Does the public Enron email database have too much private information? By Monica Bay Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, May 6, 2013 CEO John Martin announced on Tuesday that he had “discovered” personally-identifiable information while working in the Enron sandbox with his company’s namesake document analysis software, BeyondRecognition. In his blog post, and in a [...]
International Organization for Standards approved an e-discovery project. By Steven Teppler All Articles, Law Technology News, April 30, 2013 A technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, gave final approval for the development of an international standard for the discovery of electronically stored information at its meeting last week hosted by the European [...]
By William A. Tanenbaum All Articles, Law Technology News, November 12, 2012 The presidential election offers practical lessons to companies planning to profit from Big Data. The data-driven get-out-the-vote operations illustrate the four steps in Big Data: (i) data collection; (ii) analytics based on the data collected; (iii) business decisions based on the analytics; and [...]
By Sean R. O’Brien and Sara A. Welch All Articles, New York Law Journal, November 5, 2012 The recent arrest of Sergey Aleynikov by New York State authorities on charges relating to his alleged misappropriation of Goldman Sachs’ high-frequency trading computer code, an arrest which followed his acquittal on federal charges based on the same [...]
People, events, deals, tablets, trends, and every now and then, gossip! By Monica Bay All Articles, Law Technology News, October 29, 2012 Money Talks: Friday morning, Robert Mattern held the rapt attention of the attendees at the 11th Annual Hildebrandt Institute-West LegalEdCenter Law Firm COO & CFO Forum, as he shared the results of the [...]
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, Oct 28, 2012 6:00 AM The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two cases with potentially broad implications to technology users, one reviewing whether consumers can resell copyright-protected products they have purchased and the second challenging an electronic surveillance program at the U.S. National Security Agency.In one [...]
Legal technology industry developments from October 16 to 31, 2012. By Michael Roach All Articles, Law Technology News, October 25, 2012 TOP NEWS Among the features in Adobe’s recently announced Acrobat XI software is support for the PDF/A-3 standard, which was recently published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 19005-3:2012. Part 3 of [...]
By Judy Stouffer All Articles, The Legal Intelligencer, October 22, 2012 I am continually surprised by the number of firms that are still using hard servers in-house. Not only do those servers become antiquated more quickly, but the volumes of programming and information we are forcing them to handle may not be able to keep [...]
Lucian Constantin Reporter, IDG News Service, IDG News Service Lucian Constantin writes about information security, privacy and data protection. 10/17/2012 Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year, according to researchers from from DDoS mitigation vendor Prolexic. This is significant because very few companies or organizations have [...]
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service, Oct 12, 2012 10:42 AM An Arizona man has admitted his involvement in a May 2011 computer attack against the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment that was carried out by the now-defunct LulzSec hacker group.On Thursday, Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, who used the online aliases of “neuron,” “royal” [...]