Data Breach Today

JUNE 29, 2020

Malwarebytes Researchers Find Malicious JavaScript in WordPress Plugin Payment card hackers are now hiding malicious JavaScript inside an image's EXIF metadata and then sneaking the image onto e-commerce sites, according to the security firm Malwarebytes.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Interesting Twitter thread on how cell phone metadata can be used to identify and track people who don’t want to be identified and tracked.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Lots of apps leak all sorts of metadata: iMessage and WhatsApp seem to be the worst. Signal protects the most metadata. Rolling Stone broke the story and it’s been written about elsewhere.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

CDRThief specifically targets internal MySQL databases running in the devices to steal call metadata, including IP addresses of the callers, phone numbers, start time and duration of the call, call route, and call type. “To steal this metadata, the malware queries internal MySQL databases used by the Softswitch.”

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National Archives Records Express

JUNE 12, 2023

S49-07-001 – STS-049 – In cabin view of crewmember at the forward flight deck with laptop terminal National Archives Identifier: 22702275 In this blog post, we will explore the key aspects of metadata requirements and their significance in recordkeeping.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Syniverse Routes Over 1 Trillion Messages Annually for AT&T, Verizon, Others Telecommunications service provider Syniverse, which routes 1 trillion messages annually for many of the world's mobile phone carriers, has disclosed a five-year breach of its systems, which handle call metadata and text messages.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 12, 2021

Really interesting research : “Exploitation and Sanitization of Hidden Data in PDF Files” Abstract: Organizations publish and share more and more electronic documents like PDF files.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Metadata spying. Metadata is worthy of a separate examination. Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. Metadata can be used to reverse-engineer and pinpoint identity quite easily.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 25, 2019

Cybereason Says Theft of Subscribers' Call Metadata Could Be Linked to Chinese APT Group Attackers - likely operating from China - have been surreptitiously hacking into global telecommunications providers' networks to quietly steal metadata and track subscribers - and those with whom they communicate - as part of an ongoing cyber espionage operation, (..)

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National Archives Records Express

JULY 31, 2024

We are requesting comments on a draft NARA Bulletin: Metadata Guidance for the Transfer of Classified Electronic Records Please send comments or questions to rmstandards@nara.gov by August 16, 2024. This metadata documents the access restrictions, review and declassification, and other metadata elements. National Archives.

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Collibra

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Managing metadata is even harder. So why do I need to care about metadata? What is the value of metadata? Active metadata will help you answer this question. Curious about what active metadata is and how it can help. What is active metadata? Traditional metadata is like a static description of your data.

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IG Guru

JULY 3, 2024

Check out the article here The post New Memo Offers Guidance on Registering Metadata in Army Data Catalog via ExecutiveGov first appeared on IG GURU.

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Gimmal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. Ineffective Search Capabilities : Without additional metadata, searches are limited to file names or basic content, making it difficult to perform targeted searches. The Power of Metadata So, what is metadata?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

This resource, known as the “metadata” service , is responsible for handing out temporary information to a cloud server, including current credentials sent from a security service to access any resource in the cloud to which that server has access.

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AIIM

APRIL 27, 2021

Step 1: Improve Content Metadata. High-quality metadata is essential to improving search results. But expecting employees to consistently input useful metadata is a losing battle.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 15, 2024

Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata: Citations of scientific work abide by a standardized referencing system: Each reference explicitly mentions at least the title, authors’ names, publication year, journal or conference name, and page numbers of the cited publication. The result?

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AIIM

JULY 23, 2020

Process Dependencies: Work processes, both manual and automated, may rely on how a system works, what its reports contain, how its metadata is structured, and more. Missing Metadata: This is often the case because new fields were added; in many instances, these new fields are also mandatory. This is also known as metadata enrichment.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 26, 2024

US spy agencies purchased Americans' phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

WhatsApp does not protect metadata the way that Signal does. It has gone above and beyond to minimize the collection of metadata. That is powerful metadata. It is not trivial to point out that WhatsApp metadata could easily be joined with Facebook data, and that it could easily reveal extremely intimate information about people.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

addressed two vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2023-39265 and CVE-2023-37941 , that could be exploited to take control of Superset’s metadata database. “By default Superset uses SQLite as its metadata database, and the SQLite file is located on the Superset web server. Version 2.1.1

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

. “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. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how. “It’s not going to be forensically solid, but that’s not what they care about,” he said.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

MongoDB on Saturday announced it is investigating a cyberattack that exposed customer account metadata and contact information. MongoDB on Saturday disclosed it is investigating a cyber attack against certain corporate systems. MongoDB is a US company that developed the popular open-source NoSQL database management system.

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AIIM

JUNE 3, 2021

Permanent federal records AND appropriate metadata must be created, managed and maintained in electronic format by 2022. However, this initiative has been designed to transition agencies into managing government records (and metadata) entirely within an electronic environment by 2022. 7 Factors Critical for M-19-21 Compliance.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2024

. “In early May 2024, Cisco identified bugs in Cisco Webex Meetings that we now believe were leveraged in targeted security research activity allowing unauthorized access to meeting information and metadata in Cisco Webex deployments for certain customers hosted in our Frankfurt data center.” ” continues the advisory.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To test the true extent of data collection in VR, we designed a simple 30-person user study called MetaData. In fact, MetaGuard goes far beyond “incognito mode” on the web, protecting not just metadata but the telemetry data itself. Berkeley RDI is a preeminent source of open-access metaverse privacy research.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2024

To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needed GitHub Enterprise Server’s encrypted assertions feature enabled, direct network access, and a signed SAML response or metadata document. Additionally, an attacker would require direct network access as well as a signed SAML response or metadata document. and 3.14.2. and 3.14.2,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The message logs did not contain any message content but did contain the phone number, phone carrier, country, and state to which each message was sent, as well as other metadata (e.g., Attackers also obtained other metadata, including the date and time of the message, type of message, etc.

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erwin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This metadata is ingested into the data catalog, definitions are added within a business glossary, and the searchable repository enables users to understand how data is used and stored. Expanded AI capabilities to enrich metadata scanning and speed the handling of sensitive data for automated GDPR and CCPA compliance programs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2024

Combined with a useful SSRF protection bypass, we used this flaw to get access to Microsoft’s internal infrastructure for Copilot Studio, including the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) and internal Cosmos DB instances.” ” reads the report published by Grant.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2024

“The most concerning thing to me about this AT&T breach of ALL customer call and text records is that this isn’t one of their main databases; it is metadata on who is contacting who,” Burnett wrote on Mastodon. “Which makes me wonder what would call logs without timestamps or names have been used for.”

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Dark Reading

APRIL 19, 2023

Unsophisticated attackers can pinpoint where a person lives by lifting metadata from Strava and other apps, even if they're using a feature specifically aimed at protecting their location information.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Metadata’s role As important as the video content itself is, there is an even more critical element: metadata. Video metadata includes the date the video was created, the creator’s name, location, date of upload, and even the camera ID. Thus metadata and standards play a vital role in sharing and controlling data?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“Phar files (PHP Archive) files contain metadata in serialized format, which when parsed by a PHP file operation function leads to the metadata getting deserialized. An attacker can abuse this behavior to exploit an object instantiation vulnerability inside the Juniper codebase.”

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Researchers on Zscaler’s ThreatLabz research team say the root cause of a recent CLFS zero-day resides in base file metadata.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

Metadata on browsing activity, which includes information about the websites visited, timestamps, and duration of visits, can be abused for surveillance in several ways, privacy advocated warn. Senator pointed out that according to a recent FTC order, data brokers cannot sell Americans’ data without informed consent.

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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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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

With all these diverse metadata sources, it is difficult to understand the complicated web they form much less get a simple visual flow of data lineage and impact analysis. The metadata-driven suite automatically finds, models, ingests, catalogs and governs cloud data assets. GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, SOX, PIC DSS).

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