This post was written by Reid Trautz: "A bit of a techno-firestorm started in late 2009 when my friends John Simek and Sharon Nelson alerted lawyers to the security flaws of the iPhone. They have warned the legal profession to be careful not to use the iPhone because if lost or stolen the phone can be quickly compromised and confidential data stolen with the right equipment.

While I respect John and Sharon immensely, I have disagreed with their analysis of our profession's Rules of Professional Conduct: I don't believe lawyers need to give up the iPhone as a business tool in order to avoid a potential breach of client confidentiality.

Now comes word via NetworkWorld and Wired of the ease by which to comprise an Android phone and steal cell phone signals..."

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Source: Reid My Blog! 2 August 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Kim Walker: "Two weeks ago my laptop was stolen.  Now that I have stopped crying...because even though I backed up all my hard work onto to flash drives... the culprit absconded with those too...most likely because the flash drives were next to the laptop. File this under "I know better!"   I lost projects that I have been working on for years, seriously I'm not exaggerating, photos, project budgets.  I can't go on because I will start crying again.  Its like when your wallet gets stolen, you want to say to the robber "here take all my money and credit cards but for the love of all things holy please leave me my driver's license and social security card!" 

Last weekend I tried to think of a way to keep all of my important information safe.  Really safe..."

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Source: Paralegal Pie, 23 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Bryan Sims: "The State Bar of Wisconsin recently published an article on metadata that I co-authored with Wisconsin Practice Management Advisor Nerino Petro. Nerino and I have spoken on this topic before on a couple of occasions. This is a topic that far too many attorneys remain in the dark about.

If you are not sure what metadata is or how to manage it, I encourage you to go read the article.

You can find it here."

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Source: The Connected Lawyer, 16 June 2010. © 2010 All Rights Reserved . Reproduced with permission of the author.

Podcast description from the site: "Often times, the legal profession can be lackadaisical when it comes to data security. On this debut podcast of Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, share the latest information on data breaches. Sharon and John look at some recent data breaches, data breach notification laws, how to prevent and respond to data breaches and how data breaches may be affected by SaaS/cloud computing.

Special thanks to our sponsor, Applied Discovery

Related Podcasts

• May 20, 2010 -- The North Carolina State Bar & Cloud Computing
• May 12, 2010 -- Exploring the Virtual Law Practice
• September 24, 2009 -- A Close Look at the Data Breach Notification Law: Chapter 93H
• September 14, 2009 -- Safeguarding Sensitive Information, Data Breaches & Preservation Issues
• April 9, 2009 -- Software as a Service" 

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 2 July 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

This post was written by Tom Mighell: "I talk to people all the time who don't want to use great password management tools like LastPass or Keepass because they're too confusing. These are the same people who like to keep passwords on Post-It notes pasted to the monitor, or note cards taped to your desk. For these friends of mine, I have found you a new solution: your Password Card. The premise is simple. Use a color printer to print out the card - it's designed to be carried in your purse or wallet (you can laminate the card if you want). The card has 9 rows of random numbers, letters (lower and upper case), and symbols, with a different color for each row. Just pick a direction - up or down, left or right, or diagonally if you can read that way - and select an 8 (or more) character password length. You can use one password for all your sites, but that's not very safe - but no worries, you've got plenty of characters on your card for dozens of passwords. For those of you who like to keep your passwords on your smartphone, there's also a mobile version of the site. Although I prefer to use an electronic password manager, the bottom line is that everyone should be doing more to create and manage better passwords. And PasswordCard certainly does that."

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Source: Inter Alia, 7 June 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Bonnie Shucha: "Metadata is a topic of increasing importance to legal practitioners in sending and receiving electronic documents. The latest issue of InsideTrack from the State Bar of Wisconsin has a good article outlining the basics of metadata and why attorneys should be concerned about it.

Part II of this article, which will appear in the July 7 issue of InsideTrack, will address proper methods of redaction."

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Source: WisBlawg, 16 June 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Greg Lambert: "I've seen a couple of articles on VaporStream's "Electronic Conversation Software". The idea is that you can send communications that look a lot like e-mail, but the communication is temporary, exists in the cloud, and resides in your computers RAM (temporary memory). Once the communication is over, it disappears and cannot be recovered, even through e-discovery methods. The product is pitched as a great resource for reducing e-mail server storage, reduce the cost of potential e-discovery litigation, and satisfy the two tenants of HIPPA requirements. I took a quick look at it this morning and found that it is more of an Instant Messaging (IM) replacement than an e-mail replacement, but that it looks to have some good uses..."

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Source: 3 Geeks & a Blog, 18 June 2010. Reproduced with permission of the authors

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Ethernet might be faster, but many workplaces use Wi-Fi to provide internet access to their employees. Wi-Fi is certainly convenient, but failing to secure your wireless network can slow your connection, and cause all types of security issues.

Security breaches

Google recently admitted that while mapping neighborhoods from Google Maps, the camera cars also captured data from unlocked Wi-Fi networks. "If they happened to be transmitting at the exact moment that the car went by, whatever they happened to be transmitting at that moment would have been picked up . . . ."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 18 May 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "...Inside Facebook has an excellent overview of many of the recent Facebook security changes/concerns/issues/problems."

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Source: Research Buzz, 12 May 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author

This post was written by John Heckman: "It turns out that all those convenient MFP (Copier, Scanner, Printer rolled into one) have a couple of serious security issues reported in Sharon Nelson's Ride the Lightning.

The first is that the hard drive of the copiers store every document that has been scanned, printed, copied or emailed....

The second security hole is that many copiers/scanners can email the resulting scan to the user..."

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Source: Does It Compute? 5 May 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.