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Chinese confess-a-kickback websites inspired by India – The China Post

June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

China’s avid Internet users are taking a leaf from India’s anti-corruption drama by opening websites so citizens can confess, sometimes in pitiless detail, to buying off officials.

 

Chinese people can be disdainful of poorer India, but some have sought inspiration from the anti-corruption anger that has swept the South Asian nation, fanned by the Internet.

Several Chinese confess-a-bribe websites, including “I Made a Bribe” (http://www.ibribery.com), have been inspired by an Indian website “I paid a bribe” (http://ipaidabribe.com), Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po newspaper reported on Monday.

“Stop seeking improper gains and promote equal competition, and return to us the dream of a fair China,” says the Chinese-language front-page of the “I Made a Bribe” website.

“Please reveal your experiences of paying bribes so embezzlement and corruption have nowhere to hide.”

India ranked worse than China in Transparency International’s 2010 survey of perceived corruption, with China 78th out 178 nations and regions counted, and India 87th.

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Chinese confess-a-kickback websites inspired by India – The China Post

June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

China’s avid Internet users are taking a leaf from India’s anti-corruption drama by opening websites so citizens can confess, sometimes in pitiless detail, to buying off officials.

 

Chinese people can be disdainful of poorer India, but some have sought inspiration from the anti-corruption anger that has swept the South Asian nation, fanned by the Internet.

Several Chinese confess-a-bribe websites, including “I Made a Bribe” (http://www.ibribery.com), have been inspired by an Indian website “I paid a bribe” (http://ipaidabribe.com), Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po newspaper reported on Monday.

“Stop seeking improper gains and promote equal competition, and return to us the dream of a fair China,” says the Chinese-language front-page of the “I Made a Bribe” website.

“Please reveal your experiences of paying bribes so embezzlement and corruption have nowhere to hide.”

India ranked worse than China in Transparency International’s 2010 survey of perceived corruption, with China 78th out 178 nations and regions counted, and India 87th.

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Recommind Patents Predictive Coding, Secures Future of e-Discovery

June 12, 2011 By 1 Comment

In March, we told you about Recommind’s new predictive coding website, which provides online resources dedicated to explaining and demonstrating Recommind’s predictive coding capabilities for expedited document review. This week, Recommind received a patent for its predictive coding process, a move that gives Recommind, its customers and its partners exclusive rights to use, host and sell systems and processes for iterative, computer-expedited document review.

The Importance of a Patent

While obtaining a patent is more about time and resources than it is about innovation, Recommind’s patent is definitely symbolic, as it marks them as an industry leader in advanced e-Discovery, compliance, records management and information governance processes and capabilities for years to come. As well, predictive coding boosts the manual process of document review by providing computerized assistance, which not only saves time, money and energy, but is exceedingly accurate at categorizing, prioritizing documents no matter how much data there is.

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Sony Hacked Again, 1 Million Passwords Exposed — InformationWeek

June 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A group of hackers behind the recent PBS website breach said they’ve now hacked into a Sony website. The hackers, who call themselves LulzSec or the Lulz Boat, said they exploited the Sony Pictures website via a SQL injection attack.

“We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users’ personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts,” the group said in a Pastebin post. “Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 ‘music codes’ and 3.5 million ‘music coupons.’”

We spoke with Chris Sather, Product Management for Network Defense at McAfee about McAfee’s next generation firewalls that analyze relationships and not protocols.

The group released 150,000 records gleaned during its attack, saying it didn’t have time to copy more. Those records also include material taken from exploited databases for Sony BMG in the Netherlands and Belgium, which contained further information about website users as well as employees.

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Google, Bing & Yahoo’s New Schema.org Creates New Standards for Web Content Markup – NYTimes.com

June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Web’s three leading search companies are announcing today a new collaboration called Schema.org, where more than 100 new types of website markup for content like movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places and more will allow search engines to better understand and present what they find on the pages that show up in search results. Yahoo announced the project first today on its Yahoo Search Blog and said it was reminiscent of all three search companies collaborating to create the sitemap concept.

This will change the way people design websites, it will change the way people do search marketing, it will change a lot of things. It should be very, very interesting.

The work is related to Yahoo’s years-old Search Monkey project, where website owners were given guidance about how to mark up websites so that their appearances in Yahoo search results were vastly improved. Gone are the days of a blue link and a few lines of text in each and every case. Some types of discovered content are better displayed in other ways, with charts, graphs or images, for example. Now that Google and Bing are teaming up with Yahoo to create a standard format, I expect that just about every site on the Web will be stopping to take a look and see how they can incorporate the new structure advocated on Schema.or

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Lulz Security claims fresh hack of 1 million Sony accounts – Jun. 2, 2011

June 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Sony just can’t catch a break from hackers. A group calling itself “Lulz Security” announced a fresh attack on Thursday, posting online snippets of data it says came from a breach earlier this week of more than 1 million user accounts on Sony’s website.

Lulz began posting messages to Twitter on Thursday about its “Sownage” campaign, and around 4:30 p.m. ET it posted links to download what it claimed was a giant cache of Sony user data.

The documents posted include names, passwords, e-mail addresses, home addresses and dates of birth for thousands of people. Lulz said it grabbed the material by exploiting a vulnerability on a Sony page advertising the company’s Ghostbusters franchise.

Lulz posted the website’s address in its data dump, and encouraged fellow hackers to “tear the living shit out of it while you can; take from them everything!”

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What Does Your Phone Know About You? More Than You Think – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic

April 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I plugged my phone into my computer and opened an application called Lantern, a forensics program for investigating iPhones and iPads. Ten minutes later, I’m staring at everything my iPhone knows about me. About 14,000 text messages, 1,350 words in my personal dictionary, 1,450 Facebook contacts, tens of thousands of locations pings, every website I’ve ever visited, what locations I’ve mapped, my emails going back a month, my photos with geolocation data attached and how many times I checked my email on March 24 or any day for that matter. Want to reconstruct a night? Lantern has a time line that combines all my communications and photos in one neat interface. While most of it is invisible during normal operations, there is a record of every single thing I’ve done with this phone, which also happens to form a pretty good record of my life.

Figuring that I’ve got nothing to hide or steal, I’d always privileged convenience over any privacy and security protocols. Not anymore. Immediately after trying out Lantern, I enabled the iPhone’s passcode and set it to erase all data on the phone after 10 failed attempts. This thing remembers more about where I’ve been and what I’ve said than I do, and I’m damn sure I don’t want it falling into anyone’s hands.

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PODCAST: The Launch of a Law Student E-Discovery Website || ESIBytes

April 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Director of Analytics and Review with JurInnov talk with the Honorable Shira Scheindlin from the Southern District of NY and the Honorable Paul Grimm from the District Court of Maryland along with two law students who accepted my challenge to build www.lawblogreview.org. Due to the efforts of Hunter McMahon and Alex Shusterman, we now have a website that enables law students who study electronic discovery and/or have technical backgrounds to develop their electronic discovery ideas, market themselves and get jobs or clerkships.  This approach helps students and law firms who may have limited resources to learn more about opportunities in the electronic discovery field.

Hunter and Alex are both law students who put forth significant time and effort designing the website, writing code and working with me to make the idea a reality. Join us on this show as we learn more about how www.lawblogreview.org can help both law students and law firms find each other and come up with ways to work together. If you like this show, forward it to your local law school or local bar association and let them know that this free resource exists. Together, this idea can help the field continue to grow by tapping into ideas from the next generation of lawyers who, by the way, are more tech savvy than today’s generation of lawyers.

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EDRM Legal Tech-NY Meet & Greet and Prize Entry « The Electronic Discovery Reference Model

January 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This year EDRM (the Electronic Discovery Reference Model) is holding an informal “Meet & Greet” at the Hilton Lobby Bar on Monday January 31, 2011 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm EST. This event is for those interested in learning more about EDRM as well as all active EDRM members. Feel free to ask about how you may participate in the current EDRM projects:

Data Set

Evergreen

IMRM (the Information Management Reference Model)

Jobs

Metrics

Model Code of Conduct

Search

Testing (new this year)

XML

For more information about EDRM, visit the website at www.edrm.net. Details on the prize drawing and the entry form can be found here on the website and will be available from Tom Gelbmann and George Socha throughout the LegalTech show.

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Federal Communications Commission to Move to the Cloud : E-Discovery Law Alert

January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In early 2011, the Federal Communications Commission will launch a new, updated website and become the first major federal agency to utilize cloud computing technology to completely support its principal web presence. By moving to cloud technology, the FCC hopes to give a boost to this increasingly popular technology and to improve the FCC’s technology platform. In announcing its move to cloud computing, the FCC’s Managing Director stated, “given that we oversee an industry that should lead this country in innovation, we want to lead the government in the things we do every day as well.” Terremark will manage the FCC’s transition to cloud computing.

The FCC’s move is also designed to motivate other federal agencies to embrace cloud computing. White House Technology Advisors have publicly endorsed and pushed for wider use of cloud computing technology to reduce costs and encourage utilization of current, more efficient and productive software and technology. The FCC’s wholesale move to cloud computing follows a decision by the U.S. General Services Administration to move its e-mail system to Google’s cloud-based applications. NASA is also exploring ways it can employ cloud computing technology.

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