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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Ebrima">We are delighted to announce that OCLC is using PSI’s IP Intrusion Service block list to provide a new security feature for their latest release.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.oclc.org/en/news/announcements/2019/ezproxy-65.html"><span style="color:windowtext">EZproxy 6.5</span></a></span></span> contains an important feature that incorporates a real-time
call out to a security API that validates the IP address of the requester and logs/denies access if the IP address is a known pirate/hacker. This greatly reduces the time-consuming and manual process of scanning log files for hacked credentials. The API calls
out to a blocklist created by <span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://IP-intrusion.org"><span style="color:windowtext">IP-intrusion.org</span></a></span></i></span> and validated via
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://theIPregistry.org"><span style="color:windowtext">theIPregistry.org</span></a></span></i></span> giving libraries the power to ensure that their verified IP addresses are never included
on the list. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://TheIPregistry.org"><span style="color:windowtext">TheIPregistry.org</span></a></span></i></span> is a repository that contains over 1.5 billion verified IP addresses
from 60,000 content licensing organizations worldwide. Both <i>IP-intrusion.org</i> and
<i>theIPregistry.org</i> are maintained by PSI Ltd. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Ebrima"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Ebrima">The IPs on the list have been identified as the source of spamming, phishing, hacking, and other forms of cyber-crime. The list also incorporates the information identified on the P.R. Butler list. One
major advantage of this block list is that it uses <i>theIPregistry.org</i> as a whitelist, giving libraries the power to ensure that their verified IP addresses are not included on the list. Keeping the IP addresses held within
<i>theIPregistry.org</i> for your organisation up-to-date will ensure that these IPs are never included on the block list. We urge all libraries that haven’t already done so to register a user and confirm the IPs held for their organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Ebrima"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Ebrima"><a href="https://www.publishersolutionsint.com/">PSI</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Ebrima"> is an independent third-party organization, which enables libraries, publishers
and membership societies to work together securely and confidentially towards the common goals of facilitating legitimate access to scholarly content, eradicating IP misuse, eliminating subscription abuse, and combating cybercrime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Ebrima"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Ebrima"><a href="https://www.oclc.org/en/home.html">OCLC</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Ebrima"> is a non-profit global library cooperative providing shared technology services,
original research and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research and innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Ebrima">***Apologies for cross-postings***
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Ebrima;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Debbie Wilton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Ebrima;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Marketing Manager and Library Liaison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Ebrima;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PSI Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please follow us on Twitter:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://twitter.com/ip_registry"><span style="color:blue">https://twitter.com/ip_registry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://twitter.com/PubSolutionsInt"><span style="color:blue">https://twitter.com/PubSolutionsInt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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