Category «E-Mail»

Group of legal tech experts discuss whether email is broken

Is Email Broken? Law Technology Today November 30, 2017 – “Ways to communicate now with clients and collegues have grown tremendously since the days of just using the telephone, faxing a letter and even Emailing. If Email no longer gets the job done, what are our alternatives? Our Panelists Dennis Kennedy (DK), Steve Embry (SE), William Goren (WG), …

Subjects: E-Mail, Knowledge Management, Marketing

S.177 – Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015

“Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015 – Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring commercial entities, nonprofit and for-profit corporations, estates, trusts, cooperatives, and other specified entities that own or possess data containing personal information (covered entities), or that contract to have a third-party maintain or process such data for …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Legislation

Google Study Says Phishing Attacks Are the Biggest Threats to Web Users

DeepDotWeb: “A study by Google discovered that phishing attacks through fake emails were as effective as compared to data breaches that exposed usernames and passwords. Cyber criminals or cyber groups manage to steal over 25,000 valid sets of web credentials for Gmail accounts every week, painting a picture of the extent this problem has reached. …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Privacy

NIH emails reveal divisions over renewal of gun research program

Science: “For weeks, questions have swirled around the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) decision to shelve a firearms research program that was launched at the urging of former President Barack Obama’s administration after 20 children and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, late in 2012. Among other …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Legal Research

NIST – Passphrases are the new way to protect your digital world

NIST Blog, Mike Garcia: “…First, I’m going to share the takeaways from our new password guidance. Simply put: Use passphrases, not passwords. Then, I’m going to explain the absolute most important thing to know about passwords: Try not to use them at all. And if you do, don’t rely on passwords, or even passphrases, alone. …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Privacy

Business Email Scams: Protecting Your Company’s Information

From the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities, a succinct and very useful Infographic guide: “Business Email Compromise is a cyber threat targeted against businesses, both large and small, that typically involves a con artist targeting employees with access to company financial or sensitive documents. The scammers lead the employees to believe they are a …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Financial System, Government Documents, ID Theft

Report – Phish For the Future

“This report describes “Phish For The Future,” an advanced persistent spearphishing campaign targeting digital civil liberties activists at Free Press and Fight For the Future. Between July 7th and August 8th of 2017 we observed almost 70 spearphishing attempts against employees of internet freedom NGOs Fight for the Future and Free Press, all coming from …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, ID Theft, Legal Research, Privacy

FTC – Stopping Unsolicited Mail, Phone Calls, and Email

“Tired of having your mailbox crammed with unsolicited mail, including preapproved credit card applications? Fed up with getting telemarketing calls just as you’re sitting down to dinner? Fuming that your email inbox is chock-full of unsolicited advertising? The good news is that you can cut down on the number of unsolicited mailings, calls, and emails …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, Privacy

Research – Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email

As a follow up to my previous postings – What is the fate of deleted Presidential tweets? and Obama White House E-mail Archiving Plan Revealed – See Also – Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email: Technology, Privacy, and Policy Challenges by Senior Program Associate Kristen C. Ratanatharathorn on the US-UK task force currently developing …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research