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Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform

Schneier on Security

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. Security vulnerabilities in the update system allows someone to silently inject malicious code into applications. Basically, the Electron ASAR files aren't signed or encrypted, so modifying them is easy.

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Calculating electronic records storage costs

The Schedule

This post will do the same for electronic records and follows the same formula of not taking into account personnel or overhead costs or depreciation of equipment. If you prefer a truncated version of this information, I’ve created a 1-page brochure of questions to consider about electronic records storage costs. On-Premise Storage.

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FAQ: How does web archiving fit into records management?

The Texas Record

Web archiving involves using software to take periodic snapshots to preserve as much data as you need about your organization’s website, including any associated metadata. Records Management for Blogs, Texts, Social Media, Cloud Computing and more! will be, to a greater extent, ready for legal disputes.

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

Today’s post is mainly in response to “ Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives ,” written by Danielle Tcholakian who in turn seems to have been inspired by an article in the Columbia Journalism Review. The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating.

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A Record Center Is Not An Archives: Dispatches from a ARM sector change

The Schedule

Despite this sort of odd present, the position has an exciting future—City Records is going to be merging with the Legislative Reference Bureau library and the Historic Preservation Office to create a City Research Center, the nature of which is still being determined. As opposed to working in the UWM Archives, where we had about 8000 c.f.

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Finding the treasure in governement information management

CILIP

He gives an example from his early days at the Department for the Environment: “I remember in April 1986, I was on the library enquiry desk. Decades later his library role has shifted into managing across the full gamut of KIM-related disciplines, but he is still supporting the Government’s information needs in crises.

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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

I have overseen two significant projects: an electronic discovery production and disaster response and recovery effort. The Office of Archives and Records (OAR) is the official repository for the records of the ANO. The Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter has an office, archives, and an exhibit space.