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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

Normally at this point, Experian’s website would present four or five multiple-guess questions, such as “Which of the following addresses have you lived at?” For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages.

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Is AIIM Membership Worth It? Pros and Cons

AIIM

As I noted in the previous post, I would definitely encourage you to consider whether your association offers these benefits. I co-presented a session at AIIM 2003. I included this last because it is the least valuable benefit I get from mine. Many of these would apply to other associations as well. But it is a consideration.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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Information Literacy and Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

With little, if any, coverage of this topic in our professional discourse, I only recently made this connection myself thanks to a librarian’s presentation on expanding info literacy. A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes.

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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Krebs on Security

There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. But a decent crypto-mining rig can quickly crack a majority of password hashes generated with MD5 (one of the weaker and more commonly-used password hashing algorithms).

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Do You Have the Right Stuff to Transition to Information Governance?

ARMA International

As memorialized in the book The Right Stuff , test pilots then had to decide whether to transition into an uncertain-yet-vaguely-familiar new career or continue along their present path. A client of mine in the construction industry recognized that its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system was in dire need of replacement.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Murphy retired in 2000, but is still writing and publishing.