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Archives: cybersecurity

Guest Post — What is Keeping University Chief Information Security Officers Up at Night

An SNSI research project looks at the views of university Chief Information Security Officers toward network security, potential threats, data security, and the risks posed by Sci-Hub.

  • By Susie Winter
  • Apr 21, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Security, Safety, SeamlessAccess

The team behind SeamlessAccess discuss why identity federation promotes security and privacy despite coordinated attacks on access systems

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Hylke Koers, Heather Flanagan
  • Jun 7, 2021
  • 6 Comments

Watch Out for the Silent Librarian: An Interview with Crane Hassold

Silent Librarian is an international phishing organization that “angles” for university network credentials on behalf of the Iranian government. Crane Hassold gives us the lowdown on this dangerous scam.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 27, 2021
  • 7 Comments

Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?

Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments

FBI Indicts Nine Iranians in a Massive Scheme to Target Academic Credentials and Steal Content

At a press conference on Friday last week, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unsealed indictments of nine Iranian citizens. This sentence is an odd way to start a Scholarly Kitchen post, admittedly. What makes this case interesting to […]

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 28, 2018
  • 18 Comments

Publishing in a Time of Information Warfare — A Wakeup Call

The information war requires changes — new research priorities, new personal and professional boundaries, higher editorial hurdles, and a hardened infrastructure.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 3, 2017
  • 15 Comments

STM Week 2016 — Stray Thoughts on Security, Open Access, and Data

A few take-aways from STM Week, including London Information International — why publishers have to take security seriously, why OA may need to itself be disrupted, and why we might want to rethink the “content business” positioning we have.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 14, 2016
  • 5 Comments

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