Mathy Vanhoef, a postdoctoral researcher at Belgian university KU Leuven, has discovered and disclosed major vulnerabilities in the WPA2 protocol that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks.

Until recently, South Dakota inmates had access to lawyers during their time in prison. Now, the lawyers are gone, replaced by a subscription to a legal search engine, run on tablet computers from a company accused of exploiting inmates.

Discovery in federal cases just got a lot faster in Illinois and Arizona. The Northern District of Illinois and District of Arizona are three months into a three year Mandatory Initial Discovery (MID) pilot project that will affect nearly all new civil cases filed in those districts.

Keyword searching is an eDiscovery workhorse. Legal teams rely on keyword searches for responsiveness, privilege and issue-based document reviews. Familiarity can breed complacency and many lawyers take searching for granted.

Lawyers have online access to available confidential information in cases where they have appeared, but task force member and Court of Appeals Judge Paul Mathias said there is no way for state courts to distinguish when an attorney, or a member of his or her staff, has accessed those records.

Microsoft is investing $1 million into a program partnership with the Legal Services Corp. and Pro Bono Net to develop web portals to access legal aid information. The funds cover the technology, implementation costs and services, which the LSC is hoping to have available by the second half of 2018.

As law firms continue to migrate toward digital practices and cybercriminals become more advanced, a local technology firm is launching a new product meant to help firms mitigate their risk for a cyberattack.

Worried about Internet companies snooping on your online browsing? You might turn to something called a virtual private network to protect your privacy. But researchers say these networks can themselves be insecure.

Technology has a particularly prominent role in eDiscovery. A basic familiarity with the sources and types of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) is foundational technological knowledge for litigators.

Remember those pesky WannaCry ransomware hackers? They're starting to shift their bitcoin around and Forbes has learned they're using a Swiss cryptocurrency exchange called ShapeShift to do it.