web 2.0 as a tool of library

These days Libraries are using Web 2.0 tools and technologies in their applications for user services. Library 2.0 is interactive, allowing users to add input such as participatory book reviews, blogs, wikis, social networks, and video- and photo-sharing services to Web sites. Library 2.0 has consequently become very popular. However, the approach's interactivity has also made it popular with hackers.

Library 2.0 applications are openly accessible and dynamically generated. This makes more interesting but also bigger security risks. It lets libraries create and distribute content on social-networking sites such as Flickr, MySpace, Wikipedia, and YouTube. You can upload video, audio, photo, text, and other files for subsequent downloading by others.

However, hackers could include malicious code in the uploaded files. Hackers could use your browsers to initiate requests to your internal servers. This would let hackers access sensitive library data, even if protected by a firewall.

Library 2.0 is extending the scope of the cat-and-mouse game that security researchers have been playing with hackers. As you build up more defenses, people find more creative ways to get around them.

I would suggest the web site managers and servers managers to be regualrly updated with security patches specially with data servers.

with kind regards

P K upadhyay