In the Washington Post article, entitled “Millions of sensitive Facebook user records were left exposed on public web, security researchers say,” Post reporters Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin report that over a half billion Facebook records have been sitting exposed to any comers on an Amazon cloud-computing server. Cybersecurity implications – and lessons –keep spinning off from the social media giant’s privacy stumblings.
Topics: LegalTechnology, securityrisk, riskmanagement, datasecurity, sensativedata, risk, Unstructureddata, legal
In his an article earlier this year for Law Journal Newsletters, “’Dark Overlord’ Hack Shows Mounting Cyber Risks for Law Firms” law firm global strategy and economics writer Dan Packel reports on a law firm’s worst nightmare: potentially becoming the weak link in a global extortion plot related to the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
Topics: WindTalker, LegalTechnology, Manafort, LegalTech, cybersecurity, securityrisk, cyberattack, darklord, Mueller
Jason Tashea’s 1/10/19 article in the ABA Journal online, “How to redact a PDF and protect your clients,” further affirms the dangers of legacy software, underestimating technology risk, and mindset; yet it fails to identify current Infosecurity software solutions.
Topics: WindTalker, Differentialsharing, Manafort, LegalTech, redaction, softwaresolutions, securityrisk, riskmanagement