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Visual Cues and Clues: Born-Digital Photographs and their Metadata

Unwritten Record

A clear positive for digital copies is that physical space is no longer the largest obstacle for housing records, however, one of the lesser-thought of positives is embedded metadata. Similar to a hand-written caption on the back of a photographic print, embedded metadata can provide identifying information found within the digital file.

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Latest Turla backdoor leverages email PDF attachments as C&C mechanism

Security Affairs

. “These organizations are the latest known additions to the list of victims of this APT group that has been targeting governments, state officials, diplomats, and military authorities since at least 2008.” ” Information is exfiltrated by generating a PDF with the siphoned data and sent out via emails and message metadata.

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The Human Rights web archive collection at Columbia University Libraries?

Archive-It

by Alex Thurman, Head of Web Collecting, Columbia University Libraries Columbia University Libraries’ web collecting program began in 2008, with the goal of ensuring that selected freely available web resources remain accessible for current and future researchers.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

It will ensure that libraries can continue to archive material, that journalists can continue to enjoy the freedoms that we cherish in this country, and that the criminal justice system can continue to keep us safe. Of course, as new rights like this are created, the Bill will ensure that they cannot be taken too far.

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