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June 2021 LC LABS LETTERA Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Welcome, CCHC researchers! Funded with a 2019 $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative aims to better serve research and creative uses of Library of Congress […]
Consequently, cyber attacks have become more widespread and sophisticated, impacting the critical infrastructures of many organizations and gaining access to their most valuable assets. Besides investing in technology, organizations should turn to relevant policies and industry standard frameworks to better inform their practices. It’s a critical step toward keeping data and systems secure and managing […]
We often say that in cybersecurity, it’s important to think about “when” an attack will occur, not “if” it will occur. And while being proactive is touted as the key to an organization’s most effective security posture, one should never dismiss the value of reactive security practices, either. Building up your defences against attacks and […]
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device. One of many similar […]
I was alerted to a new(ish?) feature within Google Scholar earlier this week by this blog post: What does this new Google Scholar “Public Access” feature mean for me or my work? More information on the Google Scholar site itself: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html?1#publicaccess. From that original post: The new Google Scholar feature is a reminder that it […]
On this week’s Princh Library Blog post guest writer Michelle De Aizpurua shares a few pieces of advice on how to attract teens to the library. Technological initiatives that can be used to attract students to the library Attracting young people to the library can often be a challenge, there’s many competing demands on a […]
In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new “shimming” devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many of these shimmers, but for years couldn’t decrypt the data on the devices. This is a story of ingenuity and happenstance, and how […]
Stanford researchers can now automatically populate their ORCID record with publication data from Stanford Profiles. This new feature allows researchers, many of whom have built out extensive lists of their publications and research outputs in Stanford Profiles over the years, to make their ORCID record equally rich. Further, as they add new publications to their […]
Burnout, depression, anxiety and a slew of mental health issues are becoming more common among cybersecurity professionals. Although workplace stress follows every industry, cybersecurity seems to be particularly susceptible to it. The fact that there is stigma around discussing mental health in the security community does not help either. The modern superheroes who make the […]
Savala Nolan. Photo: Andria Lo As a woman who is mixed race, has experienced elite schools and generational poverty, and has been thin and fat at different times in her life, Savala Nolan has long felt that she occupies in-between spaces in society. The lawyer, speaker, and writer (whose work has appeared in Bust, Time, […]
Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting […]
Stanford Libraries is embarking on an exciting collaboration with the National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) to digitize a selection of Chinese rare books in the holdings of the East Asia Library and the Bowes Art & Architecture Library. The scanned titles will be added to the NCL’s Rare Books and Special Collections online database, a […]
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the […]
Last month, I posted about how a patron request prompted me to collect the historical COVID-19 R-values for Alberta. That data is available on a public Google Sheet, but I had meant to throw up a chart as well. The other day I was reminded about Datawrapper, so I used that to make this: Hopefully […]
Advocating for your library is important, but it should not only be done when one needs it the most – advocacy should be something done all throughout the year. In this week’s Princh Library Blog, Brooke King shares her best practices and past experiences on how one can advocate for their libraries. Advocacy is an […]
With hundreds, if not thousands, of websites being launched every day, the increasing size of the internet makes it nearly impossible to manually scan and build reliable reports. Internet scanning, as it’s commonly called, can often be too slow for timely catching of security vulnerabilities when done manually. And that’s even within small to medium-sized […]
Today we are pleased to highlight a major enhancement to Stanford’s research information ecosystem: the ability to link a SUNet ID with an ORCID iD via authorize.stanford.edu. This development allows Stanford community members to leverage ORCID iDs, a unique identifier for researchers across the globe, to get credit for their work and streamline their workflows. […]
Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group, a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOP’s victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School, the University of California, and University of Maryland. A still shot from a […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two […]
In 1969, at the height of the civil rights movement, legendary ballet dancer Arthur Mitchell—the first Black permanent member and principal dancer with New York City Ballet and a protégé of George Balanchine—founded Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH). It was imagined as a space where dancers of all cultures and colors could train in the […]
