Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. And then I flew to Brazil.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. The “attack-path” is very close to what it’s observable on modern threats since years: eMail campaign with an attached document and actionable text on it. Stage4: AZORult evidence. I hope you had fun on this, I did!

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The Texas Record

JANUARY 15, 2020

In this blog series, TSLAC analysts highlight and extol the virtues of their favorite record series. Until electronic records are transferred to and made usable in a new software environment, or there are no electronic records being retained to meet an approved retention period that require the software to be retrieved and read.

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The Texas Record

JANUARY 15, 2020

In this blog series, TSLAC analysts highlight and extol the virtues of their favorite record series. Until electronic records are transferred to and made usable in a new software environment, or there are no electronic records being retained to meet an approved retention period that require the software to be retrieved and read.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

While I was thinking about how to answer to such questions I received a MalSpam with a Microsoft Office document attached by sheer coincidence, so I decided to write a little bit on it. Attached to a nice crafted MalSpam email hitting my inbox a malicious Office Document having a pretty neat “autoopen()” Macro. Traffic Patterns Stage3.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Technical Analysis. MITRE ATT&CK.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As I’ll point out in tomorrow’s blog post (spoiler alert!), As Craig explains: “Though all electronically stored information is inherently electronically searchable, computers don’t structure or search all ESI in the same way; so, we must process ESI to normalize it to achieve uniformity for indexing and search.”.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Most people know me because of the blog, and you have to love eDiscovery to write about it every day. I once wrote an article about CAR systems back in the mid-80s – Computer Assisted (microfilm) Retrieval (good luck finding that article today) – and it seemed like the wave of the future back then. So, what do you think?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

To prove ownership over the hijacked firms, they hire low-wage image editors online to help fabricate and/or modify a number of official documents tied to the business — including tax records and utility bills. Another team member works on revising the business documents and registering them on various sites.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 9, 2019

As Craig notes in the latest blog post on his terrific Ball in Your Court blog ( Electronic Storage in a Nutshell ), he finished the E-Discovery Workbook for the 2019 Georgetown E-Discovery Training Academy (which we covered here ). Do you feel you have an adequate understanding of technical concepts like electronic storage?

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eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 2, 2018

Cherry, finding (among other things) that the defendants “have not met their burden of showing that” the plaintiff had control of the data, denied the defendants’ motion to compel the plaintiff to produce supplemental documents, including a forensically imaged hard drive. Case Background.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 In another way, if the victim opens the document and he/she is not aware of “secret key” how can he/she get infected? In that case, Microsoft programmers used a special and static key to decrypt the “Read Only” documents.

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eDiscovery Daily

JUNE 20, 2019

On March 7, 2018, Schulton accepted service of a deposition and document subpoena to which he responded: “I left ScholarChip with nothing but the knowledge gained over 15 years of employment. To use definitions from my recent document subpoena, I have no ‘CLIENT DATA,’ ‘DELIVERABLES,’ ‘SOFTWARE,’ or ‘WORK PRODUCT.’”. Judge’s Ruling.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown). million drivers’ details (3.3 In other news… U.S. Justice Department announces seizure of domain names used in spear phishing campaign posing as U.S.

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eDiscovery Daily

JULY 26, 2018

It was also charged that the relators intentionally deleted computer files concerning these conversations and threw away the computer on which the files were stored, thereby precluding examination of the relevant metadata. The relators produced no documents in response to the requests. Judge’s Ruling.

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The Texas Record

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Archives and information services division at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has a sophisticated electronic records processes. During E-records 2020 Brian Thomas, an Electronic Records Specialist at TSLAC, presented “What Happens Electronic Records Sent to the State Archives?” doc to.pdf).

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eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In this claim of retaliatory dismissals from the defendant’s community college in violation of the North Carolina Whistleblower Protection Act, the plaintiffs served discovery requests on the defendants, including for ESI located in the school’s computers and servers. Case opinion link courtesy of eDiscovery Assistant.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For instance, think about designing a car: instead of interpreting pages of documents, you can visualize the vehicle’s structure and functions through static and dynamic executable models—a preview before the actual build. In other words, MBSE elevates systems engineering by using models. Explore what Rhapsody can do for you?

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 16, 2020

Last week, The Sedona Conference® (TSC) and its Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention & Production (WG1) announced the publication of the Public Comment Version of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Rule 45 Subpoenas to Non-Parties, Second Edition. Even our blog didn’t exist back then. That was 12 years ago!

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 8, 2018

Mary is the author of A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery , considered by many to be the first popular book on e-discovery. Brett speaks around the country on litigation support, e-discovery, Mac, and iOS-related topics and today authors a variety of blogs and online courses for legal professionals.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. You can read more about that on Bob Ambrogi’s LawSites blog site here. Browning Marean and I spent years trying to begin a law school curriculum that included computer education with no success. Tom’s overview is split into five parts, so we’ll cover each part separately.

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IT Governance

JULY 12, 2019

This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. appeared first on IT Governance Blog. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? The crime scene. Your investigation should begin at the scene of the incident. Find out more >> .

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 2, 2020

Kutsomarkos provided pdf versions of documents from the laptop…However, the pdf files scrubbed the metadata from the documents and that metadata should be available on the hard drives…Also, the computer in Garrett was a personal computer, but here the computer was Ms. Kutsomarkos noted Ms. Dixit, her employer.”.

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eDiscovery Daily

JULY 25, 2018

The plaintiff requested documents from Mitchell pertaining to “the correspondence, purchase, and analysis of the [computer valuation system]” Mitchell utilized to create valuations of total loss vehicles for the defendant and served Mitchell through its Oklahoma registered agent. Case Background. So, what do you think?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

which according to Microsoft documentation dates back to 2012. Additional technical details, including Yara Rules and IoCs, are reported in the original analysis published by Marco Ramilli on his blog: [link]. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. WebService.dll assemply version.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2018

FERC also used the rule to direct NERC to expand scope of the Reliability Standards so that they covered Electronic Access Control and Monitoring Systems (“EACMS”) associated with medium and high impact bulk electric system (“BES”) Cyber Systems. Procedural History.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 6, 2019

The Appellee’s deposition was taken in April 2012, where she testified that she had obtained a new desktop computer and had destroyed her old computer in December 2011. She did not preserve any records, documents, or emails from her old computer and did not inform anybody, including the City Attorney, that she was destroying it.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding blockchain and legal technology titled Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. Or think of it as a document in Google Docs that is being seen by multiple people simultaneously. If not, keep reading!

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eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In this claim of retaliatory dismissals from the defendant’s community college in violation of the North Carolina Whistleblower Protection Act, the plaintiffs served discovery requests on the defendants, including for ESI located in the school’s computers and servers. Case opinion link courtesy of eDiscovery Assistant.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 9, 2018

Electronic Arts, Inc., Three former NFL players claimed that Electronic Arts (EA) used their likenesses in the Madden NFL videogame series without authorization. In Michael E. Davis, et al. 10-cv-03328-RS, (N.D. April 3, 2018) , California Magistrate Judge Donna M. ” Case Background. ” Case Background.

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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In this case for workplace harassment and discrimination, this particular dispute began with the plaintiff’s document request, which required the defendant to produce emails and text messages exchanged between certain key parties involving the plaintiff. Case Background. Judge’s Ruling. Judge’s Ruling. So, what do you think?

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Here’s our latest blog post in our Throwback Thursdays series where we are revisiting some of the eDiscovery best practice posts we have covered over the years and discuss whether any of those recommended best practices have changed since we originally covered them. So, what do you think?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Attached to the email a suspicious word document was waiting to be opened from the victim. Hash 7ebd1d6fa8c21b0d0c015475ab8c7225f949c13a33d0a39b8c069072a4281392 Threat Macro Dropper Brief Description Document Dropper Ssdeep 384:nFZ5ZtDGGkLmTUrioRPATRn633Dmej0SnJzbmiVywP0jKk:n1oqwT2J633DVgiVy25. Image1: Word Document Content.

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Info Source

JULY 13, 2023

As with the Brother device, the clean design lines and neutral colours of the product perhaps bear more of a resemblance to consumer electronics as opposed to a device designed for the ‘office’. Cutting the cord” between PC and document scanners, allowing the transfer of fully formed PDF files.

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