Learnings from the British Library Cybersecurity Report
The British Library suffered a major cyber attack in October 2023 that encrypted and destroyed servers, exfiltrated 6...
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My View of the NISO Patron Privacy Working Group
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Thursday Threads: Google Maps is Good, DRM is Bad, and Two-factor Authentication can be Ugly
[caption width="360" align="alignright"] Looking at maps, Eastern Carolina University Digital Collections.[/caption] Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p>...
Thursday Threads: All about online privacy, or lack thereof
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Are you paranoid yet? Are you worrie...
Blocking /xmlrpc.php Scans in the Apache .htaccess File
Someone out there on the internet is repeatedly hitting this blog's /xmlrpc.php service, probably looking to enumerate the user accounts on the blog as a pre...
Thursday Threads: Twitter Timeline Changes, Report on Future Library Technology, USB Security
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Thursday Threads: Payment Card Security, Crap Detection, VoIP in your Hand
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Welcome to the revival of DLTJ Thursd...
Thursday Threads: Password Managers, DRM coming to the Browser, Personal Data Brokers
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner It is a security/privacy edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. F...
E-mail Phishing Attempts Get Trickier: Fake bounced mail and Fake mail-from-scanner
Two phishing ((I think these would be classified as spear phishing as defined by Webopedia: "A type of phishing attack that focuses on a single user or depa...
Thursday Threads: Infinite Virtual Bookshelf, Free Learning Management System, List of Cyber Threats
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner Part experimental, part disruption, and part heads-up in this week's e...
PPTP VPN for iOS with AT&T Uverse and DD-WRT
Wandering into public or semi-public wireless networks makes me nervous because I know how my network traffic can be easily watched, and because I'm a geek w...
Encryption of Patron Data in Modern Integrated Library Systems
"How much effort do you want to spend securing your computer systems? Well, how much do you not want to be in front of a reporter's microphone if a security...
Thursday Threads: Estimating and Understanding Big Data, Key Loggers Steal Patron Keystrokes
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner Two entries on big data lead this week's edition of DLTJ Thursday Thre...
Thursday Threads: Unprotected Social Media Sites, Value of Free, and Real Life Net Neutrality
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads by E-mail! Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> This week's Thursday Threads look...
Protect Your Keyboards, Mice and Cables from Theft with a Flat Washer
You are using lockdown security cables to protect your PCs, but your accessories -- keyboards, mice, and other cables -- are still vulnerable to theft. You ...
Thursday Threads: Technical Debt, QR Codes in National Parks, WebP Image Format, and SSL Cautions
Week #2 of this new project to highlight interesting tidbits from the previous seven days. Well, things that were interesting to me that I hope will be inte...
Why I Digitally Sign My E-Mail
Most e-mail messages I send are digitally signed using a process called “Pretty Good Privacy”, or PGP. In e-mail applications that don’t understand PGP, this...
A New Year, a New PGP Key
It is the start of a new year ((Some have even said it is the start of a new decade, but of course that isn’t true. We won’t start a new decade until 2011, ...