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Case in Point 2010-07-26 05:00:11

Steven — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:11 +0000

About ‘Case in Point’ – ‘Case in Point’ is a weekly cartoon series, created by CaseCentral Corporation, that illustrates the lighter side of eDiscovery. ‘Case in Point’ also runs a contest inviting anyone from the expansive eDiscovery realm – lawyers, IT staff, judges, service providers, paralegals, writers and consultants – to submit their own humorous experience or a scenario they find particularly funny. Participants may submit cartoon ideas online at http://www.casecentral.com/caseinpoint/idea for consideration. Readers who see their idea turned into a cartoon will receive a copy of the final cartoon signed by the artist, Tom Fishburne.

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Case in Point Café - Visit http://www.cafepress.com/CaseInPoint to turn your favorite cartoon into a keepsake or gift for that special eDiscovery somebody.

About the cartoonist – CaseCentral is pleased to feature Tom Fishburne as the cartoonist behind ‘Case in Point.’ See Tom’s bio here: http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/bio.html

About CaseCentral – Case in Point is sponsored by CaseCentral. Visit www.casecentral.com to learn more about CaseCentral’s eDiscovery products and services.

Case in Point 2010-07-19 05:00:21

Steven — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:00:21 +0000

Case in Point Café - Visit http://www.cafepress.com/CaseInPoint to turn your favorite cartoon into a keepsake or gift for that special eDiscovery somebody.

About the cartoonist – CaseCentral is pleased to feature Tom Fishburne as the cartoonist behind ‘Case in Point.’ See Tom’s bio here: http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/bio.html

About CaseCentral – Case in Point is sponsored by CaseCentral. Visit www.casecentral.com to learn more about CaseCentral’s eDiscovery products and services.

Case in Point 2010-07-12 05:00:26

Steven — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:26 +0000

Case in Point Café - Visit http://www.cafepress.com/CaseInPoint to turn your favorite cartoon into a keepsake or gift for that special eDiscovery somebody.

About the cartoonist – CaseCentral is pleased to feature Tom Fishburne as the cartoonist behind ‘Case in Point.’ See Tom’s bio here: http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/bio.html

About CaseCentral – Case in Point is sponsored by CaseCentral. Visit www.casecentral.com to learn more about CaseCentral’s eDiscovery products and services.

Case in Point 2010-07-05 05:00:37

Steven — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:00:37 +0000

Case in Point Café - Visit http://www.cafepress.com/CaseInPoint to turn your favorite cartoon into a keepsake or gift for that special eDiscovery somebody.

About the cartoonist – CaseCentral is pleased to feature Tom Fishburne as the cartoonist behind ‘Case in Point.’ See Tom’s bio here: http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/bio.html

About CaseCentral – Case in Point is sponsored by CaseCentral. Visit www.casecentral.com to learn more about CaseCentral’s eDiscovery products and services.

EDRM Model Code of Conduct: Moving eDiscovery Out of the Wild, Wild West

George Socha — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:50:47 +0000

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12:00 pm

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When it comes to acceptable boundaries of ethical business practices within the eDiscovery service industry, are we still in the time of spurs, six guns and saddles?

Join us at high noon as industry experts discuss developing Model Code of Conduct guidelines and their relevance to both companies and legal technology providers.

Topics addressed will include:

The current “lawless” state of today’s eDiscovery practice
How the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Model Code of Conduct Project is seeking to tame the wild, wild west
Ideal best practices for the supervision of attorneys, non-attorneys and clients
Considerations for establishing effective working agreements based on ethical business practices
How to ethically manage information from records retention to metadata

Moderators:

George Socha, President of Socha Consulting LLC and co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) project
Tom Gelbmann, Managing Director of Gelbmann & Associates LLC and co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) project

Panelists:

Julie Grantham, General Counsel of Scarab Consulting and Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Law
Eric P. Mandel, Director of E-Discovery at Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP

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Case in Point 2010-06-28 05:00:35

Steven — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:00:35 +0000

Case in Point Café - Visit http://www.cafepress.com/CaseInPoint to turn your favorite cartoon into a keepsake or gift for that special eDiscovery somebody.

About the cartoonist – CaseCentral is pleased to feature Tom Fishburne as the cartoonist behind ‘Case in Point.’ See Tom’s bio here: http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/bio.html

About CaseCentral – Case in Point is sponsored by CaseCentral. Visit www.casecentral.com to learn more about CaseCentral’s eDiscovery products and services.

Case in Point 2010-06-21 05:00:19

Steven — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00:19 +0000

Case in Point Café - Visit http://www.cafepress.com/CaseInPoint to turn your favorite cartoon into a keepsake or gift for that special eDiscovery somebody.

About the cartoonist – CaseCentral is pleased to feature Tom Fishburne as the cartoonist behind ‘Case in Point.’ See Tom’s bio here: http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/bio.html

About CaseCentral – Case in Point is sponsored by CaseCentral. Visit www.casecentral.com to learn more about CaseCentral’s eDiscovery products and services.

FBI Investigating Breach Of iPad Customer Email Addresses On AT&T Website

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:10:41 +0000

Researchers who exposed hole say they “did the right thing,” AT&T says they acted “maliciously”

Jun 11, 2010 | 02:27 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading

The FBI has launched an investigation into the exposure of email addresses of thousands of iPad customers on an AT&T website this week.

Researchers with Goatse Security who this week revealed the weakness in the AT&T site — basically a business-logic flaw in AT&T’s app that was left available and accessible to the public — were able to get the email addresses of more than 100,000 iPad customers, including some high-profile people.

Escher Auernheimer, a security analyst with Goatse Security, said in an interview today that his firm “did the right thing” by going public about the hole in AT&T’s website.

UPDATE: AT&T sent a letter to Apple 3G iPad owners over the weekend that shed some light on AT&T’s position on the hack, according to a report in the New York Times. “On June 7 we learned that unauthorized computer ‘hackers’ maliciously exploited a function designed to make your iPad log-in process faster by pre-populating an AT&T authentication page with the email address you used to register your iPad for 3G service,” wrote Dorothy Attwood, a senior vice president and chief privacy officer at AT&T.

“The hackers deliberately went to great efforts with a random program to extract possible ICC-IDs and capture customer email addresses. They then put together a list of these emails and distributed it for their own publicity,” Atwood said.

Meanwhile, Goatse’s Auernheimer says the researchers went public with their findings via the Gawker website after AT&T fixed the flaw. They handed over the email address finds to Gawker, but stipulated that the site not publish the actual email addresses. “Our disclosure process was extremely proper and above and beyond,” Auernheimer says. “Many researchers do not wait for patches” before they disclose, he says.

“What influenced our decision was that there were so many people who were stewards of important infrastructure on the public and private list [exposed],” he says. “Someone else could have scraped this data.”

According to Auernheimer, his team got the data without a password or actual breach/intrusion. The researchers wrote a PHP script that grabbed the email addresses from the errant AT&T script. “It’s not uncommon to see this type of vulnerability,” he says.

The FBI’s involvement could be due to the high-profile iPad customers whose email addresses Goatse discovered, Auernheimer says. “We haven’t had any contact” with the FBI, however, he says.

Meanwhile, the FBI issued this statement: “The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation to address the potential cyber threat.”

Among the email addresses Goatse was able to access were that of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Air Force Col. William Eldridge, and New York Times Co. chief executive Janet Robinson, according to Gawker.

Security experts at Praetorian published the script written by Goatse. It basically grabs email addresses via the integrated circuit card identifiers that associate the iPad SIM card to a subscriber: “An e-mail address gets returned in the successful iterations (active ICCID) and parsed. There’s no hack, no infiltration, and no breach, just a really poorly designed web application that returns e-mail address when ICCID is passed to it,” Praetorian’s Daniel Kennedy blogged on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Auernheimer has taken issue with AT&T’s claims that his firm acted maliciously. He says he released a semantic integer overflow exploit for Apple Safari in March, which was later patched on Apple’s desktop Safari but has not yet been fixed for the iPad.

“This bug we crafted allows the viewer of a webpage to become a proxy (behind corporate and government firewalls!) for spamming, exploit payloads, password bruteforce attacks and other undesirables. The kicker is that this attack cannot be detected by any current IDS/IPS system,” he blogged yesterday. “We released this in March, mind you, and Apple still hasn’t got around to patching this on the iPad! I know through personal experience that the patch time for an iPad vulnerability is over two months and counting. Given that, the number of parties which probably have active iPad exploits likely numbers in the hundreds, if not the thousands. The iPad simply is not a safe platform for those that require a secure environment.”

Case in Point 2010-06-14 05:00:46

Steven — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:00:46 +0000

Case in Point Café - Visit http://www.cafepress.com/CaseInPoint to turn your favorite cartoon into a keepsake or gift for that special eDiscovery somebody.

About the cartoonist – CaseCentral is pleased to feature Tom Fishburne as the cartoonist behind ‘Case in Point.’ See Tom’s bio here: http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/bio.html

About CaseCentral – Case in Point is sponsored by CaseCentral. Visit www.casecentral.com to learn more about CaseCentral’s eDiscovery products and services.

EDRM Enron Email Data Set v2 Now Available

George Socha — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:33:37 +0000

We have started loading the EDRM Enron Email Data Set v2. The files are available at edrm.net/6354.

This set consists of Enron e-mail messages and attachments in zipped files. The files are organized by custodian. Each zipped file should contain some combination of the following (depending on availability, of course):

XML
EML with attachments
Native attachments
Text email bodies
Text email attachments

We are in the process of loading files. Please check back for updates.