Facebook and Internet Privacy
Facebook recently announced several partnerships with some important online and digital media companies. Facebook is trying to figure out a way to leverage all the data they’ve collected about you and the relationships you have with others. They’re calling it “Instant Personalization” and not “Selling Your Information” because one sounds better than the other. “Instant [...]
McAfee Update causes problems with Windows XP SP3
Earlier today, McAfee released an update for their antivirus software. If you were using their antivirus product and updated using this update, I’m so sorry. Basically, this update (called DAT 5958) marked svchost.exe, an executable file used by Windows XP, as a threat. When a good file is labeled as a virus or some kind [...]
Computer Forensics and Social Networking Sites
SANS Computer Forensics Blog has a post about some interesting data that can be gleaned from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. This data will be more and more frequently targeted by law enforcement due to users’ lack of awareness regarding the privacy of their own data. One public Facebook page, for example, can [...]
Data Recovery Services
If you’re having problems with a hard drive and are unable to access your data, you might consider a data recovery service to help you track down those important pictures or documents. Hard drive failure is not a fun problem to have, take it from me. You might wonder about what exactly goes on at [...]
Email communication with lawyer via company-owned computer protected by attorney-client privilege
A court in New Jersey recently ruled that certain communications from a personal email account accessed through a work-issued computer are protected by attorney-client privilege. Computer forensics professionals searched the hard drive and were able to recover some of the emails from the plaintiff’s Yahoo! account. While the company in question (the defendant) had a [...]