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GDPR has been in effect since May 2018, but organizations are still waiting to see what impact it will have on the costs organizations might face from breach cleanup, investigations, sanctions and class action lawsuits, says Ian Thornton-Trump of the financial services firm AMTrust International MORE
” TOXIC WASTE CLEANUP IS HARD. As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. MORE
TSLAC’s state records management assistance has archived over 20 webinars (45 minutes each) including a 30-minute online introductory video and webinars on electronic records management, digital imaging, shared drive cleanup, emergency planning and more. Mark your calendars! The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) are offering a bountiful harvest of free and low-cost learning opportunities in October. MORE
For more help with this, contact your analyst or read some organization tips on our shared drive cleanup success story post. MORE
But we are here to help with tips and guidance on how to do a cleanup of your office’s records if there is any time in the new year to get started. Let us know in the comments if you’ve got any personal tips for doing major cleanups of records that are eligible for disposition. You don’t have to – and probably shouldn’t! – use the trendy KonMari method of cleaning and organizing when it comes to managing government records. MORE
The standards were influenced by recommendations from the committee that is leading our division’s shared drive cleanup as well as other best practices for naming electronic records. This is a guest post by Reference Librarian Mackenzie Ryan from TSLAC’s ARIS division. MORE
Upon manually discovering the breach, Equifax spent 60 days of investigating it, followed by a several months long cleanup period. Corporate America’s love affair with cloud computing has hit a feverish pitch. Yet ignorance persists when it comes to a momentous challenge at hand: how to go about tapping the benefits of digital transformation while also keeping cyber exposures to a minimum level. MORE
Which, after a little cleanup, becomes: CallByName CreateObject (“wScript.Shell”), “Run”, VbMethod, “powershell wscript /e:jscript “c:usersadminappdataroamingmicrosoftwordstartupstati_stic.inf:com1””, 0. Malware researc h ers at Yoroi -Cybaze analyzed the TrickBot dropper, a threat that has infected victims since 2016. Introduction. TrickBot it is one of the best known Banking Trojan which has been infecting victims since 2016, it is considered a cyber-crime tool. MORE
As the white paper addresses, “…a good go-forward strategy must be married to the cleanup approach. Whichever approach you start with, cleanup or go-forward, you will almost certainly be able to repurpose the information you learned to the other side of this two-pronged approach.”. MORE
The move is part a wider push to make Twitter “healthier,” which includes ridding the platform of spam and abuse. Security MORE
There ARE impacts – fines, breach cleanup costs, short-term reputation impacts, and so on. One of the most common questions I hear debated in infosec (usually rhetorical) is – “what will it take for management to realize how important security is?” MORE
You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. Weigh those costs against the cost of a data cleanup tool and the work required to implement and manage it. It shouldn’t be difficult to show ROI for data cleanup compared to the potential costs of fines. We’ve outlined four ways you can prove to management that data cleanup is not just essential, but an effective way to save money and avoid costs. MORE
We put together this tip sheet in the context of file share cleanups and how you can determine whether information is still of value. This means that before starting any comprehensive cleanup initiative, at least for information that did have business value at one point, it’s important to get records management, legal, risk, compliance, whoever it is that owns those functions involved. MORE
Maersk on NotPetya Cleanup, Troy Hunt on Kid-Perpetrated Data Breaches, and More Data breaches, incident response and complying with the burgeoning number of regulations that have an information security impact were among the top themes at this year's Infosecurity Europe conference in London. MORE
4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup. 2018 was the year enterprises started seriously investing in their information governance programs. It’s not that they didn’t do governance before, but the increase in compliance and regulations, including the new privacy regulations has pushed for improvements to how enterprise think about and apply information governance processes. It has been a key focus for us at Everteam. MORE
” Once the attackers have profiled the target system and network, they perform and cleanup to remove all. Researchers at SentinelLabs reported that TrickBot operators used a new PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks aimed at high-value targets. SentinelLabs experts discovered a new PowerShell backdoor used by TrickBot operators in recent attacks aimed at Powershell high-value targets , such as financial institutions. MORE
There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free , related to net namespace cleanup.” Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. MORE
But incident response experts have warned that full cleanup may take years MORE
It seems that people are busy doing one-off cleanups all over the place.”. “We This one is all about the data because a significant amount of data remediation and cleanup is going to be needed.”. Guy Vorster, Principal Solutions Consultant, Reltio. Weekends don’t get any more entertaining than a good game of rugby. And I’ll let you in on a secret, we talk business too! MORE
” Another government cybersecurity expert who participated in a recent call with multiple stakeholders impacted by this hacking spree worries the cleanup effort required is going to be Herculean. MORE
GDPR has been in effect since May 2018, but organizations are still waiting to see what impact it will have on the costs organizations might face from breach cleanup, investigations, sanctions and class action lawsuits, says Ian Thornton-Trump of the financial services firm AMTrust International MORE
They also offer significant support for automating common information management tasks like classification and file share cleanup. Hopefully, you've heard by now that we're updating the Certified Information Professional (CIP) exam. To help answer questions and clear up any confusion, I’ve been covering each of the CIP domains in a blog series to explain the updated exam: what's new, what's changed, and how to be successful. MORE
Additional features make scanning simple such as: image cleanup filters to correct scanning errors like speckles or skewed pages and support for more than 300 scanners and multi-function devices (MRD) so you don’t have to buy hardware. PaperVision ScanPro securely connects paper documents to cloud-based information systems. Greenwood Village, CO– May 27, 2020 – Every second, each individual creates 1.7 MORE
LW: Regular big cleanups, just like grandma used to do. The targeting of Sen. Claire McCaskill by Russian intelligency agency hackers, as she runs for re-election, underscores the need for each individual and organization to take online privacy and security as a core part of our everyday lives. Related: Using ‘gamification’ for security training. MORE
There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup.” Security experts have found a race condition vulnerability (CVE-2019-11815) in Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 that expose systems to remote code execution. Linux systems based on kernel versions prior to 5.0.8 are affected by a race condition vulnerability leading to a use after free that could be exploited by hackers to get remote code execution. MORE
Justicz discovered that it is possible to hide a malware within the package’s commit_hooks directory that would escape the cleanup and could then be executed as normal. and have it stay there after the cleanup process, it will be executed before apk exits. The attacker has to control the downloaded tar file avoiding that the package manager will unlink the payload and its directory during the cleanup process. MORE
TSLAC’s state records management assistance has archived over 20 webinars (45 minutes each) including a 30-minute online introductory video and webinars on electronic records management, digital imaging, shared drive cleanup, emergency planning and more. Happy 1010! Today we celebrate Electronic Records Day, which raises awareness about the crucial need to manage and preserve government electronic records. MORE
Create cleanup and migration plan. Stage 2: Test Create staging site for test and cleanup. Test content cleanup in staging site. Validate test cleanup and migration. Customize cleanup and migration procedures. Migrate content to staging site again, for final cleanup prior to migration to final destination. Perform content cleanup. Cleanup" is a noun, as in "This is the plan for content cleanup.". MORE
For a file share cleanup , it may make more sense to go in phases or target particular departments or processes. You’ve made a New Year’s resolution to clean up one of your digital landfills. Congratulations! But where do you start? In this blog post, we present an approach and checklist for migrating your information from one system to another. MORE
Manual file migration provides an opportunity to clean files during the migration process; however, it requires users to be locked out of files for manual cleanup. Rolling out an enterprise-level document management solution across your organization can be a daunting task. While there’s no be-all, end-all method to implementation, setting up enterprise software does require several layers of planning and cross-communication. MORE
City Didn't Pay Ransom, But Spends for Cleanup, New Devices, Better Security The cost of the city of Atlanta's mitigation and subsequent IT overhaul following a massive SamSam ransomware infection in March could reach $17 million, of which $6 million has already been budgeted for new devices, security enhancements as well as upgrades, according to news reports MORE
In a blog post today, Avast said it detected and addressed a breach lasting between May and October 2019 that appeared to target users of its CCleaner application, a popular Microsoft Windows cleanup and repair utility. This is not the first so-called “supply chain” attack on Avast: In September 2018, researchers at Cisco Talos and Morphisec disclosed that hackers had compromised the computer cleanup tool for more than a month, leading to some 2.27 MORE
Image enhancements include the cleanup of most noise, shadows, distortions and other photo artifacts. VANCOUVER – Jan. 22, 2018 – Dynamsoft has introduced a software development kit for iOS app developers to add enterprise-grade document scanning capabilities by easily embedding a mobile capture component in hours or days rather than spending months to build it. The SDK boasts several built-in capabilities such as, automatic document border detection and artifact reductions. MORE
Many organizations are weighing the cost of full data security and threat prevention versus that of cleaning up from a breach. Data security Cyber security Data science Data Scientist MORE
An attacker could perform a race condition via a directory junction (Windows) or a symlink (Linux & macOS) in the time between the initial file scan and the cleanup operation. “What most antivirus software fail to take into consideration is the small window of time between the initial file scan that detects the malicious file and the cleanup operation that takes place immediately after.” MORE
In order to avoid detection, the BAT scripts add the malware location in the exclusion path of Windows Defender and disabling Windows cleanup before executing the malware. MORE
That has certainly been the case in Atlanta and Baltimore where decisions to forego ransom demands of tens of thousands of dollars have led to weeks long disruptions in services and necessitated cleanup and recovery operations measured in millions of dollars. In this week’s podcast episode (#153): The researcher who discovered serious remote access security flaws in anesthesia machines by GE says such security holes are common. MORE
Record audio and calls Suicide functionality and cleanup of staging files. Researchers at Lookout discovered a new mobile spyware dubbed Monokle that was developed by a Russian defense contractor. Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( MORE
Money Would Have Been Better Spent on Prevention, Experts Say The city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million, after a March attack froze corporate servers, employees' PCs and resident-facing portals. Experts say the breach response funds would have been put to better use preventing the outbreak in the first place MORE
Module 2 – CleanUp. If the service detects any kind of ‘suspicious’ activity in the environment, such as the fact that it is running on a virtual machine, or that debugging tools are running in the background, it will execute this module to perform a full cleanup of the system, removing the persistence service as well as any files created previously on the system. MORE
Provide Tools to Ensure Privacy, Trust, and Compliance: A one-time cleanup does not address the volume, diversity, and complexity of information being created. The history of Document Management (DM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has been one of almost continuous change. MORE
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2018
Money Would Have Been Better Spent on Prevention, Experts Say The city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million, after a March attack froze corporate servers, employees' PCs and resident-facing portals. Experts say the breach response funds would have been put to better use preventing the outbreak in the first place
The Texas Record
JANUARY 17, 2019
But we are here to help with tips and guidance on how to do a cleanup of your office’s records if there is any time in the new year to get started. Let us know in the comments if you’ve got any personal tips for doing major cleanups of records that are eligible for disposition. You don’t have to – and probably shouldn’t! – use the trendy KonMari method of cleaning and organizing when it comes to managing government records.
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The Texas Record
JANUARY 25, 2019
The standards were influenced by recommendations from the committee that is leading our division’s shared drive cleanup as well as other best practices for naming electronic records. This is a guest post by Reference Librarian Mackenzie Ryan from TSLAC’s ARIS division.
Everteam
DECEMBER 17, 2018
You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. Weigh those costs against the cost of a data cleanup tool and the work required to implement and manage it. It shouldn’t be difficult to show ROI for data cleanup compared to the potential costs of fines. We’ve outlined four ways you can prove to management that data cleanup is not just essential, but an effective way to save money and avoid costs.
JKevinParker
JULY 9, 2017
Create cleanup and migration plan. Stage 2: Test Create staging site for test and cleanup. Test content cleanup in staging site. Validate test cleanup and migration. Customize cleanup and migration procedures. Migrate content to staging site again, for final cleanup prior to migration to final destination. Perform content cleanup. Cleanup" is a noun, as in "This is the plan for content cleanup.".
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 24, 2018
The move is part a wider push to make Twitter “healthier,” which includes ridding the platform of spam and abuse. Security
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Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Many organizations are weighing the cost of full data security and threat prevention versus that of cleaning up from a breach. Data security Cyber security Data science Data Scientist
Data Breach Today
JUNE 14, 2019
Maersk on NotPetya Cleanup, Troy Hunt on Kid-Perpetrated Data Breaches, and More Data breaches, incident response and complying with the burgeoning number of regulations that have an information security impact were among the top themes at this year's Infosecurity Europe conference in London.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 6, 2018
City Didn't Pay Ransom, But Spends for Cleanup, New Devices, Better Security The cost of the city of Atlanta's mitigation and subsequent IT overhaul following a massive SamSam ransomware infection in March could reach $17 million, of which $6 million has already been budgeted for new devices, security enhancements as well as upgrades, according to news reports
Krebs on Security
MARCH 5, 2021
” Another government cybersecurity expert who participated in a recent call with multiple stakeholders impacted by this hacking spree worries the cleanup effort required is going to be Herculean.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
In order to avoid detection, the BAT scripts add the malware location in the exclusion path of Windows Defender and disabling Windows cleanup before executing the malware.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 25, 2020
An attacker could perform a race condition via a directory junction (Windows) or a symlink (Linux & macOS) in the time between the initial file scan and the cleanup operation. “What most antivirus software fail to take into consideration is the small window of time between the initial file scan that detects the malicious file and the cleanup operation that takes place immediately after.”
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2019
GDPR has been in effect since May 2018, but organizations are still waiting to see what impact it will have on the costs organizations might face from breach cleanup, investigations, sanctions and class action lawsuits, says Ian Thornton-Trump of the financial services firm AMTrust International
ARMA International
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
As the white paper addresses, “…a good go-forward strategy must be married to the cleanup approach. Whichever approach you start with, cleanup or go-forward, you will almost certainly be able to repurpose the information you learned to the other side of this two-pronged approach.”.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Justicz discovered that it is possible to hide a malware within the package’s commit_hooks directory that would escape the cleanup and could then be executed as normal. and have it stay there after the cleanup process, it will be executed before apk exits. The attacker has to control the downloaded tar file avoiding that the package manager will unlink the payload and its directory during the cleanup process.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 21, 2019
In a blog post today, Avast said it detected and addressed a breach lasting between May and October 2019 that appeared to target users of its CCleaner application, a popular Microsoft Windows cleanup and repair utility. This is not the first so-called “supply chain” attack on Avast: In September 2018, researchers at Cisco Talos and Morphisec disclosed that hackers had compromised the computer cleanup tool for more than a month, leading to some 2.27
Security Affairs
MAY 13, 2019
There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup.” Security experts have found a race condition vulnerability (CVE-2019-11815) in Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 that expose systems to remote code execution. Linux systems based on kernel versions prior to 5.0.8 are affected by a race condition vulnerability leading to a use after free that could be exploited by hackers to get remote code execution.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2019
GDPR has been in effect since May 2018, but organizations are still waiting to see what impact it will have on the costs organizations might face from breach cleanup, investigations, sanctions and class action lawsuits, says Ian Thornton-Trump of the financial services firm AMTrust International
Security Affairs
MAY 20, 2019
There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free , related to net namespace cleanup.” Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP.
AIIM
JUNE 4, 2019
They also offer significant support for automating common information management tasks like classification and file share cleanup. Hopefully, you've heard by now that we're updating the Certified Information Professional (CIP) exam. To help answer questions and clear up any confusion, I’ve been covering each of the CIP domains in a blog series to explain the updated exam: what's new, what's changed, and how to be successful.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 18, 2020
Upon manually discovering the breach, Equifax spent 60 days of investigating it, followed by a several months long cleanup period. Corporate America’s love affair with cloud computing has hit a feverish pitch. Yet ignorance persists when it comes to a momentous challenge at hand: how to go about tapping the benefits of digital transformation while also keeping cyber exposures to a minimum level.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 2, 2018
LW: Regular big cleanups, just like grandma used to do. The targeting of Sen. Claire McCaskill by Russian intelligency agency hackers, as she runs for re-election, underscores the need for each individual and organization to take online privacy and security as a core part of our everyday lives. Related: Using ‘gamification’ for security training.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
” TOXIC WASTE CLEANUP IS HARD. As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com.
AIIM
JANUARY 22, 2020
We put together this tip sheet in the context of file share cleanups and how you can determine whether information is still of value. This means that before starting any comprehensive cleanup initiative, at least for information that did have business value at one point, it’s important to get records management, legal, risk, compliance, whoever it is that owns those functions involved.
The Texas Record
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
TSLAC’s state records management assistance has archived over 20 webinars (45 minutes each) including a 30-minute online introductory video and webinars on electronic records management, digital imaging, shared drive cleanup, emergency planning and more. Mark your calendars! The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) are offering a bountiful harvest of free and low-cost learning opportunities in October.
The Texas Record
OCTOBER 9, 2018
TSLAC’s state records management assistance has archived over 20 webinars (45 minutes each) including a 30-minute online introductory video and webinars on electronic records management, digital imaging, shared drive cleanup, emergency planning and more. Happy 1010! Today we celebrate Electronic Records Day, which raises awareness about the crucial need to manage and preserve government electronic records.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 9, 2020
” Once the attackers have profiled the target system and network, they perform and cleanup to remove all. Researchers at SentinelLabs reported that TrickBot operators used a new PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks aimed at high-value targets. SentinelLabs experts discovered a new PowerShell backdoor used by TrickBot operators in recent attacks aimed at Powershell high-value targets , such as financial institutions.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 21, 2018
Module 2 – CleanUp. If the service detects any kind of ‘suspicious’ activity in the environment, such as the fact that it is running on a virtual machine, or that debugging tools are running in the background, it will execute this module to perform a full cleanup of the system, removing the persistence service as well as any files created previously on the system.
Document Imaging Report
MAY 27, 2020
Additional features make scanning simple such as: image cleanup filters to correct scanning errors like speckles or skewed pages and support for more than 300 scanners and multi-function devices (MRD) so you don’t have to buy hardware. PaperVision ScanPro securely connects paper documents to cloud-based information systems. Greenwood Village, CO– May 27, 2020 – Every second, each individual creates 1.7
Document Imaging Report
JANUARY 22, 2018
Image enhancements include the cleanup of most noise, shadows, distortions and other photo artifacts. VANCOUVER – Jan. 22, 2018 – Dynamsoft has introduced a software development kit for iOS app developers to add enterprise-grade document scanning capabilities by easily embedding a mobile capture component in hours or days rather than spending months to build it. The SDK boasts several built-in capabilities such as, automatic document border detection and artifact reductions.
Security Affairs
JULY 25, 2019
Record audio and calls Suicide functionality and cleanup of staging files. Researchers at Lookout discovered a new mobile spyware dubbed Monokle that was developed by a Russian defense contractor. Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. (
The Texas Record
JANUARY 12, 2021
For more help with this, contact your analyst or read some organization tips on our shared drive cleanup success story post.
The Security Ledger
JULY 12, 2019
That has certainly been the case in Atlanta and Baltimore where decisions to forego ransom demands of tens of thousands of dollars have led to weeks long disruptions in services and necessitated cleanup and recovery operations measured in millions of dollars. In this week’s podcast episode (#153): The researcher who discovered serious remote access security flaws in anesthesia machines by GE says such security holes are common.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Which, after a little cleanup, becomes: CallByName CreateObject (“wScript.Shell”), “Run”, VbMethod, “powershell wscript /e:jscript “c:usersadminappdataroamingmicrosoftwordstartupstati_stic.inf:com1””, 0. Malware researc h ers at Yoroi -Cybaze analyzed the TrickBot dropper, a threat that has infected victims since 2016. Introduction. TrickBot it is one of the best known Banking Trojan which has been infecting victims since 2016, it is considered a cyber-crime tool.
Everteam
AUGUST 1, 2019
Provide Tools to Ensure Privacy, Trust, and Compliance: A one-time cleanup does not address the volume, diversity, and complexity of information being created. The history of Document Management (DM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has been one of almost continuous change.
AIIM
DECEMBER 19, 2019
For a file share cleanup , it may make more sense to go in phases or target particular departments or processes. You’ve made a New Year’s resolution to clean up one of your digital landfills. Congratulations! But where do you start? In this blog post, we present an approach and checklist for migrating your information from one system to another.
Synergis Software
JANUARY 28, 2019
Manual file migration provides an opportunity to clean files during the migration process; however, it requires users to be locked out of files for manual cleanup. Rolling out an enterprise-level document management solution across your organization can be a daunting task. While there’s no be-all, end-all method to implementation, setting up enterprise software does require several layers of planning and cross-communication.
Reltio
MAY 13, 2019
It seems that people are busy doing one-off cleanups all over the place.”. “We This one is all about the data because a significant amount of data remediation and cleanup is going to be needed.”. Guy Vorster, Principal Solutions Consultant, Reltio. Weekends don’t get any more entertaining than a good game of rugby. And I’ll let you in on a secret, we talk business too!
ShackF00
JUNE 22, 2015
There ARE impacts – fines, breach cleanup costs, short-term reputation impacts, and so on. One of the most common questions I hear debated in infosec (usually rhetorical) is – “what will it take for management to realize how important security is?”
Everteam
DECEMBER 27, 2018
4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup. 2018 was the year enterprises started seriously investing in their information governance programs. It’s not that they didn’t do governance before, but the increase in compliance and regulations, including the new privacy regulations has pushed for improvements to how enterprise think about and apply information governance processes. It has been a key focus for us at Everteam.
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