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Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology, Part Two

eDiscovery Daily

Much speculation centered around the name being based on a setting in the 1996 movie Rising Sun; however, it was believed the true authors were several cryptography and computer science experts of non-Japanese descent. The audit trail itself is visible to all participants yet allows encryption of individual transactions.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

Victims of Equifax’s 2017 data breach were given the go-ahead to launch a class-action lawsuit. This meant they weren’t encrypted, making them freely accessible to as many as 20,000 employees, most of whom had no legitimate reason to access the information. million people – just under a third of the country’s population.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.