Cecilia Kang, David McCabe and Jack Nicas report: The tech industry had it easy under President Barack Obama. Regulators brought no major charges, executives rotated in and out of the administration, and efforts to strengthen privacy laws fizzled out. The industry will have it much harder under president-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. Bipartisan support to…
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Senior U.S. cybersecurity official asked to resign amid Trump transition tumult
Christopher Bing reports: A senior U.S. cybersecurity official is leaving government after being asked to resign, an official familiar with the matter said Thursday, part of a wider thinning of President Donald Trump’s administration following Joe Biden’s election win. Bryan Ware, the Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
His Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them
Andy Greenberg reports: Set the first and last books in Cory Doctorow’s epic, three-book Little Brother cypherpunk saga side by side, and they read a bit like a creative writing master class on telling two starkly opposite stories from the same prompt. The common premise: Islamist terrorists bomb the Bay Bridge. Thousands die. The Department of Homeland responds…
A bit more on Nathan Wyatt’s sentencing and what happens next
Because I had no idea how some things work when a convicted defendant is a foreign national who is supposed to pay restitution, and because I found some elements of Nathan Wyatt’s sentence confusing, I followed up with the U.S. Department of Justice on his sentence (see my previous post about his guilty plea and…
Colorado Man Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Moderating Disputes on Darknet Marketplace AlphaBay
A follow-up to the case of Bryan Connor Herrell from the U.S. Department of Justice. Herrell’s sentencing following his guilty plea in January had been delayed due to the pandemic. A Colorado man was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Drozd to 11 years in prison. According to court documents, Bryan Connor…
Chinese National Charged with Destroying Hard Drive During FBI Investigation into the Possible Transfer of Sensitive Software to China
From the U.S. Department of Justice: A Chinese national and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles has been arrested on federal charges of destroying evidence to obstruct an FBI investigation after he was observed throwing a damaged hard drive into a dumpster outside his apartment, the Justice Department announced today. Guan Lei, 29,…