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Finding the treasure in governement information management

CILIP

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

Security Affairs

The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. In September 2022, Albania blamed Iran for another cyberattack that hit computer systems used by the state police. The cyberattack hit the servers of the National Agency for Information Society (AKSHI), which handles many government services. NATO , and the U.K.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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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. prison system and deported back to Vietnam, Ngo is currently finishing up a mandatory three-week COVID-19 quarantine at a government-run facility. Secret Service.

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FAQ Redux: Can a state agency destroy a paper original after scanning?

The Texas Record

We originally published an article addressing this question back in 2013, but some state agencies have wondered if the answer has changed since the administrative rules were updated this year. While there is not an explicit paragraph in the rules stating that any record can be store electronically, in Section 6.92(4),

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New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

CILIP

Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras. Regulations governing electronic legal deposit often also prescribe how these materials can be accessed.