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Ride the Lightning: Electronic Evidence

An electronic evidence and computer forensics blog by noted author, lecturer and consultant Sharon Nelson.

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Last Entry: November 04, 2020 at 10:00:00

FBI Investigating Suspicious Robocalls Warning Voters to ?Stay Safe and Stay Home?

Posted on November 04, 2020
As I write, we do not know the outcome of the Presidential election. What we do know is that there were (and perhaps continue to be) efforts to interfere with the election's outcome. As the Washington Post reported on November...

Lawyers and the Cloud: 2020 ABA Legal Technology Report Statistics

Posted on November 02, 2020
The 2020 ABA Legal Technology Report is always a good guide to where lawyers are with technology. In this summary of the section on lawyers' use of cloud computing, there are some reasons to be concerned. The time period is...

Layoffs at Kirkland & Ellis, the World?s Wealthiest Law Firm

Posted on October 29, 2020
Above the Law posted on October 26 that Kirkland & Ellis has quietly been conducting layoffs. Even for a firm with more than 1,000 partners, Kirkland has lost an unusually high number of them (54) in 2020. The firm was...

Law Firm Data Breach Results in Exposure of Google Employees? Data

Posted on October 28, 2020
TechCrunch reported on October 27 that immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has confirmed a data breach involving the personal information of current and former Google employees. New York-based Fragomen provides companies with employment verification screening services...

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North Carolina Court Rules That COVID Shutdown Orders Constituted ?Physical Loss? of Property

Posted on October 27, 2020
The National Law Journal reported on October 23 that we have the country's first decision, by a North Carolina state court, granting summary judgment to a group of restaurants' claims seeking insurance coverage for business interruption losses arising out of...

Cybersecurity Stats are in for the ABA?s 2020 Legal Technology Survey Report

Posted on October 26, 2020
Though the entire ABA 2020 Legal Technology Survey Report is out, first up online were the stats related to Technology Basics and Security. Respondents were asked a total of 262 questions, with 21 questions focused on security. The attorneys who...

The Astonishing Stats from Clio?s Legal Trends Report

Posted on October 22, 2020
I am late in getting to this post, but thanks again to Clio CEO Jack Newton and his wonderful staff for getting me the slides from the presentation of the data from Clio's Legal Trends Report which was officially released...

New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin After He Accidentally Exposes Himself Online on a Zoom Call

Posted on October 21, 2020
I thought I had seen just about everything on Zoom calls, but this story demonstrated conclusively that I had not. The New York Times published a story on October 19th reporting that The New Yorker stated that it had suspended...

COVID-19 Drives Businesses on a Forced March to Zero Trust Architecture

Posted on October 20, 2020
CPO Magazine carried a October 19 post about a recently released Forrester study (commissioned by Cloudflare). Key findings: Working from home compelled firms to transform how they operated in the cloud. However, 80% of the IT decision-makers interviewed said their...

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month ? It?s a Good Time for a Security Checkup!

Posted on October 19, 2020
Thanks to our longtime friend, frequent co-author and co-presenter Dave Ries for allowing us to repost this alert from his law firm, Clark Hill. This month is the 17th Annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States. This year's...

Interview with Clio CEO Jack Newton at the 2020 Clio Cloud Conference

Posted on October 15, 2020
I have really been enjoying the 2020 Clio Cloud Conference with two more days to go. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Clio CEO and co-founder Jack Newton. He was smiling broadly, as indeed he should have been given...

Global Law Firm Seyfarth Shaw Crippled by Ransomware Attack

Posted on October 14, 2020
The hits just keep on coming. Global law firm Seyfarth Shaw announced that it has been the victim of a cyberattack presumed to be ransomware on October 10th. As I write this post on October 13, the following language appears...

Microsoft Celebrates Cybersecurity Awareness Month with Excellent Articles for Consumers

Posted on October 13, 2020
Microsoft decided to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a series of articles designed for end-users (and consumers) on how to get more secure. The most recent article, published yesterday, is "Be Safer Over Wireless Connections." This is an important topic...

Three New Invaluable Cybersecurity Resources

Posted on October 12, 2020
Thanks, as ever, to Dave Ries (friend, frequent co-author and frequent co-presenter) for passing along these three recent invaluable cybersecurity resources. 1. On September 30, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis...

FBI Warning: Using Hotel Wireless Networks is Risky

Posted on October 08, 2020
An October 6 post from TechRepublic underscored what we so often preach. Using hotel wireless networks is risky. The FBI apparently agrees and has issued a warning that is entitled "A Covid-19 Driven Increase in Telework From Hotels Could Pose...

Consumer Reports: Your COVID-19 Travel Toolkit

Posted on October 07, 2020
This October 1 article from Consumer Reports is an invaluable resource. There is no doubt that travel increases the likelihood of getting ? and spreading COVID-19. Folks are traveling more ? for business, to visit family ? there are many...

Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Issued by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US

Posted on October 06, 2020
On September 1, the cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued a joint advisory highlighting technical approaches to uncovering malicious cyberactivity, with suggested mitigation practices...

Hit by Ransomware and Paid the Ransom? A Huge Federal Fine May Await You

Posted on October 05, 2020
First, I want to thank all the RTL readers who were so struck by this news last week that they sent me links to help cover this story. I've never had so many readers write on a single day. The...

If You Are Hit by Ransomware, Do You Negotiate? If So, How?

Posted on October 01, 2020
If You Are Hit by Ransomware, How Do You Negotiate? Man, that's a good question. Why would you ever pay? Especially if you have good backups? As cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier notes in a blog post, there are solid arguments...

Dangerous Waters: How the Police Get Information from Amazon

Posted on September 30, 2020
TechCrunch had an interesting (and scary) post on September 27 about how easy it is for the police to get data from Amazon. Actually, anyone can access portions of a web portal used by law enforcement to request customer data...

Introducing the Ring Car Cam: ?Alexa, I?m Getting Pulled Over?

Posted on September 29, 2020
A recent CNET post introduced the Ring Car Cam, a dual-camera dashcam with connected features powered by Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. It records video of the road and the vehicle's cabin as you drive, which in the case of an...

Gartner Warning: Drop Everything and Secure Remote Access

Posted on September 28, 2020
We might not issue quite such a dire warning, but it is true that many law firms and businesses, while they are operating remotely, are not necessarily doing so securely. And with the increase in attacks on home networks to...

?Zooming? Into 2021 with Audio/Video Discovery

Posted on September 24, 2020
The title of this post is the title of an ACEDS webinar I just signed up for. Below is the description. Two of my all-time favorite speakers, Brett Burney and Doug Austin, are presenting this free webinar along with Ashley...

NIST: Recovering from Ransomware and Other Destructive Events

Posted on September 23, 2020
NIST has just published Special Publication 1800-11: Data Integrity: Recovering from Ransomware and Other Destructive Events. The publication is free to download. From the abstract: "Businesses face a near-constant threat of destructive malware, ransomware, malicious insider activities, and even honest...

Podcast: What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Meant to Us

Posted on September 22, 2020
I was pleased to be asked by Legal Talk Network to take part in a non-political podcast tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ten women leaders (that's LTN talking, not me) shared how the late Supreme Court Justice inspired them...

The First Death Linked to a Ransomware Attack on a Hospital?

Posted on September 21, 2020
I added the question mark in the post title because those who have written about the story have been careful with their wording. The Verge posted on September 17 that a woman in Germany died during a ransomware attack on...

Are You Subscribed to Jim Calloway?s Law Practice Tips? You Should Be.

Posted on September 17, 2020
I confess that I am prejudiced in my recommendation. Jim and I have been friends for ? well, decades. We are the co-hosts of The Legal Talk Network's Digital Edge podcast. And we are in constant touch with one another...

COVID-19 Cybercrimes: The Stuff of Nightmares

Posted on September 16, 2020
ZDNet posted on September 14 a rather horrifying list of COVID-19 cybercrimes, many of them related to working from home. It was not surprising that the number of unsecured remote desktop machines has risen by more than 40% since the...

The Deplorable State of Law Firm Security

Posted on March 25, 2011
In our most recent Digital Detectives podcast for Legal Talk Network, John and I were happy to welcome Rob Lee, a Director with the information security firm Mandiant and the curriculum lead for digital forensic training at the SANS Institute,...

Virginia Law Signed Exempting Computer Forensics from Private Investigator Licensing

Posted on March 21, 2011
John and I were behind the initiative to draft a bill exempting computer forensics from private investigator licensing in Virginia. The bill, sponsored by Delegate Mark Keam and co-sponsored by Delegate Scott Surovell, was signed into law last week. We...

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