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Archives Month: Web Archive (WARC) File Format

The Texas Record

It’s October, which means that it is once again time to celebrate American Archives Month ! First on the docket: web archiving. Web archiving requires the use of a preservation format that maintains all hyperlinked content and metadata in its original context. Store the harvested data in a web archive format, like WARC.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007. ru in its early years, but for a brief period in 2007 it appears this website was inadvertently exposing all of its file directories to the Internet. ru in 2008.

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A 15-Year-Old Unpatched Python bug potentially impacts over 350,000 projects

Security Affairs

More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by an unpatched Python vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 (CVSS score: 6.8), that was discovered 15 years ago. dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. As we dug into the issue, we realized this was in fact CVE-2007-4559.”

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

Since at least 2007, Web Listings Inc. The mailer references the domain name web-listings.net , one of several similarly-named domains registered sometime in 2007 or later to a “ James Madison ,” who lists his address variously as a university in New Britain, Connecticut or a UPS Store mailbox in Niagara Falls, New York.

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Exploring the Alicia Korenman Graphic Novels Collection (1983-2007)

Archives Blogs

Will Eisner Week kicked off on March 1 st , so it’s a great time to remind library users of the rich graphic novel and comics resources available in Special Collections & Archives. Special Collections & Archives encourage students, faculty, and members of. The self-published and small-scale.

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BEST PRACTICES: Why pursuing sound ‘data governance’ can be a cybersecurity multiplier

The Last Watchdog

In fact, there’s a strong case to be made for meticulously archiving all stored data, as well as getting on a routine of purging unneeded data on a regular basis. as a company grows, and as the amount of data grows, there is a need for archiving, based on how actively things are changing and what you need to get to, and when.”

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Teaching and learning web archiving: An interview with Samantha Abrams and Joe Schill

Archive-It

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Since 2007, Archive-It educational partnerships have connected graduate and undergraduate students to the technology, instruction, and resources that they need to curate and preserve web archive collections. KB: Samantha, can you introduce us to your students?