Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This finding suggests a potential supply chain vulnerability, these AWS access tokens are often exposed through shared library, third-party SDK, or other shared components used by the development teams. “The credentials could expose private authentication data and keys belonging to every banking and financial app using the SDK.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The malicious version of the installer installs a malicious Tor Browser that is configured to expose user data, including the browsing history and data entered into website forms. The experts also discovered that the libraries bundled with the malicious Tor Browser is infected with spyware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

With that said, the data found in the samples posted by the leaker mostly comes from 2019, which may indicate that it has no connection to the former incident and might have been acquired separately. The leaked SQL database contains more than 823,000 rows of data divided into 97 tables. What was leaked?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. What’s in the Clubhouse/Facebook compilation? The compilation was allegedly created following the July 24 Clubhouse scrape, where a ‘secret database’ of over 3.8

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online. To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. What’s being sold by the threat actor?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

New attack by Anonymous Italy: personal data from ministries and police have been released online. Apache Struts users have to update FileUpload library to fix years-old flaws. IBM Watson will be used by NIST to assign CVSS scores to vulnerabilities. Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Emma Thwaites, Director of Global Policy and Corporate Affairs at the Open Data Institute (ODI) will be appearing at this year’s Rewired conference. Here she looks at the how a National Data Library could work and what is needed for it to be a success. Since then, there’s been ­ongoing discussion about its shape and scope.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. After we reported the issue to Sky on October 8, a company representative informed CyberNews that Sky has “taken action to address the issue.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online. To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. What was shared by the threat actor?

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CILIP

JANUARY 6, 2020

Libraries: don't mess with trust. Libraries: don't mess with trust. The Open Data Institute?s 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. Personal data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people , many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. But not Jessamyn West.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The CILIP Data Protection Conference, on 21 May 2025, is an exciting new addition to the CILIP calendar. Presented in collaboration with Naomi Korn Associates, this conference is designed for all those responsible for managing information and personal data.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Just like the best sourdough bread derives from a “mother” yeast that gets divided, passed around, and used over and over, open-source software applications get fashioned from a “mother” library of code created and passed around by developers. Related: Equifax hack highlights open source attack vectors.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Libraries in Onondaga Co., Federated Library System working on its online system following a ransomware attack (unknown). Tennessee high school students at risk after data breach at Higher Education Commission vendor (unknown). Isle of Man government ‘mislays’ personal data of home care residents (33).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Library branches remain open, Wi-Fi is still available and materials can still be borrowed. According to Advarra, “a limited amount of company data”.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Labour Party discloses cyber attack, members’ data stolen (unknown) Hackers leak Kent school files in ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attack (unknown) Angling Direct website hit by cyber attack (unknown) The Martin County Tax Collector suffers cyber attack (unknown) National University of Singapore Society members’ data stolen (1,355) Domaining.com (..)

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Log4Shell is a remote code execution exploit that’s found in versions of log4j, the popular open-source Java logging library. But just how concerned should you be and is there anything you can do to protect yourself? What is Log4Shell?

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Examples of the CIA triad Confidentiality Data confidentiality is most likely to apply in relation to personal data, such as customers’ names, contact details and payment card information. You should also silo highly sensitive data, such as credit card information and health records.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Travel and medical insurance provider guard.me million) Indra hacking group blamed for attack on Iranian railway system (unknown) Willdan Group, Inc. Travel and medical insurance provider guard.me million) Indra hacking group blamed for attack on Iranian railway system (unknown) Willdan Group, Inc.

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CILIP

MAY 14, 2020

CILIP is the professional association which champions and supports people working in libraries, information and knowledge management. s primary concern is for the health and wellbeing of our members, the wider library, information and knowledge profession and of service users. Download this Policy Statement as a PDF. The individual?s

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

million) Clinical test data stolen from biotech company Enzo Biochem (2.47 million) Clinical test data stolen from biotech company Enzo Biochem (2.47 million) Clinical test data stolen from biotech company Enzo Biochem (2.47 million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Technologists are developing big data applications that are coming more into the public eye, and Industrial Revolution 4.0 In one positive example of reaction to the opportunities, LibrariesWest is sharing library and personal data between six public library services in the West Country. is gathering pace.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Enterprises are constantly scaling to meet growing customer needs—with an explosion of endpoints and data, it is becoming increasingly difficult to secure endpoints, and remote work has only added to the challenge. If our personal data or confidential enterprise data falls into the wrong hands, bad actors could create havoc.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

million) Wyoming Department of Health leaking data online (164,021) Maine government website displayed mental health patients’ confidential information (unknown) Israel: Private patient cases of deceased psychologist found on the street (unknown) Contact tracing data breach exposes health information of Pennsylvanians (72,000).

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 114

CILIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

s library and information association, has joined the Open Rights Group and other privacy campaigners in expressing their strong concerns about the proposal to aggregate GOV.UK user data centrally for use by Downing Street as part of Brexit planning, reported yesterday in Buzzfeed news. CILIP, the UK?s

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Personal data Privacy Libraries Risk 40

Data Protection Report

APRIL 27, 2023

Infringement cases have already started, Notably, Getty Images has brought copyright infringement proceedings against Stability AI in the UK High Court for the use of images from its image library (including the reproduction of the Getty Images watermark in some of the Stability AI generated images).

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Spyware is a highly secretive malware that gathers sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and other personal data, and transmits it back to the attacker without the victim knowing. One of the best-known zero-day vulnerabilities is Log4Shell , a flaw in the widely-used Apache Log4j logging library.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 15, 2012

The purpose of the Code is to provide organizations with guidance on how personal data can be anonymized successfully, and how to assess the risk of individuals being identified using data that has been anonymized.

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CILIP

JULY 30, 2019

THE British Library (BL) does not have statutory responsibility for public library policy. for public libraries? Instead it started with the values of public libraries and also the value of having professional librarians. The report, Digital Transformation for UK Public Libraries: five approaches to a ?single

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Their main purpose is to protect applications from unauthorized access, data breaches, and malicious attacks. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Most of the libraries HIBP uses are open source. Regardless of how broadly that information is circling, I still need to ensure the same privacy controls prevail across the breach data itself even as the code base becomes more transparent. Open Source is Everywhere A heap of really amazing projects are open source these days.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers are sending bots out to run comparative analysis on discrimination through personalization around the web, potentially offering some transparency to an otherwise opaque and individualized process. Personal data gets really personal. Lam Thuy Vo explores using data as self-help/therapy to cope with a divorce.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Knowing that one model won’t be enough – we’ve created a foundation model library in watsonx.ai Reducing model-training risk with synthetic data In the conventional process of anonymizing data, errors can be introduced that severely compromise outputs and predictions. for clients and partners to work with.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He gives an example from his early days at the Department for the Environment: “I remember in April 1986, I was on the library enquiry desk. Decades later his library role has shifted into managing across the full gamut of KIM-related disciplines, but he is still supporting the Government’s information needs in crises. “Yes,

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Government Libraries Computer and Electronics Information governance 52

CILIP

JUNE 24, 2019

In this article he discusses how he brought his library experience ? spending a decade working various libraries in the UK ? I was trained in librarianship, and worked in special and academic libraries in the UK for about a decade before I moved into learning and development, and then knowledge management. t hold true any more.

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