Archives Blogs

MARCH 31, 2020

The National Archives is committed to the health and safety of our visitors and staff, and we continue to do our part to prevent the spread of COVID-19. National Archives Building, Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. NPRC’s holdings include medical records and patient clinical records from military hospitals across the world.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

According to the media outlet, the incident resulted in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature. At the time the company only confirmed an internal investigation on a problem related to “10GB of data storage.”. GB archive called “STRATEGICPLANNINGpart62.zip” Source BleepingComputer.

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Preservica

JULY 26, 2018

The world’s largest grassroots human rights organization will use Preservica’s active digital preservation platform to create a global archive that will accelerate investigations into human rights violations and protect digital records of significant historical importance to the global movement. Oxford, UK and Boston, MA.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. The emails used weaponized Microsoft Word documents exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. com specified in the administrator’s contact data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

Below is the list of the most recent organizations targeted by the collective that also leaked stolen data through the DDoSecrets platform: CorpMSP is a federal institution providing support to small and medium-sized businesses. The leaked files documented these allegations , they were quickly removed from Mega. We have 675GB of data.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

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Preservica

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The economic slowdown added new realities of shifting to digital working, and regional conflicts, like the War in Ukraine, reminded us to record events as history unfolds—no matter how gruelling it is to document. Since its launch in 2021, our Community Hub has grown to over 2,400 members! Their success is our success.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Fancy Bear APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The phishing messages come with an attachment document that is blank and references a remote template, wordData. It also contains an embedded ZIP archive that the macros dropped and extracted.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

The discovered attack appears to be designed to lure military personnel: it leverage a legit document of the “State of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” dated back in the 2nd April 2019. Figure 1: Fake document shown after infection. The origin of the infection is an executable file pretending to be an RTF document.

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The Texas Record

MAY 18, 2021

Barry Primes has spent 30 years in records management in the federal, local, military, and private sector. BP : Well, I have always worked with records, dating back to my days in the military when working in an orderly room or admin (administrative) area. JEC: What attracted you to the records management field?

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AIIM

MARCH 13, 2018

On the one hand , technology has revolutionized both the access and potential value of very long-term archival information -- much of which originated as paper -- exposing it to the light of day after years in the basement and giving it new life. I remember the first time I went to the Archives. Why didn’t I just do a web search?

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The Texas Record

JUNE 3, 2021

Barry Primes has spent 30 years in records management in the federal, local, military, and private sectors. Recently, Primes moved to Houston after retiring from the National Archives and Records Administration. We hope you find the interview both informative and interesting—we certainly enjoyed this discussion.

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National Archives Records Express

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I was responsible for training development, design, assessment and evaluations that supported the organization’s digital documentation improvement and change management plan. While I have seen National Treasure, most of what I knew about NARA was through the museum and exhibits at Archives I downtown.

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Everteam

MARCH 14, 2019

The platform which was designed by Everteam, linked more than 180 government entities within the Kingdom in various sectors including civil and military bodies, institutions and companies. The overall progress includes managing and archiving documents with the application of security standards.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ).

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Everteam

MARCH 14, 2019

The platform which was designed by Everteam, linked more than 180 government entities within the Kingdom in various sectors including civil and military bodies, institutions and companies. The overall progress includes managing and archiving documents with the application of security standards.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This map represents one of the first American attempts to translate census data into a visual representation on a map. Coastal Survey using statistical data from the 1860 census. We encourage you to visit the Cartographic Research Room in College Park, Maryland in person or browse the National Archives Catalog online to find others!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

The recently patched vulnerability affecting the popular archiver utility WinRAR has been exploited to deliver new malware to targeted users. The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

28, 2023, researchers at the Chinese security firm DarkNavy published a blog post purporting to show evidence that a major Chinese ecommerce company’s app was using this same three-exploit chain to read user data stored by other apps on the affected device, and to make its app nearly impossible to remove.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Specifically, the film documents the United States Air Force and Navy findings after borrowing a MIG-21 fighter jet for testing. military aircraft of similar type in tactical combat conditions and simulations to gain as much information as possible from the aircraft. In fact, in order to obtain better data to help pilots, the U.S.

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