Archives Blogs

MARCH 4, 2020

In February 2020, NARA took occupancy of new archival storage space for congressional records on the third floor of the Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) Building A, located on North Capitol Street in Washington, DC. The Center for Legislative Archives , the custodial unit responsible for the permanent, official records of the U.S.

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Archives Blogs

MAY 14, 2019

The University of Stirling Archives is delighted to offer a six week trainee post funded by the Musicians’ Union to work on their extensive archive, improving access to this unique research resource. In 2016 a new history of the Union was published which has generated further interest in the collection (Cloonan, M.

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Preservica

AUGUST 19, 2016

A look back at Archives*Records 2016 and an insightful week in digital preservation. With so many of our users in town, it was the perfect opportunity to host the Preservica 2016 North American User Group. Thank you to all those that attended one of the Preservica sessions and visited the team at the booth.

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Preservica

JULY 18, 2019

Colorado and Alaska State Archives are the latest government agencies to join the growing community of public sector organizations using Preservica’s cloud-hosted (SaaS) active digital preservation platform to meet state mandates and public records laws to preserve and provide greater access to permanent and historical government records.

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The Schedule

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

She will be talking about the report on her Institutional Placement Survey — Records Management and Archival Services. Institutional archives and records management programs provide such a wide variety of services that institutions often “struggle to fit” them within administrative offices.

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Archive-It

JULY 28, 2020

by the Archive-It team. Archived web data and collections are increasingly important to scholarly practice, especially to those scholars interested in data mining and computational approaches to analyzing large sets of data, text, and records from the web. The Archives Unleashed team brings together a team of co-investigators.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

On World Digital Preservation Day 2018, Sylvain Bélanger, Director General of Digital Operations and Preservation at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) discusses operating at scale, the challenges of preserving high volume born-digital content, and giving Canadians greater access to Canada’s continuing memory.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. Any United States organization involved in web archiving or in the process of planning a web archive is encouraged to take the survey.

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Archive-It

JUNE 30, 2017

Are you a public librarian interested in expanding your local history collections to include web archives? The Community Webs program is offered by the Internet Archive in partnership with WebJunction, and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. by Sylvie Rollason-Cass. If so, you’re in luck!

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The International Council on Archives (ICA) is dedicated to records management and the preservation of the world’s archival heritage. For over 60 years, the ICA has united archival institutions and practitioners across the world to share industry knowledge and expertise. Advocating Access.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits. At the end of October 2016, the hackers leaked a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

An insightful few days in Archiving & Digital Preservation. Earlier this month the Archives & Records Association (ARA) held their annual members conference in Wembley, London. The event brought together archivists and records managers from across Europe, including many Preservica Users.

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Archives Blogs

MAY 24, 2018

When the National Archives launched History Hub in January 2016, we hoped it would be a game-changing way to provide access to information and diverse sources of expertise. Here’s what has happened on History Hub since January 2016: Questions asked: 968. Answers posted: 1,068. Registered users: 4,355. Unique visitors: 71,275.

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Preservica

APRIL 18, 2016

To ensure everyone had the best experience possible we held this year’s meeting at Queens College, steeped in history and with an enviable archive and library of its own it was the perfect location to host our users. The 2016 User Group was a brilliant learning opportunity, and much enjoyed by all who attended.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2024

Her work has included setting up heritage initiatives: Lost Legends: 30 Years of Black History Month in Leicester (2016-2017) and Archiving the Past: Reflecting the Future (2018-2020). What light has your archiving experience shed on IP problems?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The archive includes confidential information, malicious codes, and exploits specifically designed to target popular products from various IT companies, including Samsung, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The huge trove of data, called “ Vault 7 ,” exposed the hacking capabilities of the US Intelligence Agency and its internal infrastructure.

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Archives Blogs

DECEMBER 22, 2017

When the White House decides what they would like to give, we create lovely archival facsimiles that will be presented to the head of state. Records of the National Park Service, National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 241, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, National Archives and Records Administration.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2020

US military claims to have disrupted the online propaganda activity of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016. “Today the National Security Archive is releasing 6 USCYBERCOM documents obtained through FOIA which shed new light on the campaign to counter ISIS in cyberspace.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

” The infection chain begins with a spear-phishing message written in Spanish that includes a link that points to a website that further downloads a malicious ZIP archive on the victim’s machine. .” The ZIP archive contains the Grandoreiro Loader module with a PDF Icon in order to lure the victim into opening it.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 5, 2018

by the Archive-It team. Join Archive-It partners, Internet Archive staff, and friends in Seattle, WA! Join the next quarterly update call with Archive-It. with Internet Archive Web Archiving Director Jefferson Bailey and Senior Program Manager Lori Donovan will be at 11AM Pacific, 2PM Eastern on Wednesday, January 23.

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Archives Blogs

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The University of Virginia Library is pleased to announce Phase II of the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Cooperative program. National Archives and Records Administration, and 27 other Cooperative members. state archive, two documentary editing projects, an individual scholar, and several new academic research libraries.

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

by the Archive-It team. The Community Webs cohort of public librarians kicking off their program at the Internet Archive on November 3. Watch this space and the Archive-It blog for updates from the cohort and Internet Archive staff on their progress, lessons-learned, and new open educational resources. Community News.

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Archives Blogs

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I could not have written my last book, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America— nor have won the Pulitzer Prize for it—without the National Archives. There are plenty of sources about battles, but the information I needed on Custer as middle manager could be found only in the National Archives.

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 18, 2023

PUBLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FURNISHED BY THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES STILL PICTURE BRANCH-RRSS Generally, copies of photographic records held by the National Archives may be published without special permission or additional fees. The National Archives does not grant exclusive or non-exclusive publication privileges.

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Archives Blogs

AUGUST 26, 2019

During the summer of 2019 Lorna Keddie, a graduate of the University of Stirling in Heritage and Tourism undertook a traineeship in the University Archives funded by the Musicians’ Union. Here she writes about her work improving access to this unique resource.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

MassaCarrara Web Archives. Administrator Username & Password To Access Archive: [link]. State Archive of Palermo. Archive Administrative Usernames & Password: [link]. Leaked Archive: [link]. State Archives S.I.A.S. Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Between 2014 and 2016 the group used a new custom malware dubbed Carbanak that is considered a newer version of Anunak. Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. The two archives were both uploaded two years ago from the same Russian IP address.

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Archives Blogs

AUGUST 2, 2018

In early 2014 the University Archives was contacted by William Simpsons , a care home in Plean which provides residential care along with respite and day care facilities. The material complimented the historical records of NHS Forth Valley , held in the University Archives and it was transferred to the University Of Stirling.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

The issue affects multiple Microsoft Office versions, including Office, Office 2016, and Office 2021. Researchers from Proofpoint reported that China-linked TA413 APT group is conducting a spear-phishing campaign that uses ZIP archives containing weaponized Word Documents. doc”) that was uploaded to VirusTotal from Belarus.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

“During our research, we were able to identify strong links between a Crutch dropper from 2016 and Gazer. The latter, also known as WhiteBear, was a second-stage backdoor used by Turla in 2016-2017.” ” reads the report published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Marriott International has bought Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide in 2016 for $13 billion. Two months later, on November 19, an investigation confirmed the intrusion into the archive containing “guest information relating to reservations at Starwood properties on or before September 10, 2018.”. The brand includes St.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

That VAT number — first noted by the blog Krabsonsecurity.com (which borrows heavily from this site’s design and banner but otherwise bears no relation to KrebsOnSecurity.com) — has since been removed from the RevCode Web site and from historic records at The Internet Archive.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

At a recent award ceremony held in Hong Kong, Simon Chu was honored for his sustained international leadership over the past several decades on issues involving the governance and preservation of archives. A complete list of past winners can be found at www.emmettleahyaward.org ). Last year’s winner of the Emmett Leahy Award, former U.S.

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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) is thrilled to announce the organization has reached a new and historic membership milestone with the addition of its 1,000th member!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

The group is believed to be a nation-state actor that has been active since at least 2016, but remained under the radar since 2019. Threat actors distributed the LNK file bundled in an archive via spear-phishing messages. The archive contains two LNK files and a PDF document, all of them referencing Zeplin.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

24, 2016 with the domain registrar Dynadot. And the profile link on the auto forum leads to another now-defunct but still-archived personal site for Sergey. One forum member commented that they found their own payment data in the logs. How WeLeakInfo stacked up against its competitors (according to WLI). design was registered on Aug.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Previously she led teaching and research into archives and records at Victoria University of Wellington and the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. She holds a PhD in archival science from the University of British Columbia. She also taught archival studies at the University of Amsterdam.

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