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Introducing ARCHWay

Archive-It

In line with our goal to make computational research (text and data mining, AI, machine learning, etc.) and education with digital collections more accessible we are introducing ARCHWay – a free to use ARCH service tier.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

“On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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NIST Issues Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing

Hunton Privacy

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) has issued draft Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (SP 800-144) (the “Guidelines”) for public comment. Ensure that the client-side computing environment meets organizational security and privacy requirements for cloud computing. Precaution.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io. ” A teaser from Irish Tech News. “Online[.]io

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Data Breach Bills Clear Senate Judiciary Committee

Hunton Privacy

On September 22, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved three separate bills that would establish a national data breach notification standard. The Data Breach Notification Act of 2011 (the “Feinstein Bill”), is the fifth such bill introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). Read our prior coverage of the Leahy Bill.

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Canadian Anti-Spam Regulations Released for Comment

Hunton Privacy

CASL imposes a consent-based anti-spam regime that restricts organizations’ ability to send commercial electronic messages. Industry Canada’s draft regulations were published on July 9, 2011. The draft regulations define the scope of a key exception to the requirement to obtain consent for the sending of commercial electronic messages.