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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

Security Affairs

The researchers pointed out that the use of the “script:” prefix demonstrates the exploitation of the vulnerability CVE-2017-8570 , a bypass for CVE-2017-0199. “The lure contained military-related content, suggesting it was targeting military personnel. The remote script, named “widget_iframe.617766616773726468746672726a6834.html,”

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InvisiMole group targets military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe

Security Affairs

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. The attack chain begins with the deployment of a TCP downloader that fetches the next stage payload.

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New Gallmaker APT group eschews malware in cyber espionage campaigns

Security Affairs

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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James Reese Europe: America’s Jazz Ambassador

Unwritten Record

military as a lieutenant during World War I in the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment (known as the “Harlem Hellfighters”), in which he served as a band leader. Europe’s concerts before audiences of French, British, and American military personnel was the birth of European interest in jazz music. First Lieutenant James R.

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

military complex, who got frustrated by their inability to extract actionable intel from a deluge of threat feeds. Consider that 90% of the data that exists in the world was created in two years — 2017 and 2018 — and that our digital universe is on track to swell from 3.2

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Special Media Catalog Updates

Unwritten Record

Motion Picture Library Stock Shots, ca. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities, ca. Photographs Related to Secretary of State Diplomatic Duties, 3/18/2004-11/26/2017 (NAID 85714629; Local Identifier 59-PAD) (180 file unit descriptions and 10,894 born-digital images). Iranian News Reports, ca. 1955 – ca.

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Meet Your 2018-2019 Records Management Section Steering Committee

The Schedule

Eira has worked as the Digital Archivist/Records Manager at the University of Cincinnati’s Archives and Rare Books Library since 2013. Elizabeth is the Archivist for Records Management at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. She previously worked at the Library of Congress.