WHEN THE BOTNET named Mirai first appeared in September, it announced its existence with dramatic flair. After flooding a prominent security journalist’s website with traffic from zombie Internet of Things devices, it managed to make much of the internet unavailable for millions of people by overwhelming Dyn, a company that provides a significant portion of…
I once made the argument, years ago, that if you weren’t concerned about eDiscovery as a business owner, you should be. Not because you’re a huge litigation risk, per se, but because eventually, every business has to deal with some sort of complaint, or lawsuit, and when it happens, there is so much data sitting…
In The Big Sort, Bill Bishop shows how, over the last 30 years, Americans have sorted themselves into like-minded neighborhoods. The same appears to be happening on the web. All the empirical research to date suggests that the reason is not the use of personalization algorithms per se. Algorithms can easily expose us to…
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the ABA has a new book by Ralph Losey out all about eDiscovery. I’ll let Ralph describe it himself: As the title suggests, this book is written for everyone with an interest in e-discovery. It is an introductory to intermediate level book. I tried to make it a…
Interestingly enough, I had planned to write about this topic with a look at automation, specifically self-driving cars and trucks, but then I saw something else in the news online and thought, “yeah, that too!”. The bit of news I saw was about another “adult” dating site getting hacked and something like 300 million user…
“Some police forces in England and Wales risk being “overwhelmed” by the volume of digital evidence being collected, the police watchdog has warned. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary said many forces had a “significant gap” in digital skills. It said there were sometimes “unacceptable delays” in basic tasks like getting data off a mobile phone….