"World’s Most Destructive Botnet Returns with Stolen Passwords and Email in Tow"
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/worlds-most-destructive-botnet-returns-with-stolen-passwords-and-email-in-tow/
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"Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html
"Windows 10 20H1 Build 18936 Released With Passwordless Sign-in"
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-20h1-build-18936-released-with-passwordless-sign-in/
"Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online"
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw8b9/elsevier-user-passwords-exposed-online
Five Popular Password Managers Evaluated: "Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management"
https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/password-manager-hacking/
Mobile Carriers’ App/Website Cell Phone Log-in Project: "The Devil Is in the Details of Project Verify’s Goal to Eliminate Passwords"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/project-verify
"Change Your Twitter Password Right Now"
https://www.wired.com/story/change-your-twitter-password-right-now/
Digital Repository Deposit: SWORD Course Videos
The SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) project has released a series of tutorial videos. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: An Introduction to SWORD: Gives an overview of SWORD, the rationale behind its creation, and details of the first three funded SWORD projects SWORD Use Cases: Provides an introduction to use cases, and examines … Continue reading “Digital Repository Deposit: SWORD Course Videos”
Institutional Repository Deposit: SWORD v2.0: Deposit Lifecycle
JISC has released SWORD v2.0: Deposit Lifecycle. Here's an excerpt: SWORD is a hugely successful JISC project which has kindled repository interoperability and built a community around the software and the problem space. It explicitly deals only with creating new repository resources by package deposit a simple case which is at the root of its … Continue reading “Institutional Repository Deposit: SWORD v2.0: Deposit Lifecycle“
Digital Repositories: Multiple-Deposit Function Added to EasyDeposit SWORD Client
Stuart Lewis has announced that a multiple-deposit function has been added to the EasyDeposit SWORD client. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: For those of you unfamiliar with EasyDeposit, it is an online tool that allows you to configure your own SWORD client. It is intended that you run multiple copies of EasyDeposit and configure … Continue reading “Digital Repositories: Multiple-Deposit Function Added to EasyDeposit SWORD Client”
EasyDeposit, Toolkit for Creating SWORD Deposit Interfaces, Released
Stuart Lewis has released EasyDeposit, a toolkit for creating SWORD deposit interfaces. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: EasyDeposit allows you to create customised SWORD deposit interfaces by configuring a set of 'steps'. A typical flow of steps may be: login, select a repository, enter some metadata, upload a file, verify the information is correct, … Continue reading “EasyDeposit, Toolkit for Creating SWORD Deposit Interfaces, Released”
SWORD PHP Library Version 0.9
The SWORD PHP library version 0.9 has been released. SWORD is "a lightweight protocol for depositing content from one location to another. It stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit and is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol (known as APP or ATOMPUB)." Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Changed swordappservicedocument to build the … Continue reading “SWORD PHP Library Version 0.9”
SWORD2 Project Final Report
JISC has released SWORD2 Project Final Report. Here's an excerpt: The SWORD vision is about 'lowering the barriers to deposit', primarily for depositing content into repositories, and additionally, for depositing into any system which may wish to receive content from remote sources. The SWORD protocol defines a standard mechanism for depositing into repositories and other … Continue reading “SWORD2 Project Final Report“
Word + SWORD + Ingester = Word to DSpace Deposit
In "Direct from MS Word to DSpace via SWORD," Stuart Lewis describes how to get documents into DSpace from Word via SWORD and a custom DSpace ingester. Here's an excerpt: This complete end to end process allows you to create Word templates, and to mark them up with required and optional fields. It also allows … Continue reading “Word + SWORD + Ingester = Word to DSpace Deposit”
SWORD PHP Library Version 0.7
Stuart Lewis has released the SWORD PHP Library Version 0.7. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: This latest version adds two new features: When performing a deposit, the client now sets the 'Content-Disposition:filename' header so that the SWORD server knows what to name the file. . . . When performing a deposit, the optional X-No-Op … Continue reading “SWORD PHP Library Version 0.7”
SWORD Named Most Innovative Project at JISC Repositories and Preservation Conference
UKOLN's SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) Project was named most innovative project at the JISC Repositories and Preservation conference. Here's an excerpt from the press release: SWORD, whose partners include developers of the DSpace, EPrints, Fedora and IntraLibrary repository software platforms, plus the University of York and CASIS at the University of Wales, has … Continue reading “SWORD Named Most Innovative Project at JISC Repositories and Preservation Conference”
CLASM: Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle
Richard M. Davis has announced that JISC has funded the CLASM (Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle) project. (Moodle is an open source course management system.) Here's an excerpt from the announcement: This will be a six-month project with a double-edged purpose: to develop a SWORD plugin for Moodle, so that it can interact, … Continue reading “CLASM: Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle”
"SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories"
JISC has released "SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories." Here's the abstract: This in-depth article by Sarah Currier, the Product Manager for Intrallect Ltd., introduces SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) to those interested in sharing, reuse, repurposing and management of teaching and learning materials. The article provides an overview … Continue reading “"SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories"”
Open Journal Systems SWORD Plugin
The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories has released a SWORD plugin for Open Journal Systems, which was developed by Scott Yeadon and Leo Monus. The plugin requires "a significant amount of patching to DSpace," and it is recommended that testing be done with Fedora. A new version will be released next year that may eliminate … Continue reading “Open Journal Systems SWORD Plugin”
Repository Deposit Software: SWORD PHP Library Released
Stuart Lewis has released a PHP library for the SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) software. Here's an excerpt from his post: There are many web applications that could deposit into repositories using SWORD, and many of these are written in PHP. Examples might include open source Content Management Systems, Blogs or Wikis. By using … Continue reading “Repository Deposit Software: SWORD PHP Library Released”
Digital Repository Deposit from Facebook Using SWORD
Stuart Lewis of the SWORD 2 project has released a SWORD-based Facebook repository deposit application. Read more about it at "Launched Today: the Facebook Repository Deposit Application."
Repository Deposit Software: Want to Try SWORD with DSpace?
The JISC SWORD 2 project has made a DSpace repository that can be used to test the SWORD deposit software available. Read more about it at "New SWORD Test Repository Available to All."
Microsoft Releases Research-Output Repository Platform Beta 1 and OfficeSWORD
Microsoft Research has released Research-Output Repository Platform Beta 1 and Savas Parastatidis, Architect in the Technical Computing @ Microsoft group, has released OfficeSWORD. Here's an excerpt from the Research-Output Repository Platform's download page: The platform is based on Microsoft's technologies (SQL Server 2008 and .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1) hence taking advantage of their robustness, … Continue reading “Microsoft Releases Research-Output Repository Platform Beta 1 and OfficeSWORD”
DSpace Newsletter Published: DSpace 1.5, User Community Survey, and SWORD
The DSpace Foundation has published the March 2008 issue of its NewSpace newsletter, which includes "DSpace 1.5 Features," "Summary of User Community Survey" "Stuart Lewis and Richard Jones on SWORD" and other articles.
New Mailing Lists: JISC-SHIBBOLETH-LIBRARIES and Sword-app-tech
Two mailing lists have been recently established: JISC-SHIBBOLETH-LIBRARIES and sword-app-tech. Excerpt from the JISC-SHIBBOLETH announcement: Many institutions are now at the stage with their implementation of federated access management where issues directly impacting libraries are being considered and managed. This includes discovery processes for end-users, testing and changing access to federated service providers, dealing with … Continue reading “New Mailing Lists: JISC-SHIBBOLETH-LIBRARIES and Sword-app-tech”