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Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life

Krebs on Security

For example, when he downloaded and tried to rename the file, the right arrow key on the keyboard moved his cursor to the left, and vice versa. In essence, this is a.eml file — an electronic mail format or email saved in plain text — masquerading as a.PDF file.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?: eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays

eDiscovery Daily

This post was originally published on May 9, 2011 , when eDiscovery Daily was less than nine months old. Let’s look at one example: A multinational corporation has offices from coast to coast and potentially responsive emails are routinely sent between East Coast and West Coast offices. Why is it a big deal?

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Doing Digital Right (A Book Review)

Information is Currency

The challenge isn’t just managing electronic records, but non-records, content and other data as all information needs to be governed because all information provides risk because of many factors such as e-discovery, data breaches and so much more. This book is primarily about digital disruption and how to be prepared for it.

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Why Is TAR Like a Bag of M&M’s?, Part Two: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

11 (2011): Overall, the myth that exhaustive manual review is the most effective—and therefore, the most defensible—approach to document review is strongly refuted. Again, Ralph Losey provides a good example. (I’m I’m not trying to pick on Ralph, he is just such a prolific writer that his examples are everywhere…and deservedly so).

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eDiscovery for the Rest of Us: eDiscovery Best Practices, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

By 2011, the question was paramount but we began to see some glimmer of hope. In the book we wrote as a follow up to our ABA TechShow session (Electronic Discovery for Small Cases (ABA, 2012), Bruce Olson and I listed several, including: Acrobat Legal Edition: adobe.com. By 2012, the products Craig Ball mentioned had materialized.

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e-Records Sustainability and Emerging Formats – 3 Tips from Andy Warhol

Preservica

October 10 th is Electronic Records Day, an annual event sponsored by the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) to raise awareness among US state government agencies, the general public, related professional organizations, and other stakeholders about the crucial role that electronic records play in their world.