Ride the Lightning

Jan 26, 2021

Website Publishes Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Assault Videos

Wired reported on January 20 that, when hackers recently exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing

Jan 25, 2021

Ten Things Law Firms Can Do to Prevent Being Blown Up by Ransomware

On January 24, Security Boulevard had a good post about winning the war against ransomware. Not that there is anything

Jan 21, 2021

Coming Soon: Drone with AI-Powered Cybersecurity Deployed

Help Net Security reported on January 19 that SparkCognition and SkyGrid announced a new collaboration to deploy AI-powered cybersecurity directly

Jan 19, 2021

Lawyers: Be Careful When Responding to Negative Reviews

Negative reviews online drive lawyers crazy. I know this because they call or write to ask me how to get

Jan 14, 2021

White House Establishes National Artificial Intelligence Office

The Hill reported on January 12th that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has announced the

Jan 13, 2021

Trump’s Concession Video was NOT a Deepfake

Reuters reported on January 11 that "social media users have been sharing a post that claims a video in which

Jan 12, 2021

Assault on the Capitol: Stolen Computers Are Not a Major Concern

Assault on the Capitol: Stolen Computers Are Not a Major Concern TechCrunch reported on January 8 that the theft of

Jan 11, 2021

SolarWinds Hack Compromises U.S. Electronic Court Filings

Bloomberg reported on January 6 that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has said that the U.S. federal judiciary's

Jan 07, 2021

Headline News: Legal Research Competitors Fastcase and Casemaker Merge

On January 5, Bob Ambrogi reported in his LawSites blog the extraordinary (to me) news that longtime competitors in the

Jan 06, 2021

Attacks on Healthcare Organizations Rise by 45% Since November

Cybersecurity firm Check Point reported in its January 5 blog post that in the two months since November 1, 2020,

Jan 05, 2021

Law Firm Concludes Five-Week Zoom Trial with $158M Verdict

It is no surprise that Zoom itself had a blog post about the trial referenced above as well as a

Jan 04, 2021

What’s on the Horizon for Law Firms in 2021?

Thank heavens the calendar page has turned. We have many challenges ahead but good riddance to 2020. It really was