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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Icamis promoted his services in 2003 — such as bulk-domains[.]info The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. Ika ), and Salomon (a.k.a. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Trial Court Examines Stored Communications Act Applicability to Offline Mobile Phone

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a law noted for its complexity, and the second portion of it, the Stored Communications Act (SCA) is no exception. At its core, the SCA applies to communications that are in “electronic storage.” At its core, the SCA applies to communications that are in “electronic storage.”

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. Since 2003, there have been over 331,100 complaints that were handled by the Office for Civil Rights.

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New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

CILIP

Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras. Regulations governing electronic legal deposit often also prescribe how these materials can be accessed.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Autopsy is its GUI and a digital forensics platform used widely in public and private computer system investigations to boost TSK’s abilities. The Computer-Aided Investigative Environment (CAINE) is an open-source Ubuntu- and Linux-based distribution created by Italian developers for digital forensic purposes.

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eDiscovery for the Rest of Us: eDiscovery Best Practices, Part Two

eDiscovery Daily

Throughout the case, the plaintiff claimed that the evidence needed to prove the case existed in emails stored on UBS’ own computer systems. That case and the subsequent rule changes effectively forced civil litigants into a compliance mode with respect to their proper retention and management of electronically stored information (ESI).