Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. On Wednesday, the St.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. In the second phase, once access was gained to a computer, the malware would create and execute a copy of itself on the system.In
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eDiscovery Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
At Appellant’s apartment, after the agents discovered a single computer, an HP Envy 700 desktop, which was encrypted with TrueCrypt, Appellant informed the agents that he lived alone, that he was the sole user of the computer, and that only he knew the password to his computer.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 25, 2022
Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. This article looks at encryption, how it fits into cryptology, how cryptographic algorithms work, types, use cases, and more.
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. 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. It’s a hacker’s nightmare.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 26, 2020
Wolford denied the defendant’s Motion for Return of Property Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g), ruling that “[t]he government’s evidentiary interest in the [defendant’s] iPhone outweighs Defendant’s interest in its return, at least at this stage of the proceedings”.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 3, 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. And since the decentralized nature of blockchains encourages data sharing, it works better whether the network is local or worldwide. Blockchain eliminates the risks that come with centralized data because it stores data across the network.
eDiscovery Daily
OCTOBER 9, 2019
So, a workstation displaying the time of an email in Central time would display it as UTC?05:00 So, it’s 7:11 (oh, thank heaven!) Does anybody really know what time it is? OK, it’s an old song by Chicago (back then, they were known as the Chicago Transit Authority). But, the question of what time it really is has a significant effect on how eDiscovery is handled. Why is it a big deal? The post Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?:
ARMA International
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope. Abstract.
eDiscovery Daily
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
According to Bloomberg, the breach occurred when two attackers accessed a private GitHub coding site used by Uber software engineers and then used login credentials they obtained there to access data stored on an Amazon Web Services account that handled computing tasks for the company. Travis Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder and former CEO, learned of the hack in November 2016, a month after it took place, the company said. Electronic Discovery Privacy Security
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Deepfake technology, what’s it? This is done through deep learning methodologies such as the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) i.e., a group of neural network models for machine learning, deputed to teach computers how to process information by emulating the human brain.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Drones currently occupy a unique legal position as they are classified as both aircraft and networked computing devices. Departing from the general market statistics concerning drones, it is prudent to better understand how a flying laptop poses a threat to enterprise operations.
ARMA International
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope. Abstract.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline.
Positively RIM
APRIL 27, 2017
Today’s Blog is sponsored by MER 2017, Cohasset Associates’ 25 th annual educational conference on electronic records management, in Chicago, May 8-10. For most of us RIMmers, or Info Governors, it is at least as important to be allies with IT. Managing electronic records is arguably more difficult than managing paper. Just as there is often a gap between RIMmers and Legal, there may be an even bigger gulf between RIM and IT. It’s high-quality time.
IT Governance
MAY 4, 2021
It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. In case you missed it, you may also be interested in our first quarterly review of data breaches and cyber attacks.
eDiscovery Daily
JUNE 2, 2019
McCarthy, finding that the plaintiffs “have not demonstrated they have been prejudiced” by the loss of the plaintiff former employee’s work computer, denied the plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions “without prejudice to reassertion of the motion if through discovery it is determined that some specific evidence is beyond Plaintiffs’ reach” for the defendant’s “clear failure” to preserve the computer. Case Law Electronic Discovery Preservation SanctionsIn Mafille v.
eDiscovery Daily
AUGUST 15, 2018
Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including eDiscovery and the GDPR: Ready or Not, Here it Comes (which we covered as a webcast ), Understanding eDiscovery in Criminal Cases (which we also covered as a webcast ), ALSP – Not Just Your Daddy’s LPO , Why Is TAR Like a Bag of M&M’s? Then came Google with it’s equally fast web-based searching. Does your organization have a plan for preparing for litigation before it happens?
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 27, 2019
When it comes to data breaches and other cybersecurity threats, many people discuss the threats from outside hackers. But, it’s the internal employees who can do as much, if not a lot more, damage to an organization’s IT infrastructure. Needham pleaded not guilty to two charges of the Computer Misuse Act – one count of unauthorized access to computer material and one count of unauthorized modification of computer material – but was convicted in January 2019.
The Schedule
APRIL 26, 2019
Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.” I am not in IT and I certainly cannot fathom providing technological solutions to an institution as large, diverse and decentralized as the University of Michigan. Annoyed, my eye twitching a little, I closed my computer and went home for the evening. This is when it hit me. I don’t actually even know if IT knows about the University Archives outside of “old things”.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Office furniture company Steelcase was hit by Ryuk ransomware attack that forced it to shut down its network to avoid the malware from spreading. It is the largest office furniture manufacturer in the world.
eDiscovery Daily
DECEMBER 1, 2019
The defendant was also subject to the Oregon National Guard’s acceptable use policy and Employees of the Oregon National Guard, including the defendant, were required to sign the policy before they received computer access. Case Law Electronic Discovery Email Privacy
eDiscovery Daily
DECEMBER 15, 2019
” As a precautionary measure, the NOLA tweet confirmed, the city’s IT department gave the order for all employees to power down computers and disconnect from Wi-Fi. It isn’t yet known if the two were connected. Electronic Discovery Security
Adam Shostack
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Capture the Flag Events (CTFs) and electronic Sports (eSports) are good examples of a relatively new trend. My conclusion is that CTFs are intrinsically an eSport with the attribute of having a strong educational value. Usually it’s grass or some form of terrain where people are playing a game. It can have spectators either on-site or remote using a television. It was during a collective gathering of a StarCraft II tournament in 2011, called BarCraft Montreal.
eDiscovery Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
Craig Ball once made a great point in responding to a post of mine about educating lawyers when he said “ We not only need to persuade lawyers to take the plunge, we need to insure there’s a pool for them to jump into. Do they go to a community night course on computers? Pursue online education? I don’t think I’ve even seen a really good reading list on the topic (and much as I’d like for it to be, consuming the offerings on my web site isn’t enough). ”.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Breaking News Hacking hacking news information security news IT Information Security malware Newsletter Pierluigi Paganini Security Affairs Security NewsA new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!
eDiscovery Daily
OCTOBER 22, 2018
It’s here! It’s almost two days of educational sessions covering a wide range of topics! If you’re in the DC area, it’s not too late to attend! This year’s Washington DC event includes nearly two days of educational sessions covers topics ranging from privacy to cybersecurity to social media to cloud computing. It’s about three blocks away from the White House. now is the time to do it.
eDiscovery Daily
MAY 9, 2019
Leave it to Craig Ball to take a somewhat complex technical concept and break it down to the fewest possible words – i.e., in a “nutshell”. 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 ). And, you thought that “Cliff” was good at summarizing large amounts of text (think about it).
eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
It’s Valentine’s Day! Most people know me because of the blog, and you have to love eDiscovery to write about it every day. Yes, it was that long ago. 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. It was really cool – when it worked right. ;o). As Martha Stewart would say, “it’s a good thing.”.
eDiscovery Daily
APRIL 7, 2019
Janik begins his article by referencing the DLA Piper NotPetya ransomware attack in 2017, as follows: “Imagine it’s a usual Tuesday morning, and coffee in hand you stroll into your office. Right inside the door, you see a handwritten notice on a big whiteboard which says: All network services are down, DO NOT turn on your computers! The ABA Opinion discusses three duties under its Model Rules: the duty of competence, the duty of communication, and the duty of confidentiality.
IT Governance
JULY 12, 2019
Several answered with some variation of ‘find out how it happened’. This might seem counterproductive: with so much post-breach chaos, from isolating the incident and letting staff know what’s going on to getting back to work and notifying affected individuals, surely it’s a time to be looking forward, not backward. This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. Fortunately, IT Governance is here to help.
The Schedule
APRIL 20, 2018
Services such as Archive-It require institutions to make a financial commitment towards server space and the employment of technical archivists to manage institutional collections. Importantly, modern institutional archives do not make it a practice of taking things, or blindly capturing online records, without first attempting to secure the rights to do so. I think it would also behoove us to discuss “vital records” for a moment.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 19, 2020
Zoom candidly reported that its software has “degraded performance” and its phone service had a “partial outage.” So, there are workarounds; however, I have heard some people have had issues with the computer audio option as well. Electronic Discovery Industry Trends
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.
eDiscovery Daily
JUNE 20, 2019
OK, it’s not as catchy as Lionel Ritchie’s hit song , but it’s funny. :o). According to the plaintiff, in February 2016, named defendant ScholarChip told the plaintiff it would have to pay substantially higher fees if it wanted to continue using the software platform it developed. He also saved a copy of his ScholarChip email account on his personal computer. Case Law Electronic Discovery Preservation Sanctions
eDiscovery Daily
JANUARY 23, 2019
21 is broad in scope, requesting production of all Plaintiff’s cell phones for inspection and copying, without any limitation on the data ultimately to be produced from the copy or image of the phone(s)” and observed that “Defendant sets out no protocol or process through which the data it deems responsive would be culled from the copy or image of the phone(s) and any unresponsive and/or privileged data removed or protected.”. Case Law Electronic Discovery Mobile Devices Production
eDiscovery Daily
MAY 6, 2019
In the case originally involving the Appellant’s suit against the City of Daytona Beach over zoning, the Appellee was never a party to the Appellant’s action against the City, but the Appellant’s operative complaint contained two references to the Appellee in its general allegations. 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. Should it be different?
eDiscovery Daily
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
To begin to answer that question, let’s take a look at the ethical obligation that lawyers have to be technically competent and the state of technology education for lawyers today. As one of my good friends in the Louisiana Bar Association pointed out to me when I asked why the LSBA hadn’t produced a specific rule for such a duty, “well we always just assumed it was just part of the general duty of competence. Education. Well, not if law schools have anything to say about it.
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.
eDiscovery Daily
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
Now, it should be feasible to direct custodians to undertake a simple online preservation process for Android phones having many of the same advantages as the preservation methodology I described for iPhones two years ago. As a result, “examiners may revive the tried-and-true cloning of evidence to clean devices then collecting from the restored device” (just like they once did with computer drives). Electronic Discovery Mobile DevicesSo many topics, so little time (again).
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