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Nation-State Hackers Exploiting WinRAR, Google Warns

Data Breach Today

While RARLabs Patched Flaw, 'Many Users' Don't Appear to Have Updated the Software Nation-state hackers are targeting a vulnerability in WinRAR, a popular Windows utility for archiving files, warns Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which said it has seen "government-backed hacking groups" who hail from multiple countries, including China and Russia, (..)

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Pending Updates to Regulations of Archives in Colombia

AIIM

This article was written by AIIM Florida Chapter Board Member Alvaro Arias Cruz , District Director of Archives of Bogotá. Colombia has one of the most robust and comprehensive archives laws in the Latin American region, identified as the General Archives Law (Law 594 of 2000).

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

The information flow is complicated, and the governance implications are substantial. Every aspect of content flow and collaboration – including Microsoft Teams and its information—must be integral to the organization’s approach to information governance. What is your existing Information Governance strategy?

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Unwrapping the Archives

The Texas Record

When most people think of archives, the first thing that comes to mind is Indiana Jones swinging on vines and storing artifacts in giant rooms. 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.

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Use It, Save It, Or Lose It: Spring Cleaning for Information Governance

Speaker: Speakers Michelle Kirk of Georgia Pacific, Darla White of Sanofi, & Scott McVeigh of Onna

As an organization’s most valuable asset, data should be cared for and integrated, managed, archived, and deleted as appropriate. Information governance for unstructured data. Spring has sprung, which means it’s time to get your data house in order. Watch this webinar on-demand to learn about: Data lifecycle management.

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Archives Month: Web Archive (WARC) File Format

The Texas Record

It’s October, which means that it is once again time to celebrate American Archives Month ! First on the docket: web archiving. When it comes to local government and state agency websites, retention periods will vary depending on the function and content of the information uploaded to the web. The Basic Steps.

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BEST PRACTICES: Why pursuing sound ‘data governance’ can be a cybersecurity multiplier

The Last Watchdog

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. A robust data archiving strategy puts data into tiers, Lahiri says.