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New York Times
Significant Percentage of Manuscripts Submitted to Scientific Journals Contain Digitally-Altered or "Downright Fraudulent" Images
Dr. Hany Farid, a 41-year-old engineer, is a minor
celebrity of a subdiscipline within computer science: digital forensics.
In a recent interview in the New York Times, Dr. Farid asserts,
"Today, in science, more and more, photographs are
the data." The Federal Office of Research Integrity has said
that in 1990, less than 3 percent of allegations of fraud they investigated
involved contested images. By 2001, that number was 26 percent.
And last year, it was 44.1 percent. Mike Rossner of The Journal
of Cell Biology estimates that 20 percent of the manuscripts he
accepts contain at least one figure that has to be remade because
of inappropriate image manipulation. He means that the images are
not accurate reflections of the original data. Rossner estimates
that "about 1 percent of the papers have some piece of image
data that is downright fraudulent." Read
the full article.
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Information Week
Morgan Stanley Pays, Big-Time, for Withholding Emails
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority this week said Morgan Stanley has to pay $12.5 million in fines to resolve charges for mishandling e-mail dated before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Morgan Stanley on numerous occasions failed to provide e-mails requested by claimants in arbitration proceedings and regulators, FINRA said. The financial company previously had stated that its e-mail servers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, resulting in the loss of e-mails archived prior to that date. Morgan Stanley presumably had lost millions of pre-9/11 e-mails, but it was later discovered that they had been restored to the company's active e-mail system using backup tapes, which were stored in another location. Read the full article.
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SC Magazine
Fired Insider Takes Down Cox Network
A Georgia man after being asked to resign from his job at Cox Communications, hacked into his former employer's network and shut down telecommunications services, including 911 numbers in major U.S. cities. William Bryant, 38, of Norcross, Ga., pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to one count of knowingly causing the transmission of information to a computer used in interstate commerce. Bryant remotely shut down portions of Cox's national telecommunications network on May 6, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Customers in Dallas, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., were left without access to 911 emergency services for hours. Read the full article.
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New Steven W. Teppler Whitepaper!
Spoliation of Digital Evidence
Because spoliation (tampering) of digital evidence is so hard to detect, and new antiforensic measures can conceivably permanently prevent detection of wrongdoing, any party alleging spoliation will likely be accused by opposing counsel of engaging in speculation unsupported by facts. Moreover, pleas will be made to the court to take no action, absent something approaching clear evidence of wrongdoing. The problem with this approach is that it fails to take into account that a well-executed digital evidence spoliation scheme will, in all likelihood, never be discovered absent a confession similar to that given in Odom v. Microsoft et al. In a litigation environment where digital evidence may well be the only evidence, the courts need to initiate additional and intensive inquiry into both control and custody of computer-generated information. Read the Whitepaper.
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Bay Area CSOs Gather
Bay Area CSO Council: eDiscovery & the Role of the CSO
You're invited to attend the 6th BACC CSO Round Table on e-Discovery and the Role of the CSO, scheduled on October 19, 2007. The event will take place at the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View, CA from 9:30am to 2:00pm. Breakfast and Lunch will be included. RSVP here.Read the full article.
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