FBI: Dollar Loss from Internet Crime Reaches An All-Time High

April 8th, 2008

An article in the Insurance Journal recently reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now listing the cost of Internet crimes as having increased by a staggering $40 million in just one year. This brings last years total to $240 Million dollars.
According to the FBI’s 2007 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center [...]

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Expedited Discovery Awarded for Attorneys Seeking Identity of Authors of Alleged Defamatory Remarks

April 3rd, 2008

It’s increasingly possible to determine the identify of  those involved in anonymous internet defamation or other “Cyber” misconduct. A recent case in point:  Two Yale law students, through their attorneys at Keker & Van Nest,  have been successful in their motion for expedited discovery in attempting to determine the identities (via their IP addresses) of anonymous individuals [...]

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Computer Forensics Play a Role in the Eliot Spitzer Scandal

April 3rd, 2008

In a stroke of irony even more dramatic than Eliot Spitzer’s stunning resignation and admission of affairs with prostitutes, it is almost a forgone conclusion that some of the computer forensics evidence that led the unraveling of his world will be Electronically Stored Information, (ESI). Why is this ironic? Spitzer, of course, made a career [...]

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No Sanctions Warranted for Failure to Produce “Smoking Gun” Email

March 20th, 2008

In this case involving electronic discovery and claims of misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract and conversion, the plaintiff sought sanctions for two claimed wrongs:
(1) defendants’ belated production of, and misrepresentations about, source code complete with developer comments; and
(2) defendants’ failure to produce “smoking gun” email, which was produced by another party who was the [...]

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Cisco Lawyer Outs Himself as Patent Troll Tracker

February 22nd, 2008

As you may have heard, some IP litigators have been in a frenzy over an unknown thorn in their side who identified himself on the internet as blogger “Patent Troll Tracker”. As it turns out, The Patent Troll Tracker, (AKA Rick Frenkel) is an IP lawyer at Cisco, and has made quite a name for himself shedding light on the dirty little secrets behind patent holding “shell companies” alleged litigation practices.

… Regardless of your own personal point of view, there is another side of this story that is appreciated by computer forensics and electronic discovery professionals: A growing trend in lawyers trying to determine the identity of anonymous individuals on the internet that are accused of some type of “misconduct”.

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