULL pointer to a standard library function is undefined behaviour, therefore if dest was NULL any behaviour is reasonable. You can also play with this snippet in Matt Godbolt's excellent tool.). can be applied to any standard library function. I'm sure that 7.1.4 Section 7.1.4

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

My parents were very poor, but our town had an excellent public library that I practically moved into. s Near Future Library Symposium. Can you give us your Top 5 things on the horizon that library and information professionals need to know about, and why? Do our libraries need to recruit data scientists? cat up a tree?

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CILIP

OCTOBER 8, 2019

AI will be a key tool in ensuring that content remains accessible and discoverable ? ConTech MD Clive Snell says that is why library and information mangers should be looking at the possibilities now. Dion Lindsay, MD of Real Knowledge management, says there are many advantages for information and knowledge managers who attend ConTech.

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Archive-It

JULY 28, 2020

Archived web data and collections are increasingly important to scholarly practice, especially to those scholars interested in data mining and computational approaches to analyzing large sets of data, text, and records from the web. by the Archive-It team. We are excited to announce a significant expansion of our partnership.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This Archive-It blog post by Samantha Fritz and Ian Milligan introduces the Archives Unleashed Cloud platform and resources that make it possible to explore web archives beyond Wayback, using text mines, link graphs, and more. Release: New tools for instant crawling. Nov 9-11: California Library Association – Santa Clara, CA.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 11, 2023

Machine learning engineers take massive datasets and use statistical methods to create algorithms that are trained to find patterns and uncover key insights in data mining projects. Using AutoML or AutoAI, opensource libraries such as scikit-learn and hyperopt, or hand coding in Python, ML engineers create and train the ML models.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 30, 2021

Vamosi: So what then is structure where fuzzing with normal coverage guided fuzzing like we see with open source tools we can capture information about how the target responds to our input. So for an image conversion library. Another area where Harrison's been focused is fuzzing full libraries.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This discussion will include methods, tools, and techniques such as using personae and identifying use cases that have high business value, while minimizing project risks. More likely, the organization will resist DT – its new tools and processes to support new business models. This is a best-case scenario. Cloud-First.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! The second problem I saw was not enough people have good tools to find security problems. What's this?

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