Everyone has experienced that creepy feeling of seeing an ad pop up on their Facebook feed of something they’d just been googling the day before or felt paranoid that Alexa is listening when she chimes in all of a sudden...
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...
“Sorry…You Are Locked Out of Your Own Data” Well, it happened again today. We had to call a client and advise them that it will be nearly impossible, or at least very expensive to perform a forensic exam of one...
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...
Engineer’s Guilty Plea for Deleting Text Messages Stands Out in a Series of Not Guilty Findings In the months following the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, 52 criminal counts were filed against 5 men that prosecutors believed were...
When individual privacy rights and societal good collide Does a dead terrorist’s right to privacy trump our rights to exist in a safe world? Lofty philosophical question indeed….but not quite as simple as it sounds. Let’s put the moral debate...
Elite Group of Industry Experts Offer Incident Response Best Practices As reported last week, 4Discovery was honored to sponsor the Annual Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law (JITPL) Symposium at the John Marshall School on Friday, April 10. The...
Annual Event Will Focus on Data Breach Issues, BYOD, Social Media in the Law, and More. 4Discovery is pleased to be one of the sponsors of this year’s JITPL Symposium at the John Marshall Law School on April 10, 2015....
Sikorski Offers Data Privacy Tips in Light of Recent Rash of Breaches Target, Home Depot, Staples, and JP Morgan Chase. The list of companies falling victim to massive data breaches continues to grow at an alarming rate, and consumers are...
Computer Forensics Firms Are Helping Attorneys Preserve and Produce This Increasingly Critical ESI The Scenario The Tweet goes out… chip maker Audience is “being investigated by the DOJ on a rumored fraud.” The result? The shares of Audience plunge over...