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Readers of eBooks are in for an even better experience when they borrow from their North Yorkshire library.
They will soon be able to borrow free eBooks via the BorrowBox app.
BorrowBox is the UK’s most popular platform for eBooks and eAudiobooks, with the widest range of titles and the most intuitive interface. The BorrowBox app incorporates an eBook reader as well as an eAudiobook player and is available to download to mobile devices free from the App Store and Google Play.
Chrys Mellor, General Manager for North Yorkshire Libraries, said: “We are really excited about the move to BorrowBox, for eBooks. We feel that it will improve the ease of use for our customers. BorrowBox is considered the best solution for accessibility, with a clear interface, one-click functionality and easy navigation. We think it will inspire existing users and engage new ones.
“We are working with our suppliers to make sure the changeover is as smooth as possible. However, any titles customers already have reserved will need to be re-borrowed on the BorrowBox platform. They will be able to finish reading books taken out before 22 April, though not renew them on Libby after that date.
“Members of North Yorkshire libraries have been able to borrow eBooks since 2010 and 5,000 readers log on every month to borrow from the huge range of titles available 24/7. We look forward to welcoming lots more readers in the future.
BorrowBox will replace the county’s existing Overdrive/Libby service for eBooks. The change applies only to eBooks. To maintain the service’s offer of the widest range of eAudio titles, listeners will still be able to download them from Libby and Ulverscroft, as well as from BorrowBox.
Chrys added: “Get the BorrowBox app now and be ready to borrow and download eBooks from BorrowBox from 22 April. If you need any help, please ask at your local library. On your phone, tablet or home computer, the doors to your local library never close.”
Learn more about North Yorkshire Libraries’ digital service.
Find out more about BorrowBox.

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The county council provides services across North Yorkshire including Harrogate, Ripon, Scarborough, Whitby, Northallerton, Thirsk, Selby, Tadcaster, Malton, Pickering, Richmond, Skipton and more.

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Today, Amazon is rolling out its latest selection of First Reads FREE eBooks now that a new month has arrived. Throughout all of May, anyone subscribed to Amazon’s Prime 2-day shipping service is now able to receive early access to new Kindle books for FREE (Reg. $6) before these titles are released. Head below for a look at this month’s freebies.
First up, go swing by the Amazon First Reads hub to see each of this month’s selection of free titles. Prime members can download one of the eight eBooks to a Kindle device or to the free iOS/Android app. But even those without a subscription can still add an individual title to your collection for $1.99, down from the usual $6 price tag. Either way, your new eBook becomes a permanent part of your library.
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CHONGQING, CHINA – 2016/08/16: Kindle on a sofa. Amazon released a new entry level Kindle in the … [+] mid of 2016. Now Amazon has a whole and largest e-book ecosystem. (Photo by Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Amazon Kindle is a great invention. The latest version of its top-flight Kindle Oasis is just spectacular.
No, no, of course it can’t compete with a book, with its sumptuous feel and pristine ink, its brilliant tactile qualities and so on. Not to mention the lack of need for batteries.
But the ebook reader has many other advantages, like compactness, lightness (no matter how many books are on board), search engines that outdo most book indexes and the facility to download a new book wherever you are, without even getting up from your sun bed on the beach, you lazy thing.
Except, that last brilliant feature may be about to stop on some Kindles in the coming months, from December this year, apparently. It’s what Amazon describes as some prior models and, to be fair to the company, it’s not its fault.
The brilliant Kindle Oasis.
It’s because internet connectivity on many Kindles uses wi-fi but also 2G and 3G cellular connections and some Mobile Network Operators are phasing these out.
It means that many Kindles, as soon as the phasing out has happened, will only have wifi connectivity. This is a shame, as buying a Kindle with cellular connectivity has always attracted a premium on the price. Again, it’s not Amazon which is closing down the networks.
But there’s worse news for owners of the first- and second-generation Kindles and the larger-screened Kindle DX. They only went online to download new books via cellular connections, so they won’t be able to connect wirelessly at all.
Amazon points out that the titles you’ve already bought and downloaded will still be there, but these devices won’t have internet connectivity any more. Period. And while that’s not quite the same as the device stopping working, some owners may feel it’s not far off.
The original Amazon Kindle.
Now, the first Kindle came out in 2007, so it has had around 14 years of cellular connection, which is pretty impressive.
Other Kindles which are affected, according to a support page from Amazon, are: Kindle Keyboard 3^rd generation, Kindle Touch (4th Generation), Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation)/(6th Generation)/(7th Generation), Kindle Voyage (7th Generation) and Kindle Oasis (8th Generation).
These are the readers with cellular connectivity but no 4G connection, and these will become wi-fi only devices when the signal goes.
So, what to do? Well, there’s a trade-in program which is available. But, additionally, Amazon sent emails to some of its U.S. customers on Wednesday, according to The Verge, which is where Amazon states that the connectivity change starts at the end of 2021.  
And in this email, Amazon has sent these customers a promotion code valid for the next couple of weeks. It offers $50 off a new Kindle Paperwhite or Oasis, plus $15 in credits for ebooks. It seems if you have an older Kindle ,the deals get even better. For instance, if you’re that most loyal of customers, someone with the very first-generation Kindle, then you’ll get the latest top-flight Oasis and a cover free. That’s pretty cool (though, honestly, if you’ve been using that Kindle for that long you really deserve an upgrade). Here’s what the company told The Verge:
“For customers with Kindle (1^st Generation), Amazon is offering a free Kindle Oasis (10^th Generation) device and cover.
“Customers with Kindle (1st and 2nd Generation), Kindle DX (2nd Generation), and Kindle Keyboard (3rd Generation) can receive $70 off a new Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Oasis, plus $25 in ebook credits.
“Customers with Kindle Touch (4th Generation), Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation, 6th Generation, and 7th Generation), Kindle Voyage (7th Generation), and Kindle Oasis (8th Generation) can receive $50 off a new Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Oasis, plus $15 in ebook credits.”
In the long run, it may make people feel they will choose wi-fi versions rather than paying the extra for cellular connectivity. That said, if the latest cellular-connected Kindles offer it for the 14 years that the original Kindle has, that seems a pretty good deal.

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Everyone is paying for books when they don’t have to. There’s so many ways to read almost anything ever published, for free, that it borders on the obscene. Libraries: They’re good! Sure, if you want the latest release from your favorite author you either have to pay or wait for a copy from the library, but for millions of older books, you can get a digital version, legally, for free. One secret of the publishing industry is that most American books published before 1964 never extended their copyright, meaning they’re in the public domain today.
Prior to 1964, books had a 28-year copyright term. Extending it required authors or publishers to send in a separate form, and lots of people didn’t end up doing that. Thanks to the efforts of the New York Public Library, many of those public domain books are now free online. Through the 1970s, the Library of Congress published the Catalog of Copyright Entries, all the registration and renewals of America’s books. The Internet Archive has digital copies of these, but computers couldn't read all the information and figuring out which books were public domain, and thus could be uploaded legally, was tedious. The actual, extremely convoluted specifics of why these books are in the public domain are detailed in a post by the New York Public Library, which recently paid to parse the information in the Catalog of Copyright Entries.
In a massive undertaking, the NYPL converted the registration and copyright information into an XML format. Now, the old copyrights are searchable and we know when, and if, they were renewed. Around 80 percent of all the books published from 1923 to 1964 are in the public domain, and lots of people had no idea until now.
It amounts to an explosion of new books once lost to the mire of potential copyright claims. And they’re all free. The Hathi Trust, a digital library similar to Project Gutenberg, has already uploaded some of the newly freed books. Leonard Richardson, a blogger and programer in New York City, has been following the saga of the newly public domain books and writing about it on his site News You Can Bruise.
When the books started hitting the internet, Richardson created a Mastodon bot called Secretly Public Domain which posts a newly discovered book from the collection every day.
“The public domain belongs to everybody,” Richardson said in an email. “I think this is really important in a world where popular culture is increasingly owned by a few companies. You can read a public domain book for free, and you can use it as raw material for your creativity without asking permission. And once someone makes a good electronic copy of a public domain work, it's less likely to be lost forever than an in-copyright work.”
Richardson has already found a few books he’s personally interested in. “I'm interested in computer history, so almost the first thing I did was check for that, but not a lot of computer books were published before the 1964 cutoff,” he said. “The first edition of The compatible time-sharing system:a programmer's guide was registered in 1963 and not renewed; that book describes a system that's pretty important to the history of computing.”
Guttenberg and Hathi aren’t the only places to get free books. Many libraries offer digital and audio books, for free, as a benefit of membership. Reading a classic or a new release can be a simple as getting a library card and downloading an app. “For high-quality electronic presentations of public domain titles I recommend Standard Ebooks,” Richardson said. “They're a real pleasure to read.”
Correction: A previous version of this article identified Richardson as living in Los Angeles. While he was born there, he now lives in New York City. Additionally, his site 'News You Can Bruise' was originally identified as 'Now You Can Bruise.' Motherboard regrets the errors.
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Threat actors have been distributing malicious applications under the guise of seemingly harmless shopping apps to target customers of eight Malaysian banks since at least November 2021.
The attacks involved setting up fraudulent but legitimate-looking websites to trick users into downloading the apps, Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
The copycat websites impersonated cleaning services such as Maid4u, Grabmaid, Maria’s Cleaning, Maid4u, YourMaid, Maideasy and MaidACall and a pet store named PetsMore, all of which are aimed at users in Malaysia.
“The threat actors use these fake e-shop applications to phish for banking credentials,” ESET said. “The apps also forward all SMS messages received by the victim to the malware operators in case they contain 2FA codes sent by the bank.”
The targeted banks include Maybank, Affin Bank, Public Bank Berhad, CIMB bank, BSN, RHB, Bank Islam Malaysia, and Hong Leong Bank.
The websites, distributed through Facebook ads, urge visitors to download what the attackers claim to be are Android apps available on the Google Play Store, but in reality, redirect them to rogue servers under their control.
It’s worth noting here that the attack hinges on the prerequisite that the potential victims enable the non-default “Install unknown apps” option on their devices for it to succeed. What’s more, five of the abused services don’t even have an app on Google Play.
Once launched, the apps prompt the users to sign in to their accounts, allowing them to place fake orders, following which options are presented to complete the checkout process by including a fund transfer from their bank accounts.
“After picking the direct transfer option, victims are presented [with] a fake FPX payment page and asked to choose their bank out of the eight Malaysian banks provided, and then enter their credentials,” ESET malware researcher Lukáš Štefanko said.
The ultimate goal of the campaign is to steal the banking credentials entered by the users and exfiltrate it to the attacker-controlled server, while displaying an error message that the entered user ID or password is invalid.
In addition, the fake apps are engineered to access and transmit all SMS messages received by the users to the remote server in the event the bank accounts are secured by two-factor authentication.
“While the campaign targets Malaysia exclusively for now, it might expand to other countries and banks later on,” Štefanko said. “At this time, the attackers are after banking credentials, but they may also enable the theft of credit card information in the future.”
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During the last week of March, three major tech companies – Microsoft, Okta, and HubSpot – reported significant data breaches. DEV-0537, also known as LAPSUS$, performed the first two. This highly sophisticated group utilizes state-of-the-art attack vectors to great success. Meanwhile, the group behind the HubSpot breach was not disclosed. This blog will review the three breaches based on publicly disclosed information and suggest best practices to minimize the risk of such attacks succeeding against your organization.
On March 21, 2022, HubSpot reported the breach which happened on March 18. Malicious actors compromised a HubSpot employee account that the employee used for customer support. This allowed malicious actors the ability to access and export contact data using the employee’s access to several HubSpot accounts.
With little information regarding this breach, defending against an attack is challenging, but a key configuration within HubSpot can help. This is the “HubSpot Employee Access” control (shown in the figure below) in HubSpot’s account setting. Customers should disable this setting at all times, unless they require specific assistance, and then immediately turn it off after completing the service call.
A similar setting appears in other SaaS applications and should be disabled there as well. Employee access is typically recorded in Audit Logs, which should be reviewed regularly.
Learn how an SSPM can help protect your organization from SaaS misconfigurations
Okta subcontracts some of its customer support to the Sitel Group. On January 21, an Okta security team member received an alert that a new MFA factor was added to a Sitel Group employee account from a new location.
An investigation revealed that a Sitel support engineer’s computer was compromised using a remote desktop protocol. This known vulnerability is normally disabled except when specifically needed — which helped Okta investigators narrow the timeframe for the attack to a five-day window between Jan. 16-21, 2022.
Due to the limited access support engineers have to their system, the impact on Okta customers was minimal. Support engineers don’t have access to create or delete users or download customer databases. Their access to customer data is quite limited as well.
On March 22, DEV-0537, which is more commonly known as LAPSUS$, shared screenshots online. In response, Okta released a statement saying, “there are no corrective actions our customers need to take.” The following day the company shared details of its investigation, which included a detailed response timeline.
While this breach was limited in the damage it caused, it offers three important security lessons.
See Cloudflare’s investigation of the January 2022 Okta compromise for a good example of a response to such a breach.
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On March 22, Microsoft Security shared information relating to an attack it suffered at the hands of DEV-0537. Microsoft had a single account compromised, which resulted in source code being stolen and published.
Microsoft assured its users that the LAPSUS$ attack didn’t compromise any of their information, and further stated that there was no risk to any of their products due to the stolen code.
Microsoft did not specifically share how the breach was carried out, although it did alert readers that LAPSUS$ actively recruits employees at telecoms, major software developers, call centers, and other industries to share credentials.
The company also offered these suggestions for securing platforms against these attacks.
For a full list of Microsoft’s recommendations, see this note.
Securing SaaS platforms is a major challenge, and as seen this week, even global enterprises need to stay on top of their security. Malicious actors continue to evolve and improve their attack methods, which forces organizations to be on the lookout and prioritize their SaaS security constantly.
Strong passwords and SSO solutions are no longer enough by themselves. Companies need advanced security measures, such as strong MFA, IP allow lists, and blocking unnecessary support engineer access. An automated solution like SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) can help security teams stay on top of these issues.
The importance of device security in SaaS is another takeaway from these attacks. Even a fully secured SaaS platform can be compromised when a privileged user accesses a SaaS app from a compromised device. Leverage a security solution that combines device security posture with SaaS security posture for full, end-to-end protection.
The challenge of securing SaaS solutions is complex and beyond burdensome to complete manually. SSPM solutions, like Adaptive Shield, can provide automated SaaS security posture management, with configuration control, endpoint posture management, and 3rd party application control.
Note — This article is written and contributed by Hananel Livneh, Senior Product Analyst at Adaptive Shield.
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