May 16
Days before Facebook’s initial public offering, a survey of the general population gives a sobering view of what Facebook needs to justify its market value. The poll was sponsored by the Associated Press and CNBC and conducted by GfK Roper between May 3rd and 7th of 2012. It was a random phone survey of 1004 adults …
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Apr 27
Google’s recent announcement that they were beginning their own Cloud Storage service called Google Drive triggered a storm of warnings from privacy advocates regarding the rights that Google was asserting for itself. The worry was that by simply storing the file on Google Cloud, authors would be turning over full intellectual property rights to Google. …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/04/cloud-storage-terms-of-service-compared/
Mar 11
A recent article in Fraud Magazine, “Mayflower moved millions out of the government’s pocket” by Robert Blair, highlights the importance of continuous auditing and integrated systems. In this case, a team of auditors were tasked with auditing payments made on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense (“DOD”). The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (“DFAS”), …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/03/mayflower-caught-pick-pocketing-the-u-s-government/
Feb 15
On January 20th, the FBI seized and shut down the cloud-storage site megaupload.com and in a coordinated raid in New Zealand arrested the company founder and other key personnel. A Scene Out of a James Bond Film If defendants have no other means to pay their legal bills, they can probably get quite a Hollywood …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/02/implications-of-the-megaupload-megashutdown/
Jan 20
Microsoft has announced that the server version of Windows 8 will include a new file system called the Resilient File System (ReFS). The ReFS attempts to stay ahead of the curve of the extremely large data storage systems needed for cloud services. Currently all versions of Windows use NTFS, a generally well regarded system that has enjoyed a …
Permanent link to this article: http://betweenthenumbers.net/2012/01/the-forensic-implications-of-microsofts-new-file-system/
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