Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is a critical vulnerability of very high significance to government and industry groups. Exploited systems are at risk for ransomware, data exfiltration, cryptomining, and other malicious activities perpetrated by criminal organizations and nation-state actors. See the CISA alert and NIST alert.

Libraries 57

Libraries Ransomware Cloud Risk 57

erwin

JULY 2, 2020

Users discuss how they are putting erwin’s data modeling, enterprise architecture, business process modeling, and data intelligences solutions to work. IT Central Station members using erwin solutions are realizing the benefits of enterprise modeling and data intelligence. They have documented 200 business processes in this way.

Metadata 122

Metadata Healthcare Libraries Government 122

erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. This also diminishes the value of data as an asset.

Metadata 132

Metadata Unstructured data Compliance Sales 132

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. You can find the full list below, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump. Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks.

Authentication 115

Authentication Libraries Access Government 115

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Personal data 98

Collibra

JUNE 13, 2023

As our digital age advances, data professionals everywhere grapple with the relentless wave of ever-increasing data. The rapid evolution of technology and the continuous creation of new data are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to manage — let alone make sense — of a vast, complex data landscape.

Digital transformation 52

Digital transformation Metadata Marketing Government 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. Ransomware.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. We identified 85 security incidents during the month, resulting in 99,243,757 compromised records. You can find the full list below, broken into categories. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

Data breaches 119

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Access 119

Everteam

JANUARY 22, 2019

If 2018 showed us anything, it’s that information governance has captured the attention of organizations of all sizes. Maybe they don’t all refer to the work they do on ensuring their information is well governed as “information governance,” but they are thinking about what’s needed and doing the work to make it happen.

Information governance 58

Information governance Government Unstructured data Analytics 58

Preservica

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

On World Digital Preservation Day 2018, Sylvain Bélanger, Director General of Digital Operations and Preservation at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) discusses operating at scale, the challenges of preserving high volume born-digital content, and giving Canadians greater access to Canada’s continuing memory.

Digital preservation 58

Digital preservation Libraries Archiving Government 58

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Alongside the significant brand reputation risk, there’s also a growing set of data and AI regulations across the world and across industries — like the upcoming European Union AI Act — that companies must adhere to. How do you accommodate for drifting data patterns? How a data fabric enables trustworthy AI. Is it scalable?

Data science 57

Data science Metadata Government Access 57

The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

By law, any information that an elected official, a government employee, or a state employee handles that correlates with the definitions explained in State Agency Bulletin 4 and in Local Government Bulletin D is a record. Still, identifying what is a record with regard to agency or government websites may seem impossible at times.

Government 61

Government Data collection Libraries Archiving 61

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Patch your TeamCity instance to avoid server hack Is Gelsemium APT behind a targeted attack in Southeast Asian Government?

Artificial Intelligence 108

Artificial Intelligence Security Ransomware Data breaches 108

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 25, 2018

Jim’s writing about eDiscovery and Data Management has been twice recognized with JD Supra Reader’s Choice Awards and he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. For more information on how CloudNine helps organizations with data discovery, contact us at info@ediscovery.co.

ROT 34

ROT Libraries Information governance Risk 34

Preservica

AUGUST 14, 2020

The COVID-19 global pandemic has simultaneously and exponentially increased the production of electronic government records and the demand for online access to public records and information. The tsunami of data and the hard pivot to remote work and home school has stretched government information management capabilities to their limits.

Government 52

Government Access Digital transformation Communications 52

IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers (unknown). Department of Health Services email hacked exposing patient data (14,591). Pennsylvania-based software firm and healthcare provider accuse each other of data theft (unknown). TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899).

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Government 111

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The CISA agency is warning of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting multiple state and local governments in the US since August. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. since August.

Government 133

Government Libraries Cybersecurity Phishing 133

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group abused the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries to target government entities. Russia-linked APT29 (aka SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , and The Dukes ) was spotted abusing the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries in attacks aimed at governments.

Metadata 95

Metadata Government Libraries Phishing 95

AIIM

JULY 24, 2018

Data Privacy and Open Data: Secondary Uses under GDPR. Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. GDPR and Cross Border Data Flows between the EU and the US: Current State of the Law. GDPR Compliance Starts with Data Discovery. Three Critical Steps for GDPR Compliance.

GDPR 83

GDPR Compliance Privacy Data Privacy 83

Archive-It

MAY 12, 2022

Government websites went dark during Russia’s 2014-15 annexation of Crimea. UC Berkeley Library’s Library Information Technology department contributed their Archive-It account to the effort, which now includes approximately 345 GB of data from 59 websites. While a major media site like smotrim.ru

Archiving 37

Archiving Libraries Access Education 37

Information is Currency

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The book “ Get Governed: Building World Class Data Governance Programs ” by Morgan Templar is an excellent book for any information professional to read. In the world of information governance, data governance is only a small slice of the pie.

Government 40

Government Records Management Information governance Unstructured data 40

Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).” “The FSB used the OpenSSL library to handle its Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Government 92

Government Libraries Cybersecurity Security 92

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

. “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

Mining 118

Mining Government Cybersecurity Libraries 118

The Texas Record

MARCH 23, 2021

How long should you keep records documenting the copyright of an original work of authorship? Records documenting the copyright status of original works are administratively valuable when it comes to crafting licensing agreements, drafting acceptable use notices, responding to infringement lawsuits, etc. ” 1.

Government 98

Government Libraries Access IT 98

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

The Schedule

AUGUST 26, 2019

Session 702 focused on web archiving efforts related to content that simultaneously documents recent events and–by its very nature–could be considered sensitive and/or controversial. Part 1: Documenting Current Events and Controversial Topics (Jennifer Weintraub). other archivists and information technology staff).

Archiving 40

Archiving Libraries Metadata Access 40

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft Office Documents. Microsoft Office Documents. PEframe is an open source tool to perform static analysis of malware executables and malicious MS Office documents. PdfParser, a standalone PHP library, provides various tools to extract data from a PDF file. Some files are more used in attacks. ZIP, RAR e 7z.

Libraries 103

Libraries Metadata Education Security 103

Everteam

JANUARY 9, 2019

Governance policies related to how you use and manage data cross departments and applications, and trying to manage them all in a spreadsheet simply doesn’t make sense. Everteam.policy is a tool that allows you to capture, document and maintain retention and governance policies for your entire organization.

Government 40

Government Compliance Metadata Communications 40

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

The CVE-2021-44228 flaw made the headlines in December, after Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed a Proof-of-concept exploit for the critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability ( aka Log4Shell ) that affects the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. ” reads the joint alert.

Access 118

Access Libraries Cybersecurity Government 118

The Texas Record

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While that is an interesting popular image, the archives and archivists here at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) are the protectors of documented history. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. The number of documents and pages is several million!

Archiving 106

Archiving Libraries Paper Access 106

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

LuminousMoth: Kaspersky uncovered an ongoing and large-scale APT campaign that targeted government entities in Southeast Asia, including Myanmar and the Philippines. The Dropbox link leads to a RAR archive that masquerades as a Word document by setting the “file_subpath” parameter to point to a filename with a.DOCX extension.

Archiving 98

Archiving File names Government Libraries 98

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The campaign targeted French entities in the construction, real estate, and government industries. The threat actor used the Serpent backdoor to remotely control the systems, steal sensitive data and deliver additional malicious payloads. Upon enabling the macro in the bait document, it fetches an image from a remote URL (e.g.

Libraries 91

Libraries GDPR Phishing Government 91

The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Both local governments and state agencies want to know if they ‘go paperless’ — if they digitize their essential records — can they get rid of the original paper or film copies? Local Government Rules. Adequate technical documentation is kept ( Sec. for data files, Sec. for text documents, Sec.

Paper 98

Paper Records Management Digital preservation Archiving 98

Archives Blogs

MAY 9, 2019

The Archives is very pleased to announce that the Planning Department’s former reference library material is now available to researchers in the Archives’ Reading Room. Processing the series was expedited by the arrival of a Langara Library Tech program student who had been looking for an internship project with us.

Libraries 33

Libraries Archiving Government IT 33

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

GDPR 120

GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

CILIP

JULY 7, 2020

CILIP has provided this advisory note in response to the call for libraries and information services, particularly public libraries, to undertake data-collecting activity as part of the Government?s with other library systems or user information. No deterrent to library use. Contact Tracing? initiative.

Libraries 52

Libraries Data collection Risk Privacy 52