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What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?”

Krebs on Security

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. The U.S.

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Reflections on the Libraries? Responses to Coronavirus, Resource Discovery and the Future

CILIP

Reflections on the Libraries? In my workplace, physical library services have stopped completely, with no readers and no staff permitted to access buildings. All of that is gone now, as the libraries are closed to readers and staff. The Temporary Digital Bodleian Library.

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FAQ: How does web archiving fit into records management?

The Texas Record

Records Management for Blogs, Texts, Social Media, Cloud Computing and more! Web archiving involves using software to take periodic snapshots to preserve as much data as you need about your organization’s website, including any associated metadata.

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e-Records 2017: “Teacher Retirement System of Texas: The Information Governance Journey”

The Texas Record

Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed. TSLAC Wants Your Electronic Records. Establishing Information Governance for Local Governments in Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. Data Protection and Information Governance across Data Silos. Teacher Retirement System of Texas: The Information Governance Journey. These results were used to develop a big bucket retention schedule and create standard repositories for electronic records.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

IT Governance

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

If you find yourself staring down disaster, IT Governance is here to help. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

The Sleuth Kit enables administrators to analyze file system data via a library of command-line tools for investing disk images. Autopsy is its GUI and a digital forensics platform used widely in public and private computer system investigations to boost TSK’s abilities.

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Writing Your First Bootloader for Better Analyses

Security Affairs

When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. We need to tell to the liner that we want a plain binary file without linked libraries or linked symbols, fir such a reason we’re going to use –oformat binar. David Jurgens: Help PC Reference Library AshakiranBhatter : Writing BootLoader. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Reporting back from the 2022 ARCHIVES*RECORDS Conference

Archive-It

JAR: The first session, Giving back to the Community through Computational Scholarship , presented three in-process projects that implement computational technologies to unlock a more complete story of what happened in the Japanese American Concentration Camps of World War II.

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Archive-It Partner News, February 2019

Archive-It

Community Webs cohort members gathered at the Columbus Metropolitan Library for their yearly summit, and to mark the second (and final) year of their Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded program. Community Webs cohort members at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. Laying the groundwork: The University of Pennsylvania Libraries summarize their growing institution-wide web archiving programs, including collections, workshops, and advice for creators.

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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

I have overseen two significant projects: an electronic discovery production and disaster response and recovery effort. These floors contain offices, a record center, a library and researcher area, a processing area, and the archives.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Microsoft.Exchange.WebService.dll which includes the real functionalities used by Jason.exe, it’s a Microsoft developed library, PassSamplewhich includes some patterns implementation of possible Passwords (ie.[User@first]@@[user@first]123) I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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Is APT27 Abusing COVID-19 To Attack People ?!

Security Affairs

Governments are doing their best to mitigate such a virus while people are stuck home working remotely using their own equipment. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) comprises a set of systems-management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments.

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating. Information technologists, data librarians, and information governance professionals may broaden those definitions to include data backups, but generally, archivists tend to shy away from “Big Data” and instead focus on that small bit of material that is deemed archival. Local library initiatives such as the Ann Arbor News digitization project at the Ann Arbor District Library.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Glossary of Records Management and Information Governance Terms, 5th ed., Abstract.

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

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.

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APT34: Glimpse project

Security Affairs

The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. Repeated targeting of Middle Eastern financial, energy and government organisations leads FireEye to assess that those sectors are a primary concern of APT34. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Y2K: The New Year’s Disaster That Wasn’t

Unwritten Record

Governments and businesses around the world proactively prepared their computer systems to seamlessly to the year 2000 rather than travel back to 1900. Since its creation in 1941, Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi has specialized in technical training in avionics and electronics. Meanwhile in Colorado, Peterson Air Force Base was home to a bank of computers tasked with preventing Y2K problems with the US’s and Russia’s missiles.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Thus, computing resources are available on-demand at any time. This process was called Computer Output to Laser Disk (COLD). Abstract.

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Writing Your First Bootloader for Better Analyses

Security Affairs

When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. We need to tell to the liner that we want a plain binary file without linked libraries or linked symbols, fir such a reason we’re going to use --oformat binar. David Jurgens: Help PC Reference Library AshakiranBhatter : Writing BootLoader. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

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. When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. Perhaps the Government could respond on that point. Our report considers the Government’s policy options both short and long term.

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A Record Center Is Not An Archives: Dispatches from a ARM sector change

The Schedule

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! Officially, the Milwaukee Public Library maintains the official archives of the City at their central building downtown. Don’t even ask about how the system handles electronic records.

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Building the Relationship Between RM and IT

The Texas Record

Whether it’s creating and securing electronic records or establishing a process to capture records from social media sites, records managers often find themselves working closely with their Information Technology (IT) Departments. ” AO : “ Before I joined the OOG in April 2015, Computer Services had been responsible for training the agency on using Archie, our records retention and classification tool.

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How Content Services Are Enabling the Digital Transformation of Electric Utilities

AIIM

With data analytics in the cloud, electric utilities handle that immense data load because the cloud provides unprecedented power from virtual interconnected systems and compute resources. Electric utilities in the United States are a major source of CO2 – they created 1.55

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Charity

ForAllSecure

I've met people that have library skills, and you would wonder well how is that going to apply to hacking and then they get a job in an InfoSec role, you know, keeping all of the compliance documentation together whatever right, wherever your skills are you can probably apply them here.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. David Brumley is the chief executive officer at the firm for ForAllSecure and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. For their latest Security Ledger Spotlight podcast, Paul Roberts sat down with David Brumley, Chief Executive Officer at ForAllSecure and a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. David Brumley is the chief executive officer at the firm for ForAllSecure and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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SECURITY LEDGER PODCAST: SECURITY AUTOMATION IS (AND ISN'T) THE FUTURE OF INFOSEC

ForAllSecure

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. For their latest Security Ledger Spotlight podcast, Paul Roberts sat down with David Brumley, Chief Executive Officer at ForAllSecure and a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. David Brumley is the chief executive officer at the firm for ForAllSecure and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Ten Years After: RIM Standards Evolve Slowly

Positively RIM

Leading-edge records managers joined the techies, smiling that their fledgling stock of electronic records were largely intact; disaster recovery tactics went unused. It is possible that the current buzz words -- Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, Accountability and Transparency describe RIM’s governance and explicitly stated organization; policies; and strategies. It was largely paper-based, and its roots in library science were apparent.