I saw the news about the new Macbook and the thing that was all over the reports was the same thing that sort of smacked me across the face, figuratively. The lack of ports for a professional machine. So, as someone who uses a laptop on the road in order to do my job, I…
“As a Wall Street Journal blog reported, ransomware has exploded, the attacks more sophisticated as hackers are encouraged by the percentage of victim who pay the ransom. Insurance underwriter Beazley released a report last Thursday in which it said ransomware attacks will be four times higher in 2016 than last year. Sadly, hackers don’t need…
As I was watching TV in my hotel room the other night, I caught one of the latest commercials by the truth anti-smoking campaign. While I’m no fan of smoking, I found the ad to be offensive, because of the stunning lack of credibility. I’ll let you judge the ad for yourself first, than add…
The lawyers in both instances understood there are technology solutions and process workflows that would help them, and they are content to leave it at that. In private conversations some demonstrated intellectual intrigue for what we do – after all, when you are one of the few discovery solutions providers at a conference without a discovery focus, you…
“One of the nifty and powerful tools in our litigation support tool belt is “regular expressions.” We use regular expressions to match patterns of data that we need to search for and then perhaps manipulate in some way. A few examples of easy-to-recognize “data patterns” are social security numbers (999-99-9999) and phone numbers (999-999-9999). Both…
An unnamed US intelligence official was quoted by NBC News as calling the leak of contractor Ian Mellul’s e-mails “the most damaging compromise of the security of the president of the United States that I’ve seen in decades”—one caused by the use of an outside personal e-mail account for government business. The e-mails included full…