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Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

Krebs on Security

The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S. These sealed documents will not be uploaded to CM/ECF.

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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.

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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

Krebs on Security

“ Bluetana ,” a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapidly and accurately locate compromised fuel stations across the nation, a study released this week suggests. student and principal author of the study.

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Alleged Member of Neo-Nazi Swatting Group Charged

Krebs on Security

According to the affidavit, Kelley was instrumental in setting up and maintaining the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel called “ Deadnet ” that was used by he and other co-conspirators to plan, carry out and document their swatting attacks.

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Transforming the future: A journey into model-based systems engineering at Singapore Institute of Technology

IBM Big Data Hub

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.

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“We’re all mad here”: Google Team Drives

The Schedule

Another – albeit virtual – basement to stuff documents into? Annoyed, my eye twitching a little, I closed my computer and went home for the evening. ITS provides a comparison matrix to assist members of the University community to make decisions as to what collaboration and document storage services they need.

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Mike Q Says the Weakest Link in TAR is Humans: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

We train the software by categorizing the training documents, we operate the software, we analyze the outcome. million documents. However, sampling by the plaintiffs (and later confirmed by United) found that the production contained only 600,000 documents that were responsive to their requests (about 17% of the total production).