RAIN 070524
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Civil War Letter from General Grant Found in Green Bay
WBAY - Green Bay,WI,USA
It's a rare find for the Brown County Historical Society: A
143-year-old hand-written letter by General Ulysses S. Grant turned up
in Green Bay. ... <http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6553745>
Brown County Historical Society rediscovers letter from Gen ...
Appleton Post Crescent - Appleton,WI,USA
GREEN BAY -- It's 143 years old, but the letter written by Ulysses S.
Grant that recently was unearthed at the Brown County Historical Society
still is ...
<http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/APC0101/
705240575/1003/APC01>
Let's talk about Records Management
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Larry Medina on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 12:17pm. After reading a recent
article in Computerworld, I thought it might be important to have a
discussion about ...<http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5560>
British Library Preserves Its Sound Archives for Posterity
MIX - Emeryville,CA,USA
“We work to the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual
Archives (IASA) specifications, which are very tight for
analog-to-digital converters,” ...
<http://mixonline.com/news/headline/britishlibrary-soundarchives-prismsou
nd-052107/>
Catalog of California state archives placed online
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
A catalog of the collections in the California State Archives is now
available online, a boon to those researching the state's history. ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/16/state/n17140
4D90.DTL>
New York Times
Web Sites Listing Informants Concern Justice Dept.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/washington/22plea.html?ex=1180584000&e
n=f9786599944b3432&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
Advanced Micro Devices subpoenas Intel's lawyers
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Yet the companies continue to quarrel over Intel's document retention
problems and the solutions to them. In a letter to Special Master
Vincent Poppiti ...<http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_5967847>
Shannon Martin: Internet no substitute for newspapers
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
Open-meetings and open-records laws allow citizens to inquire about
government records and observe government in action. They require
citizens to go and get
...<http://bangordailynews.com/news/templates/?a=150158&z=35>
The best media to archive important data?
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
You need confidence that hardware and software that can read your
archive files will be around, too. I'd stick with popular,
nonproprietary file formats, ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
articleId=9020840>
$3.2 Billion Mortgage Company Benefits from C2C Email Archiving ...
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
"To find a copy of an old email for legal matters, we would have to
call the archive storage company, order the tapes, wait a couple of
days for them to ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-32-billion-mortgage-company-benefits-from
-c2c-email-/2007/05/23/2654218.htm>
Green digital data archive to be established in Iceland
IcelandReview - Reykjavik,Iceland
Icelandic digital assets management company Data Íslandia announced
plans yesterday to establish an environmentally friendly archive for
storing digital ...
<http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=21123&ew_0
_a_id=282594>
Have Shredder, Will Travel
Rapid Growth - Grand Rabids,MI,USA
A number of local businesses and residents have begun employing
Dykstra’s shredding service to destroy customer or patient information.
... <http://www.rapidgrowthmedia.com/features/shred5607.aspx>
Chain Of Custody Control: Key To Information Security And Privacy ...
Data Storage Connection (press release) - USA
As Chief Security Officer of Iron Mountain, the global leader in
information protection and storage services, I'm happy to share my
views on understanding ...
<http://www.datastorageconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7BE
29C89D3-4476-4208-9069-C43C3A621DD0%7D&Bucket=Current+Headlines>
Emeritus professor donates 1000 books to CWU
Daily Record - Ellensburg,WA,USA
The books in his collection span more than 100 years, and include some
rare finds, according to CWU archivist Dieter Ullrich.
...<http://www.kvnews.com/articles/2007/05/23/news/doc4654a681c3a1f818124
684.txt>
Lee writings discovered in '02 provide new insight
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
Shepard said Mary Custis Lee, the unofficial family archivist, stowed
the trunks at the bank because she had an account there. She died in
1918, ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-sou--leeletters0523may2
3,0,2115808.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia>
Former archivist at Los Alamos seeks reports on security breaches ...
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
LOS ALAMOS, NM (AP) — A former archivist at Los Alamos National
Laboratory is seeking documents about prosecutions against US
Department of Energy employees
...<http://www.lcsun-news.com/latest/ci_5967722>
BT cuts costs automating HR records
IT Week - London,UK
Group HR policy manager Gill Roberts says benefits include money saved
on storage and resourcing, improved access to files and being able to
meet compliance
...<http://www.itweek.co.uk/computing/news/2190568/bt-cuts-costs-automati
ng-hr>
Woman jailed for Coke secrets theft
Aljazeera.net - Doha,Qatar
A former secretary for soft drinks firm Coca-Cola has been sentenced to
eight years in jail for planning to steal trade secrets from the
company and sell ...
<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B0BB5F14-29FB-4033-9757-1AADB1C42
CBC.htm>
Coke worker jailed for selling secrets
ABC Online - Australia
Williams was accused of walking out of the company's headquarters in
downtown Atlanta last year with confidential documents and product
samples
stashed in ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1931600.htm>
Two ex-Coke workers sentenced in Pepsi plot deal
CNN - USA
"Dirk" then requested $10000 for the initial papers, accompanied by a
letter promising to provide further documents on request, Nahmias said.
...
<http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/23/coca.cola.sentencing/>
Microsoft: Block some Office documents to assure security
ComputerworldUK - UK
"Blocking specific Office file types allows administrators to
temporarily deny users the ability to open certain files, such as when
a threat of attack from ...
<http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/cybercrime/news/index
.cfm?newsid=3135>
New security tool converts binary Office 2003 files to open XML
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
File Block allows administrators to use Group Policies and the registry
to stop users from opening Office documents. "Blocking specific Office
file types ...
<http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/05/23/new-security-to
ol-converts-binary-office-2003-files-to-open-xml>
Microsoft releases Office document security protection
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
Both features are designed to make it easier for administrators and
individual users to protect themselves from Office files that may
contain malicious ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/05/23/224025/microsoft-relea
ses-office-document-security-protection.htm>
Your way through the legal maze
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
"Data shredding techniques are relatively simple, but pulling out the
personal data is extremely difficult. We are often asked by banks about
how best to ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/05/22/223963/your-way-throug
h-the-legal-maze.htm>
Papers with personal info found in Check into Cash's trash
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
... he has often heard of situations where retiring physicians or
dentist offices have mistakenly disposed of old medical documents
without shredding them
...<http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/05/23/papers_with_persona
l_info_found_in_check_into_cashs_trash>
Compliance data needs special treatment
IT Directors - USA
... as they work towards a goal of full information lifecycle
management (ILM), will know that regulatory compliance is a pain, yet
unavoidable.
.<http://www.it-director.com/business/compliance/content.php?cid=9505>
Clinton national security adviser forfeits law license
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Berger, the Clinton White House national security adviser from 1997 to
2001 who was caught taking highly classified documents from the
National Archives, ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_509040.
html>
Action Plan: Don't Be A Victim Company
Optimize Magazine - USA
Establish a data retention plan and audit that plan regularly. - Map
out all of the places where store and handle data - inside and out of
the company. ...
<http://www.optimizemag.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19970133
2&cid=RSSfeed_OPT_News>
McAfee to take on data loss prevention
iT News - Australia
DeWalt said McAfee's Data Loss Prevention solution can prevent users
from digitally removing classified information from a computer, whether
they try to
...<http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=52721&src=site-marq>
Optimize
Asking For Trouble: Most Companies Don't Have Plans To Handle Data
Breach
<http://www.optimizemag.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199701313>
Electronic paper trail tells the tale
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... of the Ontario Superior Court ordered Air Canada to manually review
in April, 2006, as part of its corporate espionage lawsuit against
WestJet. ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070523.LAWCOLUMN23/TP
Story/Business>
Hacker hits CU, puts data of 45000 students at risk
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
An attack on a computer server at the University of Colorado has
exposed the names and Social Security numbers of almost 45000 students.
...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_555
0360,00.html>
OMB Catching Up With Social Security Policy
Tech Insider - Washington,DC,USA
The Associated Press reported yesterday that the Office of Management
and Budget has asked agencies to limit the use of Social Security
numbers when
...<http://blogs.govexec.com/techinsider/archives/2007/05/post_2.html>
Township wants Vernon Historical Society to find a new home
Advertiser-News - USA
Today, historic photographs, clothing, and tools and artifacts are
housed in the Vernon Historical Society Museum on Barrett Road, but the
bulk of the
...<http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2007/05/23/advertiser_news/news/22
.txt>
Historical society opens Lee letters to study
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Mary Custis Lee's heirs chose the Historical Society as stewards of the
collection, which historians consider significant because the
Confederate general
...<http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20070523-113238-8795r.htm>
Of bytes and briefs
May 17th 2007 | DENVER
From The Economist print edition
The courts are struggling to cope with information technology
<http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9200894>
False lustre
May 17th 2007 | WARSAW
From The Economist print edition
The Polish government is all tangled up in the past
<http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9193806>
>
MSN
Gone, But Not Forever
<http://tech.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4848920>1=10036>
After myriad data breaches, feds to cut use of Social Security numbers
SC Magazine US - USA
... of federal data breaches, agencies have been ordered to eliminate
the unnecessary collection of personal information, including Social
Security numbers. ...
<http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/659814/after-myriad-data-breaches-
feds-cut-use-social-security-numbers/>
OMB Moves to Safeguard Social Security Numbers
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Federal agencies must review their use of Social Security numbers and
come up with a plan in 120 days to eliminate their unnecessary
collection and use ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR200705
2301546.html>
NASA's chief lawyer under fire
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Morrell denied ordering the destruction of the recordings and said he
merely turned over the ones made at headquarters to Wholley.
...<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-bk-nasa052407,0,3665052.story
?coll=orl-news-headlines>
Missing Rove Emails A Violation of Records Act
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
However, according to CREW, Fitzgerald's staff was briefed before a
complete audit of the email records could be taken. Three months later,
as was first ...<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00435.htm>
Ancestry.com Puts 90M War Records Online
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA
This May 7, 1945 black-and-white photo provided by Ancestry.com from
the National Archives, shows American soldiers hugg.....(AP
Photo/Ancestry.com from the ...
<http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070524/genealogy-war-records.htm>
More records up for keeps at State archives' office
Ahmedabad Newsline - Ahmedabad,India
Vadodara, May 24: MORE princely states have come calling to State
Archives -- South Gujarat Circle Record Office to donate their rich
heritage for
...<http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=237914>
HOTSEAT- Smokin': Shelby Marshall leaves paper trail
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
On July 1, county records go online, a move that's controversial
because of privacy issues-- even though those same records are public
and anyone can mosey ...
<http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2007/05/24/HOTSEAT-marshall-A.rtf.asp
x>
Researchers turn Web blather to books
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
Von Ahn is working with the Internet Archive, which runs several
book-scanning projects, to use CAPTCHAs for this instead. Internet
Archive scans 12000
...<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Blather_to_Books.html>
New records system is 'putting lives at risk'
Comet 24 - Herts,UK
THE centralisation of patients' medical records has created chaos in
hospital clinics and is putting people's lives at risk.
...<http://www.thecomet.net/content/comet/news/story.aspx?brand=CMTOnline
&category=News&tBrand=herts24&tCategory=newscomnew&itemid=WEED24%20May%20
2007%2015%3A03%3A10%3A410>
Birmingham News, Thu, 24 May 2007 1:35 AM PDT
145 years later, Alabama gets flag back
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1179994924193360.xml&coll=2
WASHINGTON - The last time anyone from Alabama saw the flag of the 1st
Alabama
Infantry was when its own Confederate troops woke up for morning muster
on a
Mississippi River island off the Missouri shore on April 8, 1862.
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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