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RIM Helps Russia, China Monitor BlackBerry Users’ E-mails Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Research In Motion executives are fond of saying that their platform is more secure than other mobile providers. For example, Scott Tzoke, RIM’s VP of Security was recently quoted as saying that BlackBerrys are “secure right out of the box” (meaning that no additional mobile security protection is needed) and that RIM offers enterprises with the most secure mobile computing option thanks to the ability to create security settings for all enterprise users via its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
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RIM Helps Russia, China Monitor BlackBerry Users’ E-mails
Government agencies are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to engage the public, but they will also need to establish a clear, well-defined social media strategy to prevent potential backlash, according to industry watchers. Lawrence Goh, partner of technology architecture at Accenture Southeast Asia, Australia and South Korea, noted that while such social media platforms are a good way of reaching out to the public, governments and civil servants need to exercise caution to ensure the “overall communications strategy and messages” are aligned.
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Govts need well-defined social media strategy
The Editor interviews Beth S. Rose , Member of the firm of Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. and nationally known for her defense of pharmaceutical and medical device companies in complex product liability litigation.
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E-Discovery: Opt For Major Changes Rather Than Tinkering At The Edges Of The Rules
Lawyers for Civil Justice (LCJ), DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC), and the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), recently announced strong support for a fundamental review of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) now underway by the Federal Judicial Conference Rules Committee. A Defense Bar white paper, Reshaping the Rules of Civil Procedure for the 21st Century , was submitted to the recent 2010 Conference on Civil Litigation at Duke Law School.
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Defense Bar Calls For Changes To The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure Meaningful Amendments Needed To Improve The Administration Of Justice
Computer Incident Response Team is an expert group that handles computer security incidents. Whenever a new technology arrives, it is invariably dogged by misuse like the first worm in the IBM VNET and Morris Worm that hit Internet and paralyzed it. This led to the formation of the first Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie
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Does Your Company Have A Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)?
Around 80 wallpaper apps in the Android Marketplace were found to be sending back data to remote services, according to security firm Lookout According to Lookout, a US-based security firm, more than 80 Google Android wallpaper apps were collecting mobile phone numbers and personal details, including unique subscriber numbers. Many of the apps also “dialled home” to their developers, transmitting unencrypted sensitive data back to remote servers
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Google Android apps ‘collecting personal data’
AIIM has introduced its newest Certificate program focused on best practices for adopting and implementing Microsoft (News – Alert) SharePoint 2010. The SharePoint Certificate program has been developed in partnership with Houston-based Gimmal Group, Inc., a premier Enterprise Content Management and Records Management professional services firm, in response to a growing need by organizations to learn how to apply the necessary strategies and structures to sharing and managing corporate information on the SharePoint 2010 platform. According to Bob Larrivee, director and industry advisor at AIIM, “A recent AIIM study, ’SharePoint: strategies and experiences,’ reveals that governance is sorely lacking in the majority of installations.
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AIIM Develops its SharePoint Certificate Program
Social media is emerging as a cottage industry for electronic evidence. It is now playfully referred to as an electronic “permanent record” in this era of Wikileaks. “It just makes for a beautiful exhibit, and there’s no longer any question about what was said,” says Cassandra Ferrannini, an employment law attorney with the Sacramento law firm Downey Brand.
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Social Media, Permanent Records and eDiscovery
When being sued, one of the excuses that many companies have come fall back on is known as the “IT burden” defense. The basic premise is that locating the information sought by the court puts too much of an e-discovery burden on the company’s IT resources. This defense invariably results in some uncomfortable moments for IT executives because it usually requires them to testify in court about how inept they in managing data
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The End of the ‘IT Burden’ Defense
Several years ago, I was the technical lead for a mission-critical application at a Fortune 100 insurance company. The application quoted and issued policies for the company’s largest commercial line of business, booking revenues upward of $28,000 per minute of scheduled uptime. One day, I received a request from the chief litigator to stop automatic deletion from the system.
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Bridging the Communication Gap in E-Discovery
Time and again, in jury research and in juror interviews following verdicts, contemporaneous writings by persons with the closest relationship to the litigated dispute—those who negotiated or implemented the contract, who made the employment termination decision, who engaged in price negotiations, and the like—receive dispositive weight. Internal memos, e-mails, text messages and even postings on social media have overridden percipient testimony no matter how credible.
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Litigation: E-mails, Texts, and Tweets: Killer Evidence
Intel on Tuesday announced it has developed a prototype high-speed optical data link, which is integrated onto silicon. The Silicon Photonics Link supports transfers of up to 50 gigabits of data per second, a speed Intel compared to transmitting an entire HD movie every second
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Intel Demos 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Laser Link
Taking disciplinary action against employees for objectionable postings on social media websites or for spending too much time on networking sites can pose legal pitfalls when companies don’t have set policies, yet almost half of all employers are without a policy. Charles H
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Employers Advised to Enact Social Media Policies
Amazon Web Services poster child, Eli Lilly has walked away from using the cloud computing service after failing to come to terms over legal indemnification issues. Sources close to Eli Lilly say the pharmaceutical giant was at its wits end trying to negotiate a contract with AWS that would push some accountability for network outages, security breaches and other forms of risk inherent in the cloud, to Amazon Web Services
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Eli Lilly dumps Amazon Web Services over legal struggle
News that details of 100 million Facebook users was understandably met with some panic – particularly because the data was then dumped on file-sharing service BitTorrent alongside pirated music, bulk credit card details and the odd bit of legal content. The real story was a little more curious
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How 100 million Facebook users ended up in a list on BitTorrent
In today’s electronic world, where filing cabinets of information can be copied onto a device small enough to swallow, litigators are increasingly turning to forensic investigators to help identify the data that could make or break their case. This is creating a growing industry, from specialist teams within the big four accountancy giants, to individual consultants
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What litigators need to know about the forensic investigation process
The designation reads – Business Woman, Independent Sales Consultant, Entrepreneur & Agent of the Russian Federation of the ‘Hot’ Anna Chapman. And, sure, she has a social media presence too on Facebook & LinkedIn. The reason I am writing this post is that I am excited if social media can actually prove that Anna Chapman has criminal backgrounds and let the populace know about her physical existence at this point of time.
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Can Social Media Find The Criminal ‘Anna Chapman’ ?
Stockpiles of historical backup tape stored in offsite vaults cause unnecessary risk and avoidable expense for many corporations. By implementing direct indexing, IT teams are now empowered to manage these tapes in a way not possible before
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Remediate Backup Tapes to Limit Liability & Reduce Storage Costs
Case highlights importance of clear privacy policies The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Ontario, Calif., officials did not violate a police sergeant’s right to privacy by acquiring personal text messages he sent on city-owned equipment. Meanwhile, experts connected to the case say it illustrates the need for clarity in privacy, or no-privacy, policies
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Supreme Court sides with city in Ontario v. Quon
It’s no secret that the relationship between corporate IT and legal departments isn’t as cohesive as it should be. A recent survey released by Recommind, a leader in search-powered information risk management (IRM) software, revealed that a lack of collaboration between both teams was greatly hindering e-Discovery efforts. 2009 v.
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Disconnect Between Legal and IT Getting Worse, Recommind Survey Reveals
Growing corporate use of Twitter, Facebook, and cloud-based applications are creating new e-discovery demands, but c-level awareness of risks remains scarce. Two-thirds of businesses worry about the e-discovery risks posed by social networks, but 25% say they’re not prepared, and 33% think they’re only partially prepared, to meet related e-discovery requests. Furthermore, only 9% of companies think they’re well prepared to deal with e-discovery requests for information stored in cloud-based applications
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Social Networks Pose E-Discovery Risks
Enterprise 2.0 strategies are becoming more popular among companies today, but there are serious logistical and legal challenges along with the expected benefits of using social collaboration tools. This is especially true for companies like Vanguard, a mutual fund with roughly 12,500 employees and US$1.3 trillion in assets under management, said Abha Kumar, principal in the information technology division, during a presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week
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Security, Compliance Come Before Collaboration
Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) June 15, 2010 — Precise, Inc. ( www.precise-law.com ), a trusted provider of electronic discovery solutions and trial support services, today announced the completion of an agreement whereby it has acquired LitSoft LLC , a provider of eDiscovery software as a service (SaaS) founded in 2006 in Annandale, VA. The purchase of LitSoft is a strategic addition to Precise’s rapidly expanding suite of eDiscovery solutions
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Precise, Inc. Acquires eDiscovery Software Provider LitSoft LLC
Companies Need Legal and IT Teams to Communicate More Effectively to Tackle Challenge Roughly two-thirds (62 percent) of respondents surveyed who expressed an opinion say their company is concerned about e-discovery challenges posed by online social media forums, according to a survey commissioned by the Deloitte Forensic Center.
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Two-Thirds of Respondents Are Concerned About E-Discovery Challenges Posed by Social Media
Discovery – for most, the word evokes feelings of excitement and wonder, images of Einstein or Jacques Cousteau, the voice of Leonard Nemoy or Patrick Stewart introducing a Star Trek episode. But for those who must navigate not the seas or the stars, but our tortuous civil justice system, the term conjures epic nightmares.
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America’s True Growth Industry: Legal Discovery
What’s not to like about laptops? They’re powerful, connected, portable, have great graphics and sound – and they don’t cost much more than their desktop counterparts. So it’s no surprise that laptop shipments rose by 16% in 2009
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How do you protect your data when it’s out of your hands
Fortune Magazine reported earlier this year [that] 79 percent of the United States’ best companies use at least one of the most popular social networking services on the web to interact with customers. As often happens in the corporate world, smaller companies have followed suit and started using Twitter and Facebook to expand brand visibility and expand their customer base
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Social Media, eDiscovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure