IG Guru

MARCH 25, 2021

The post Over Half of Fortune 500 Companies Are Leaving Sensitive Information Open to Reconnaissance via Document Metadata via CPO Magazine appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Security experts from ESET discovered a new piece of malware, tracked as CDRThief, that targets the Linux VoIP platform, Linknat VOS2009/3000 softswitches, to steal call data records (CDR) from telephone exchange equipment. “To steal this metadata, the malware queries internal MySQL databases used by the Softswitch.”

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Metadata management is a cross-organizational agreement on how to define informational assets for converting data into an enterprise asset. As data volumes and diversity grow, metadata management is even more critical to derive business value from the gigantic amounts of data. . What is Metadata? Who created this data?

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AIIM

JULY 6, 2021

With this massive transition underway, many organizations struggle to maximize productivity and resilience while building a seamless and secure digital workplace. And with multiple collaboration tools deployed, organizations lack a consolidated platform causing content management overhead, security gaps, and siloed assets.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This reality has made data security increasingly important, requiring a sea change in the way companies handle their documents. We have decades of experience in the safe storage, scanning, and shredding of our clients’ important documents. What paperwork do I need to keep: How do you know which documents to keep or shred?

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Of course, data governance has evolved with astonishing speed, both in response to data privacy and security regulations and because organizations see the potential for using it to accomplish other organizational objectives. The post Metadata Management, Data Governance and Automation appeared first on erwin, Inc.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Security experts from ESET discovered a new piece of malware, tracked as CDRThief, that targets the Linux VoIP platform, Linknat VOS2009/3000 softswitches, to steal call data records (CDR) from telephone exchange equipment. “To steal this metadata, the malware queries internal MySQL databases used by the Softswitch.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Court documents obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool that allows accessing private Signal messages on iPhones. Court documents related to a recent gun-trafficking case in New York and obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool to access private Signal messages. ” Some forensics security firms.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

. “The covert self-developed tool and the associated C2 commands seem to be the work of a sophisticated, unknown threat actor who has targeted approximately 100 victims,” SafeBreach director of security research Tomer Bar wrote in a blog post today detailing the findings. Phishing on LinkedIn. A Critical Mistake.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping: One of the hazards lies in the fact that, for some of the programs, downstream crop reversals are possible for viewers or readers of the document, not just the file’s creators or editors. A photograph taken with a modern digital camera contains all types of metadata.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

National Security Agency (NSA) admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to monitor Americans’ activity online without a court order. released documents that confirmed the National Security Agency (NSA) buys Americans’ internet browsing records without a court order. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

The credentials of clients using the white-label service were exposed in plaintext, along with details of database locations and negotiated commission percentages.

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AIIM

APRIL 27, 2021

The perks of a cloud-first approach for data management have been well documented: unified, content-services platforms accessed anytime, anywhere by empowered employees leading to improved productivity and reduced operational costs. Step 1: Improve Content Metadata. High-quality metadata is essential to improving search results.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Shockingly, a lot of organizations, even today, manage this through, either homemade tools or documents, checklists, Excel files, custom-made databases and so on and so forth. Traditionally, these are manually documented, monitored and managed. Processes produce, process and consume data –information captured in the metadata layer.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

Organizations with particularly deep data stores might need a data catalog with advanced capabilities, such as automated metadata harvesting to speed up the data preparation process. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. The metadata provides information about the asset that makes it easier to locate, understand and evaluate.

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AIIM

JULY 15, 2021

There are certain outcomes to be aware of and avoid : Implementation is Half Baked: Maybe security is not thought through. Files are uploaded but do not have any corresponding metadata to make them searchable. Documents are hard to locate, security is an afterthought and every group has its own way of “managing content".

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked : According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Recently, we have received many questions about metadata. Most of the inquiries about metadata revolve around two questions – What is metadata and why is it important. The purpose of this article is to discuss whether metadata is part of an electronic record and if so why. So, what is metadata?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Security experts attributed 67 attacks to the group in May 2023, most of the victims are in the U.S. 8base” file extension for encrypted documents, a circumstance that suggested a possible link to the 8Base group or the use of the same code-base for their ransomware. and Brazil. ” reads the report published by Talos.”Once

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. “You need to create this file and inject into the machine(s) like this so that metadata would say that they were created on his computer,” they continued. “ Cl0p ” a.k.a. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how.

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Everteam

MARCH 16, 2023

Web Master 16 March 2023 Electronic document management (EDM) is a major challenge for companies that are looking to store and manage digital documents efficiently. This problem is present in all companies: Employees rarely archive documents manually and do not sort documents in an existing document space.

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AIIM

MARCH 4, 2021

AIIM's training offers this definition for Capture: Capture is the process of getting records (or documents) that you have created into some sort of information management system, and recording their existence in the system. Note that this can include scanning in, or otherwise digitizing, paper and other physical documents.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

Mateusz Morawiecki had to provide details about the attacks presenting secret documents related to attacks, as anticipated by government spokesman Piotr Muller. The media reported that the politicians targeted by the hackers used their private Gmail accounts for communications, instead of using their secure government accounts.

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Collibra

AUGUST 7, 2019

She identifies, documents and analyzes compliance, conducts regular audits and leads training on customer and employee privacy (a huge issue in this environment). Luke the data scientist needs to understand the data better than anyone else, keep it up to date and document the operating model.

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Collibra

AUGUST 7, 2019

She identifies, documents and analyzes compliance, conducts regular audits and leads training on customer and employee privacy (a huge issue in this environment). Luke the data scientist needs to understand the data better than anyone else, keep it up to date and document the operating model.

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Metadata Compliance Digital transformation Privacy 55

Gimmal

JANUARY 24, 2022

The need to secure a document for legal holds or to meet industry-specific records compliance is not a new concept for records managers. An immutable record refers to a document or file that has been “declared” a record at some point in its lifecycle or was placed on legal hold for a specified reason.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Russia-linked APT28 group is using mouse movement in decoy Microsoft PowerPoint documents to distribute malware. The Russia-linked APT28 employed a technique relying on mouse movement in decoy Microsoft PowerPoint documents to deploy malware, researchers from Cluster25 reported. ” reads the analysis published by Cluster25.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

Create an information governance team including representatives from IT, Records Management, Compliance, Legal, Information Security, and Line of Business. Don’t burden a records manager with your end users’ day-to-day jobs; take retention management out of their hands where possible by automating document classification and retention.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary. That knowledge is critical to supporting efforts to keep relevant data secure and private. Where Are the Skeletons?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

The media reported that the politicians targeted by the hackers used their private Gmail accounts for communications, instead of using their secure government accounts. Media reported that the metadata of the leaked documents shows that they were edited by a person using Russian-language software. ” . .

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable inventory of components, dependencies, metadata, and the hierarchical relationship for a given software product. Threat intelligence can help scan IT environments for the latest malware, but that’s just one security layer against zero-day threats.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Once opened the archive, it will displays a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that masquerades as a document. In each sample analyzed by CTU researchers, the shortcut file metadata indicates the file was created on a Windows system either with hostname “desktop-n2v1smh” or “desktop-cb248vr” ” continues the report.

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

That means your cloud data assets must be available for use by the right people for the right purposes to maximize their security, quality and value. But even with the “need for speed” to market, new applications must be modeled and documented for compliance, transparency and stakeholder literacy. Why You Need Cloud Data Governance.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

The infection sequence can be carried out using a combination of Microsoft APIs, command-line interface (CLI) scripts, and PowerShell scripts, the enterprise security firm added. The versioning settings are under list settings for each document library. . ” continues the report. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

refraining from sharing metadata or information collected via the use of cookies or similar technologies with third-parties, unless it has been previously anonymized. refraining from sharing metadata or information collected via the use of cookies or similar technologies with third-parties, unless it has been previously anonymized.

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