Welcome to Black Hat 2008
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- Created on Wednesday, 06 August 2008 17:14
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We've successfully registered and have a full day ahead of us. We'll be attending the best of the great selection of presentations available at this year's Black Hat 2008 Briefings in Las Vegas. We'll then be writing a series articles about the latest and most interesting items for Law.com. Today we are scheduled to attend presentations on:
Black Hat 2008 - Day One
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- Created on Thursday, 07 August 2008 17:09
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The opening day of Black Hat 2008 was a mix of highs and lows that makes this annual technology conference so much fun to attend. The Bad Sushi phishing presentation by Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios lived up to its name. Together they effectively demonstrated just how simple it is for a phisher to get started in the identity theft business and the variety of "phisher-on-phisher" crime that occurs in the "phishing ecosystem".
The Final Day of Black Hat 2008
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- Created on Friday, 08 August 2008 17:08
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The final day of Black Hat 2008 was a mixed bag of presentations from vendor fluff to overly technical slide shows that NASA scientists will be studying for years to come. Social engineering and a variety of non-hacking technical tricks were the highlights of the day.
Rule 502: Are You Privy to What's Privileged?
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- Created on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 17:05
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As the amount of ESI (electronically stored information) continues to grow, the amount of data that needs to be reviewed in any E-Discovery project continues to grow with it. This growth increases both the time and cost to the point of making a thorough review very difficult. This not only causes problems with reviewing relevant data but also any data that may prove relevant but is protected by an attorney-client privilege or work-product protection. The monumental amount of information that must be sorted through to prevent the accidental disclosure of any privileged information has certainly caused some unintentional release of protected knowledge to opposing counsel. Not only is this an obvious concern for whatever is accidently disclosed, it can also be seen as a waiver to any other communications that have the same subject matter.
E-Discovery Reviewer Power Tools Volume I
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- Created on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 17:00
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Disclaimer: We are in no way affiliated with the owners or creators of the tool(s) described below; it's just something we've used regularly that's saved us from many hours of lost time and frustration.
Have you ever had a responsive file that you couldn't open because you didn't have the correct native viewer? Have you ever had a file that you couldn't open because the file was damaged or corrupted? If you are responsible for reviewing electronic evidence for your firm than you can probably answer yes to both of these questions. Perhaps your "smoking gun" is hiding in one the files that you cannot view. So what do you do?















