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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS. National Association ; Viacom International ; and Walgreens.

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Using his familiarity with the Imperial protocols, an Imperial ship, and an outdated Imperial authentication code, Rook convinced the controllers of the Shield Gate to let his ship full of Rebels into Scarif. K-2SO was then able to login to the computer system in the Scarif base.

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Understanding eDiscovery in Criminal Cases, Part Four: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

So, it is no surprise that one of the growing electronic aspects of criminal law is social media as evidence. Furthermore, electronic evidence, such as social media, must be authenticated, that is shown to be what it is supposed to be. This supports authenticity and counters arguments that it was forged or manipulated.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”

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Understanding eDiscovery in Criminal Cases, Part Two: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

Because more than 90 percent of documents today are generated in electronic format, ESI is becoming more and more prominent in criminal matters, especially white collar criminal cases. This exception is generally allowed for protection of law enforcement officers and may not give them the right to seize a computer unless it poses a threat.

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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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AI, Records, and Accountability

ARMA International

AI refers to computer systems that are able to perform tasks that are considered to require human intelligence – that is, cognitive tasks. six-in-ten Americans (58%) feel that computer programs will always reflect the biases of the people who designed them.” Definitions of AI. A central ethical issue for AI is bias in ML algorithms.