It is often a frustration to some, and possibly a challenge to others, that local laws and investigative techniques are consistently one, or in some cases many, steps behind those upon whom they are focused. In what appears to be a never-ending game of cat and mouse, we regularly witness clever, albeit unscrupulous, individuals finding ingenious [...]

An erstwhile Australian entrepreneur, who owned nightclubs, drove luxury cars, had his own cruising yacht and more than enough mansions and other property, has been arrested in Las Vegas. Appearing in a US Federal Court, he was charged with running a $US540 million money-laundering scam. That’s a lot to achieve by the age of 27, [...]

Australian TV viewers were entertained on April 12 to the strange tale of two accidental bank robbers. They never actually planned to rob a bank but before they knew it, that’s exactly what they found themselves doing. Now that’s really stupid, you say to yourself. But how sure are you that that’s not what some [...]

So constant are reports that bombard us of cyber attacks, Ponzi schemes, brazen employee fraud and crippling data theft, that many business managers view their offices as little different to a car-wash spraying threats left, right and centre. Within this maelstrom of high-pressure jets, awareness of the dangers that corporate espionage can pose dissipates, i […]

When Bernie Madoff’s massive fraud hit the headlines it was often said that it could ever only happen in New York. Well, on a per capita basis, New Zealand – a magical place, known as The Land of the Long White Cloud – is providing stiff competition. It might be as far away from the [...]

Yes, it can. And probably before you have a clue about the fate that awaits you. It happens in a number of ways. But first, think how huge the global pool of networkers is, spanning well-known sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and many others. The latest US data shows Facebook surging ahead, with its overall [...]

If you’re into robbery and you take the money, at least you have the hot feel of cash in hand. But if you’re a true professional you’ll go for the bank’s intellectual property, its customer details plus their spending and investment habits, and any other data with high value in the business world. Now that’s [...]

The global financial crisis has thrown up so many examples of fraud and financial mismanagement on such a mammoth scale that cases like Enron pale into relative insignificance. Fallout from the GFC has impacted heavily on those who value integrity in business, with their state of confusion equalling the carnage wrought by the crisis itself. [...]

You couldn’t help but feel for 61-year-old James Sikes as the TV news featured his runaway Toyota Prius on a wild ride along a Californian freeway. Who would want to be in his shoes as he pushed the brake pedal flat to the floor to no avail? The car just kept accelerating, reaching speeds of [...]

Companies of all sizes are increasingly using sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to advertise their services and products, to communicate with customers, and even to recruit new employees. Most businesses, however, remain unaware of the dangers that lurk in this rapidly expanding arena. Phishing scams are but one example of this, where devious ploys [ […]

Date: Wednesday May 23, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT (60 minutes) Aaron Crews, e-Discovery Counsel at Littler; Martha Dawson, Partner at K&L Gates; Joshua Gilliland of the Bowtie Law Blog; and Gina Sansone, Manager of Litigation Support and e-Discovery attorney at Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider (AVH) will discuss: A state-level predictive coding or […]

Craig Ball’s paper, E-Discovery: A Special Master’s Perspective, acquaints readers with some of the circumstances lending themselves to appointment of a master, the advantages of using a master and the mechanics of appointment. The paper also includes tips on working with special masters, in particular eight questions litigants are expected to be able to ans […]

Date: Wednesday April 25, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT (60 minutes) Craig will discuss the growing trend of using special masters in e-discovery, the circumstances that lend themselves to the appointment of a master and the advantages of using a special master. He will also share tips on working with special masters, including a discussion of what que […]

by Wallis Hampton, Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates Elizabeth Russo, White Collar Crime Associate, Skadden, Arps Canaan Himmelbaum, Account Executive, Fios Inc. Recent years have seen dramatic shifts in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s approach to enforcement actions with respect to e-discovery. Beginning w […]

Exactly one year after the complaint was first filed in a gender discrimination suit, an important, brand new e-discovery opinion is out. Judge Peck has issued the first opinion approving use of computer-assisted review in Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe, No. 11 Civ. 1279 (ALC) (AJP) (S.D.N.Y. Feb 24, 2012). The discovery order has been receiving a great d […]

This week's edition of Case Leads features updates to a popular network scanning tool and another application which may be useful in gaining access to encrypted documents. We also have an article detailing a recent attack against a website and a couple of papers that look at attack trends. There's news that hard drives could approach 60TB and a rep […]

Welcome to the Digital Forensic Case Leads. A Volume Shadow Copies toolset updated with a new great ability, Malware binary files analysis became easier, Media and Mobile forensics analysis,is your cloud data secure? Data killers, a man stab his computer!? Mobile phones cyberthieves, i-robot film in reality? All that and more, this week on Case LeadsIf you h […]

Welcome to Digital Forensics Case Leads. Another a busy week in digital forensics, incident response and the law. In this edition: The SANS Computer Forensics Blog was at the Forensic Expert Witness Annual Conference, and your humble reporter asked a seasoned member of the bench: What is it like for a Judge to sit on the bench and digest the testimony of a f […]

Previously Tableau had allowed thea visualization of the Wikileaks data to appear on their Tableau Public site, this was not the actual emails and documents, but merely a visualization of the data

Tableau Software‘s just-released 6.0 version may prove to be one of the company’s biggest releases and one that heightens the business intelligence competition with QlikTech, Tibco Spotfire, and Microsoft PowerPivot. Tableau previewed its latest release in my “Cool BI” class at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) World Congress in Orlando earlier this mont […]

Gartner has made four predictions for the near future of business intelligence and analytics. Below are some key predictions

A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware named Flame has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.

Broadcasters are claiming in federal lawsuits Thursday that Dish Network's DVR service, which allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaches copyright law and retransmission agreements. The suits by Fox, CBS and NBC are the broadcasters' latest legal salvos against technological innovations, as those advances bring into question whether bro […]

Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software -- with about half of those requests last month coming from Microsoft. The search and advertising giant revealed the data Thursday as it released sortable analytics on the massive number of copyright takedown requests it receives -- addi […]