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 […]
Not to be confused with Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative, Jeremy Singer-Vine is spending his time on the Data Liberation Project, “an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest.” There’s not yet a lot to look at there, but there’s plenty in the pipeline. I just attended a […]
Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) has published a new reference resource about the work we produce in digitization services: Digitization Exemplars. This exhibit features an array of examples of each of the kinds of materials that we digitally reformat in our various labs. The purpose of this site is to serve as a reference […]
A common occurrence we encounter in our everyday routines is placing a definition to something. We do this for many reasons but a lot of times it is so we can assign a meaning or possibly a value to that item. However, this can be a difficult task, especially when we attempt to do this […]
Last week, a colleague forwarded the following from a listserv, where someone was asking how to cite ChatGPT using IEEE style. A response from another user, – I can’t speak to IEEE style yet, but a colleague of mine reached out to APA’s style experts just yesterday to ask how to handle citing ChatGPT in […]
In this week’s Princh Library Blog post, we discuss the importance of libraries, and the resources and services they provide to everyone. This blog is an updated version of the original 5 Reasons Why Libraries are Essential to Have post, which you can read here. These days, when we search for information, it is usually […]
On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about […]
Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking […]
Autherine Lucy and lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Brooks leave the courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 29, 1956, after the court had ruled Lucy had to be reinstated as a library science student at University of Alabama but before the university’s trustees expelled her later that day. Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs […]
T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts. Image: customink.com In a filing […]
As a school librarian you might be stretched for resources – you have many different things to do, but one person can only achieve so much. But where can you find more helping hands? This is where your students come in! It is hard to imagine better helpers than the members of your community who […]
Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of cybercrime law. But until recently, their biggest concern wasn’t avoiding capture or shutdown by the […]
Yesterday, Todd Carpenter posted a transcript of his interview with ChatGPT on the Scholarly Kitchen blog. I thought it would be fun to see how much the answers would change when asked again. I’ll make the same disclaimer he did, “You can review for yourself whether you think the responses are good ones or not […]
In the first Princh Library Blog post of 2023, Misskoko the Librarian shares her advice on how you and your library can start using social media SEO to be more visible on the World Wide Web. Read below for tips, best practices and examples! In Libraries, there is usually one person doing all the Marketing, […]
