Category «Internet»

NIST – Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, Joint Task Force Transformation Initiative, Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory – National Institute of Standards and Technology. April 2013 This publication provides a catalog of security and privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations and a process for selecting controls to protect organizational …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, PC Security

Walk This Way Report Details Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Readable Media

“Written by OCLC Research Diversity Fellow Julianna Barrera-Gomez and Senior Program Officer Ricky Erway, Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Media You Can Read In-house collects the assembled wisdom of experienced practitioners to help those with less experience make appropriate choices in gaining control of born-digital content. It contains discrete steps with …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

NPR Series on Big Data

What Big Data Means For Big Cities, by Adam Frank: “Cities are created human environments. They are ecosystems of energy and matter imagined into existence through human effort. Because cities are essentially ideas transformed into action, they are creatures of information and a Big Data problem. By breathing in the torrents of data cities generate …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

EFF – How Dozens of Companies Know You’re Reading About Those NSA Leaks

Follow up to previous postings on NSA’s big data domestic surveillance program via Micah Lee: “Each time your browser makes a request it sends the following information with it: Your IP address and the exact time of the request User-Agent string: which normally contains the web browser you’re using, your browser’s version, your operating system, processor information …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, Internet, Privacy

Obscured by Clouds or How to Address Governmental Access to Cloud Data from Abroad

Van Hoboken, Joris V. J., Arnbak, Axel and Van Eijk, Nico, Obscured by Clouds or How to Address Governmental Access to Cloud Data from abroad (June 9, 2013). Available at SSRN. “Transnational surveillance is obscured by the cloud. U.S. foreign intelligence law provides a wide and relatively unchecked possibility of access to data from Europeans …

Subjects: Cybercrime, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Army Releases Cybersecurity Handbook to Public

News release: “The Army published a new handbook this month to provide leaders of all levels with the information and tools needed to address today’s cybersecurity challenges, and to ensure organizations adopt the necessary practices to protect their information and the Army network. ..Currently, all Army commands are developing Information Assurance/Cybersecurity awareness training to address …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Government Documents, Internet, PC Security, Privacy

Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Declassify FISA Court Opinions

Follow up to previous postings – this June 11, 2013 news release: “Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), accompanied by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dean Heller (R-NV), Mark Begich (D-AK), Al Franken (D-MN), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), introduced a bill that would put an end to the “secret law” …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

Follow up to previous postings via Facebook Newsroom: “For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U.S. (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests) – was between 9,000 and 10,000. These requests run the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act

Pew – The reinvention of libraries

“Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Internet Project, will present to the Massachusetts Library System the Project’s latest findings about the changing role of libraries and patrons’ interest in new services. He will also describe Project research on the way people use mobile devices and social media.”

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

FCW – NSA shows how big ‘big data’ can be

FCW.com – Frank Konkel -“As reported by Information Week, the NSA relies heavily on Accumulo, “a highly distributed, massively parallel processing key/value store capable of analyzing structured and unstructured data” to process much of its data. NSA’s modified version of Accumulo, based on Google’s BigTable data model, reportedly makes it possible for the agency to …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Society of American Archivists – Managing Born Digital Collections

“Jump In Initiative – We are happy to share the results of the 2013 Jump In initiative. We had twenty-three repositories submit essays documenting their survey work, twenty-three repositories that embarked on the process of managing born-digital records. Congratulations to all of the individuals and repositories that participated this year. Getting started can be the …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Pew – Understanding the Social Media and Technology Landscape

Data to Live By: Understanding the Social Media and Technology Landscape – “New technologies and social media have had a major impact on the way we communicate and live life. Senior Researcher Mary Madden delivered the keynote address for the Lawlor Symposium’s summer seminar, sharing “data to live by” to aid in understanding this new …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

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