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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
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Fixing Instead of Breaking, Part Three — Blockchain, RA21, Privacy, and Trust

We continue to battle the tidal wave of data with a bucket brigade of individual privacy settings. Maybe it’s time to pause and consider a state-level solution, ala Estonia.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 23, 2018
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Locks, Keys, and Firewalls — Why Internet Security Requires Digital, Analog . . . and Diligent Humans

Internet security seems to be crumbling before our eyes, and our media and leaders are not immune and lack a crucial understanding of how vulnerable a totally digital world can be. The answer may lie with analog technologies.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Aug 10, 2016
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post: The American Chemical Society on the Shared Cybersecurity Concerns of Universities and Publishers

Jack Ochs from the American Chemical Society discusses the significant increase in cybersecurity threats to both publishers and libraries.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Jun 17, 2016
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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