Business Email Compromise Scam: What Is It and How To Guard Against It

The Business Email Compromise (or BEC) scam has been around for many years and seems to be enjoying a resurgence in popularity lately.  At its essence, the BEC scam involves ...

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Sharing Devices and Accounts

Sharing Devices and Accounts Unless you live alone, you probably share a device or an account with someone else in your home.  Perhaps it’s a family tablet that you and ...

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Spoliation – Case Terminating Sanctions

Spoliation – Case Terminating Sanctions Case Terminating Sanctions.  It’s the spoliation unicorn.  The rare event that counsel either dreams of or has nightmares about.  In my fifteen-plus years of working ...

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Cell Phones and Mobile Device ESI Collection

The days of limiting an ESI collection to computers, email and server data are long behind us in the world of computer forensics and e-discovery.  Chances are very good that ...

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Reflections On The OPM Data Breach

As I sit here reading my data breach notice from the United States Office of Personnel Management regarding their loss of my personal information (name, DOB, SS#), I can’t help ...

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Classic Software Tools

As I sit each day gazing into multiple computer monitors, working on various computer forensics or ediscovery projects, it occurs to me that, despite having lots of advanced forensic software ...

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