What It Now Means To Offboard An Employee In the past two years, it has fundamentally changed what it means to offboard an employee. Companies operating under a single or a dozen offices suddenly expanded to hundreds of office locations...
Digital forensics focuses on determining what activity happened or didn’t happen. This focus shouldn’t be confused if an activity that occurred or didn’t occur is relevant to a matter. In simple terms, the goal of a digital forensic investigation is...
4Discovery is looking to add an individual to our digital forensic and incident response team in Chicago. Our ideal candidate for this position will have a basic understanding of digital forensic principles, incident response methodologies, and best practices. Knowledge of...
As a show of support for one of the Midwest’s leading information security industry groups, 4Discovery LLC has announced their sponsorship of the May meeting of the Midwest Cyber Security Alliance. This month’s topic: “Are you Prepared for a Ransomware or...
Are your clients prepared for a ransomware attack? The Background Imagine this scenario…you are a police detective. Early one morning you attempt to access your department’s database as you are working on a very important investigation. When you log in...
Tax Season Creates a Spike in These Catastrophic Incidents The Background Your HR Director walks into your office: her face ashen, her voice trembling. Earlier that day, she received an email from the company CFO asking her to email all...
More Bad News…Your Loss From Phishing Fraud May Not Be Covered By Insurance Phishing scams are not new, but losses from these social engineering ploys are increasing dramatically as the fraudsters become more convincing in their techniques. Indeed, this was...
Think Halloween is scary? How about a hacker shutting down your pacemaker? The Chief Information Security Officer of the Year Award Breakfast is always a great opportunity to learn more about what is keeping elite CISOs up at night. The...
I am in the digital forensics business. That means that when something related to eMail or computer evidence is in the news, my friends and family ask me questions, like: “are Tom Brady’s destroyed “DeflateGate” text messages recoverable?”, and “could you recover...
Businesses are increasingly targeted by phone porting scams Much has been written and reported about the risk of mobile phone “Porting” and related financial scams against consumers. A 90-year-old grandfather, for example, recently had his identity stolen by a fraudulent...