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Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights. Click here for all previous updates. Did you know that some of […]
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the […]
Today’s guest post is from Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist & By the People community manager at the Library of Congress. Commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States through service! Join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 4, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT to learn about The American Revolution in Context, a […]
A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm’s chief executive says the malicious activity resulted from a security breach and was likely the work […]
A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology […]
Digital Collections Technician, Seth Langer Today’s blog post is an interview with Seth Langer, a Digital Collections Technician here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Hi Seth, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate? How would you explain […]
Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed “BlueHammer.” Separately, Google Chrome fixed its fourth zero-day of 2026, and an emergency update for Adobe Reader nixes an actively exploited […]
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division and co-founder of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice. Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action […]
In today’s guest post, Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist & By the People community manager at the Library of Congress, interviews the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Archives Outreach Manager, Meghan Sorensen. We just celebrated seven years of By the People, which invites virtual volunteers to transcribe historic texts. But did you know there is another crowdsourced […]
Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code. Microsoft […]
Anywhere Adventures is a mobile-first website that brings local history to users through comics and travel logs. In the first year, 2025-2026 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li developed stories for three locations: Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, and Southeast Wyoming. She is now seeking story submissions from readers for two new locations: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the […]
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across […]
Today’s guest post is a reflection from Thalia Lightstone, one of eight 2025-26 Librarians-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. The Librarian-in-Residence program was created for newly graduated MLIS students to gain professional experience while contributing meaningfully to the work of the Nation’s library. Read her interview from last year here. When I began library school, […]
Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist & By the People community manager at the Library of Congress. Are you a new By the People volunteer? Do you know someone who might be interested in transcribing historical documents? Could you use a refresher about the program? Whether you’re new or an expert, we are inviting everyone […]
Today’s guest post is from Morgan Morel of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress. Vrecord is open source video capture software used by video preservation labs across the nation. The idea for vrecord was born from an Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Hack Day project to see if a Bash […]
A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran’s time zone or have Farsi set as the default language. Experts say the wiper campaign against Iran materialized this […]
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates to our digital collections and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights. Click here for all previous updates. This 1920 guide to Ann […]
The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets — named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad — are responsible for a […]
I found this post by John Rush to be a fascinating read. Come for the vibe-coded infographics and confirmation that eggs are indeed more expensive, but stay for the deep dive into co-working with multiple AI tools. It’s also another reminder that, particularly around OCR, some tools are vastly better than others, so don’t get […]
Happy Spring to all our By the People crowdsourced transcription program volunteers! Every year, the By the People team publishes a “happy birthday to us” blog post right here on the Signal (you can check out previous years’ editions here and here). We turned seven during the Fall of last year and we’ve been waiting to make a very exciting announcement: Our volunteers completed one million transcriptions! By the People volunteers […]
