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A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be responsible for operating […]
Since the release of his 2019 bestseller How to Be an Antiracist, author and scholar Ibram X. Kendi has adapted his guide for specific audiences, including young children and parents. Now Kendi, working with middle-grade and YA fiction author Nic Stone, is bringing his concepts and research to teens in an effort to help them […]
Libraries are institutions first known as places for learning. They offer academic and studying-friendly environments where students and adults can focus on their studies. With the growing popularity of Princh Library Blog’s original post Why The Public Library Is The Place For Studying, we decided to write an extension to the post adding more reasons […]
Those of you working with large datasets know that their size complicates pretty much everything you do, from opening them to analyzing them to sharing them. That’s why the team at the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) has recently devised a better, smoother, faster way for you to move content you want to share from Oak, […]
I just got access to Bing Chat, so let’s see what it can do in the library world. I found myself on the monthly AI4LAM Community Call first thing this AM, and the topic was the use of ChatGPT in Libraries, Archives and Museums. While not my area of expertise, one of the examples shared […]
Millions of Americans receiving food assistance benefits just earned a new right that they can’t yet enforce: The right to be reimbursed if funds on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards are stolen by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and grocery store checkout lanes. On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into […]
And here we are at this final post in the “Data We Love” series for #LoveDataStanford during #LoveData23 Week! For all the data curators out there, you will appreciate this example of well-prepared data. Take note, future data depositors! Show your love for your data by taking care to prepare for its use by others! […]
Today we celebrate transformative data in this penultimate post in the “Data We Love” series for #LoveDataStanford during #LoveData23 Week! Head’s up: if the phrase “collections as data” means anything to you, this one should be especially compelling, but we all can learn from this exemplary approach to transforming data in the interest of past, […]
In many library districts, the governance of the library is delegated to an appointed board of volunteers from the local community. These dedicated volunteers provide hundreds of hours of effort to support the library, but with any board of directors there can be challenges that need to be overcome. This is particularly true of a […]
I wish I’d put it together, but it was my colleague, Bronte Chiang, who just released this fantastic LibGuide on Artificial Intelligence. It’s not a hard-science guide, but “…has been created for students and instructors to explore how to responsibly and ethically use AI in their work. There is information about how to critically engage […]
Joslyn Dixon (left), executive director of Oak Park (Ill.) Public Library, poses with author Caseen Gaines in the LLX Marketplace.Photo: EPNAC For the first time, the American Library Association (ALA) held LibLearnX (January 27–30) in person. The four-day hybrid event drew 1,712 attendees and 757 exhibitors to New Orleans as well as 190 participants to […]
This is international Love Data Week, an annual celebration of all things data that highlights topics, opportunities, and services relevant to data in research. Check out this quick (1:37) video below to learn about new features for the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) that make it easier than ever for you to share your data with others. Share your […]
Today we celebrate accessible data, the third post in the “Data We Love” series for #LoveDataStanford during #LoveData23 Week! Yesterday (Day 2) we celebrated innovative data. Before that (Day 1), impactful data was in the spotlight. This series is brought to you by the Stanford Digital Repository service team. Special thanks to co-producer Regina Roberts […]
Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. This year’s special Valentine’s Day Patch Tuesday includes fixes for a whopping three different “zero-day” vulnerabilities that are already being used in active attacks. Microsoft’s […]
Welcome to the second post in our “Data We Love” blog series! In honor of #LoveDataStanford during #LoveData23, every day this week we are highlighting data in the Stanford Digital Repository that stands out — and deserves a heart-filled shoutout — for being especially loveable! Today we draw your attention to an incredible project focused on […]
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Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence […]
What makes a library a library? As per our latest post, there are as many definitions as there are patrons, but their ought to be some components that are always present in every library, right? It is difficult to formulate what those core components are for every library. However, this week’s guest writer John D. Hayden […]
KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, it’s fair to say the series will explore compelling new clues as to who […]
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show […]
