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How to Build a Metadata Plan in Five Steps

AIIM

Metadata resides at the center of many of the essential aspects of content management. In addition to helping organize and classify content, Metadata enables good findability, can trigger workflow and transactional processes, reveals document usage patterns and history, and helps establish retention and disposition events.

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CDRThief Linux malware steals VoIP metadata from Linux softswitches

Security Affairs

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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Crooks hide e-skimmer code in favicon EXIF Metadata

Security Affairs

Malwarebytes experts observed crooks hiding a software skimmer in the EXIF metadata of an image that was surreptitiously loaded by compromised online stores. While investigating a Magecart attack, experts found an e-skimmer code hidden in the EXIF metadata of an image file and surreptitiously loaded by compromised online stores.

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager – SIEM Product Overview and Insight

eSecurity Planet

SolarWinds lacks the full security suite presence of some competitors, but is well-integrated across a variety of bonus IT operation capabilities such as threat intelligence platform capabilities, privileged access management, USB security, and botnet detection. SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 2022.4

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CDRThief Linux malware steals VoIP metadata from Linux softswitches

Security Affairs

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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Startup Sees File System as Key to Security

eSecurity Planet

While many cybersecurity vendors approach zero trust from the perspective of microsegmentation , shrinking the network as much as possible, one startup thinks security needs to be as close to the data as possible and is thus focused on data storage. Secure file server stops attacks. Affordability and performance.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

Krebs on Security

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.