Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” continues Symantec.

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National Archives Records Express

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

On World Digital Preservation Day , it seems appropriate to share how NARA has developed its digital preservation program in recent years to ensure that the electronic records of the United States government truly are available, as declared in this year’s theme: “For All, For Good, Forever.”. The cloud-based ERA 2.0 development.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Government experts analyzed 10 samples of malware involved in FASTCash attacks, state-sponsored hackers used them to compromise payment “switch application servers” within the targeted banks to facilitate fraudulent transactions. Security Affairs – Hidden Cobra, FastCash ). ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Hello and welcome to a the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 9 November. We responded to this incident by fortifying our log-on and authentication processes, and implemented additional layers of security for digital and mobile access to all personal and business banking accounts. Here are this week’s stories. Versions 2.5.12

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Preservica

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Past winners have included preeminent thought-leaders, educators and practitioners including Richard Marciano (2017), David Giaretta (2012), Charles Dollar (2005), Luciana Duranti (2006), and digital preservation pioneer and author Adrian Brown (2016), to name just a few. (A Visit: www.preservica.com Twitter: @preservica.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Heathrow Airport £120,000 for failing to secure sensitive personal data after a member of public found an unencrypted USB stick containing data about the airport’s staff. The post Heathrow Airport fined £120,000 for data breach appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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Preservica

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Not only does this make it easier for the businesses and local government, but it also broadens public access, opening the archive up to more people than ever before.”. Today the archive holds a variety of items such as building permits, as well as building plans, installation drawings, and government meeting minutes.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2018

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage. The ICO has been informed.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. The backdoor is a standalone DLL (dynamic link library) that interacts with Outlook and The Bat! Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Texas Record

JANUARY 31, 2018

The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) started a new initiative in 2017: organizing regional forums that provide live professional development opportunities to federal, state and local government employees around the country.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency. Yeah, like that. All of which speaks to the power of hacking.

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Archives Blogs

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Newspaper Clippings of Claude Pepper’s Research on Alzheimer’s Disease Claude Pepper Library Collection, Series: 302A, Box 26, Folder 2. Many remember Senator Claude Pepper as the “nation’s spokesman for the elderly,” serving as a chairman of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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The Texas Record

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This is the seventh post of a multi-part recap of the 2017 e-Records Conference. Presentation materials from the conference are available on the e-Records 2017 website. Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed. Establishing Information Governance for Local Governments in Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. Since then, much has been learned about the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) deployed and what steps organizations are taking to harden their network and application security.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ARMA (2017) describes RIM practices as the “knowledge and skills required to systematically manage information assets from creation or receipt through processing, distributing, sharing, using, accessing, organizing, storing and retrieving, and disposing of them. Information Governance (IG). What are traditional RIM practices?

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

John Dolan and Ayub Khan have long shared an interest in the international library scene and how different countries and cultures can share and benefit from each other. Our involvement started when we answered a British Council advertisement, in October 2014, for help with reinstating libraries in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As the Chartered body for library, information and knowledge workers, CILIP has an important responsibility to advocate for the value and impact of our profession locally, nationally across all four nations of the UK and internationally. CILIP is working hard to build a long-term network of influence to secure the interests of our profession.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In other words all the infrastructures, the samples, the command and controls, the domains and IPs, the certificate, the libraries and, general speaking, all the operations that come before the attack phase in term of environments. For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

The growth of DevSecOps tools is an encouraging sign that software and application service providers are increasingly integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Aqua Security Checkmarx Contrast Security Invicti Security Micro Focus Snyk SonarSource Synopsys Veracode WhiteSource. Aqua Security.

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CILIP

JUNE 22, 2020

CILIP is working with the library and knowledge workforce to ensure there are more ways into the job, while maintaining standards. The recent CILIP Library, Information and Knowledge Management (LIKM) Professionalism Review provided a great opportunity to examine with the community how we develop skills in the workforce.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Q: If a ransomware attack happens in the future, is it likely that if tape is used, the attackers will use their system access to attack the tape library and robot since they did not get what they want? As we have seen, hackers keep upping their game and it is just a matter of time before they add attacks on tape robots and libraries.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

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. Perhaps the Government could respond on that point. Where she finds criminality, she can prosecute.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2018

Earlier this month I had a conversation about cyber security that ended with someone offering the familiar opinion: “Oh, I won’t be hacked – our website isn’t very popular”. Flightradar24 suffers security breach. French Data Protection Authority Imposes a Record 250,000 € Fine to Optical Center for a Security Breach on its Website.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

On Digital Preservation Day 2017, Euan Cochrane, Digital Preservation Manager at Yale University Library , discusses the challenges of scale associated with vast collections of born-digital content. This illustrates that, likely without intending to, many libraries have already built large collections of born-digital content.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

In a Monday morning tweet, ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs tweeted: Coming out of a ransomware wknd every CEO shld convene the senior leader team and review security (MFA is on, yeah?), ” Federal and security industry response. Enlisting technologies like CASB , IDPs , SIEM , and EDR for advanced security systems.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites.

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The Schedule

JULY 31, 2017

Despite this sort of odd present, the position has an exciting future—City Records is going to be merging with the Legislative Reference Bureau library and the Historic Preservation Office to create a City Research Center, the nature of which is still being determined. Local government! But anyway!

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IGI

MAY 1, 2018

This publication was written by the Information Governance Initiative as part of our ongoing series exploring issues, strategies, and techniques related to information governance. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of Information Governance (IG), it can sometimes feel like an amorphous topic. About this Publication.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The fastest spreading worm for its time, it caused major overloads on Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange email servers resulting in slowdowns at more than 300 corporations and government agencies, including Microsoft, the Pentagon’s Computer Emergency Response Team, and roughly 250 additional organizations.

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Preservica

APRIL 11, 2018

Oxford, UK and Boston, MA: April 11 2018: The John Lewis Partnership, one of the UK’s leading retail businesses, has selected digital preservation specialist Preservica to build a secure cloud-based business archive. Visit: www.preservica.com Twitter: @preservica. Media enquiries.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 12, 2019

Government records to Argentine Minister of Justice and Human Rights, the Honorable Germán Carlos Garavano. Declassification Project for Argentina, the largest government-to-government declassification release in United States history. documents from 16 Executive Branch agencies were provided to the Government of Argentina.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull bring the case for library funding to Parliament. At a Parliamentary event at the House of Lords today, The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull will join forces with CILIP, the UK library association, to make the case for long-term sustainable funding for libraries.

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