What I’m Sharing (weekly)

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

When E-Discovery Became a Thing: Judges Reflect on Court’s ESI Evolution Zero to Sixty in Ediscovery: The Value of On- and Off-the-Job Training Why We Need to Talk about Mental Health Regularly at the Workplace “Not conducting exit interviews on your departing employees? You should be!” A Lawyer’s Obligation to be Technologically Competent – Part…

Linked – Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock
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Linked – Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock

I highly suggest checking to make sure this advice is not part of the training you’re giving your users. It really is outdated. “Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New…

Linked – NHS could have avoided WannaCry hack with ‘basic IT security’, says report
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Linked – NHS could have avoided WannaCry hack with ‘basic IT security’, says report

This is often the case with malware – Yet the attack could the been prevented by basic IT practices, the report says. As early as 2014, the Department of Health and the Cabinet had written to NHS trusts, saying it was essential they had “robust plans” to migrate away from old software. In March and…

Linked – Equifax rival TransUnion also sends site visitors to malicious pages
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Linked – Equifax rival TransUnion also sends site visitors to malicious pages

Turns out the problem here is not that either site got hacked, but perhaps they are both using the same ad-service that was hacked: The common thread tying the affected Equifax and TransUnion pages is that both hosted fireclick.js, a JavaScript file that appears to invoke the service serving the malicious content. When called, fireclick.js…