DEF CON Hacking Conference: How Safe Is Your Information? | CMS Wire
Wonder how your company would hold up against a team of hackers? At this year’s DEF CON Hacking Conference, held last month, there were some interesting surprises. Give them 25 Minutes, Your Employees will Offer Valuable Company Information The conference, which brings together accomplished social engineering hackers, hosts a contest where hackers target 17 major corporations over the course of... [Read more of this post]
Lost Hard Drives in the Mail: An e-Discovery Nightmare | eDiscovery Journal
The facts sound like a typical e-Discovery case, but quickly you feel very sick. Two employees were accused of misappropriation of trade secrets. A Federal lawsuit was filed in Florida. As one can guess, electronically stored information would be key evidence in the lawsuit. Dana Ltd. v. Am. Axle & Mfg. Holdings, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88474 (W.D. Mich. Aug. 26, 2010). The Plaintiffs retained... [Read more of this post]
Secret EU Asset Freezes May Saddle Banks With Costs, Lawsuits, Lawyers Say – Bloomberg
European Union banks may face new costs and liabilities next year under a law allowing claimants to freeze debtors’ assets in the bloc with court orders from any EU jurisdiction, lawyers say. The European Commission wants the proposal in place as soon as March, allowing judges to grant cross-border account freezes in secret and apply them to banks in other EU nations before a debtor is aware of... [Read more of this post]
ZYLAB: 88% of FTSE 100 Companies at Risk of Litigation, warns ZyLAB | TradingMarkets.com
88% of the FTSE 100 are at risk of litigation due to their susceptibility to a number of risk factors, including a history of litigation, operating in litigation-heavy areas, and being directly consumer-facing, according to research by ZyLAB (www.zylab.co.uk), a leading provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, with almost a quarter (24%) found to be aEUR~high riskaEUR(TM) across... [Read more of this post]
Getting Back to Sleep When Work Is on Your Mind | Legal Intelligencer
“If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune.” — Griff Niblack In my law practice, I often began morning instructions to my staff with, “In the middle of the night, I remembered that we need to … .” One day, my paralegal responded, “Don’t you ever sleep through the night?” Taken aback,... [Read more of this post]