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New FBI Director will build on Comey’s cybercrime fighting efforts

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With Christopher Wray being sworn into his new position, the immediate question facing the FBI director is whether he will follow the path created by his predecessor or forge a new one by implementing drastically different initiatives. Associates of Wray who spoke to him in recent weeks say they expect him to build on many of the same priorities that James Comey was known for, including efforts to strengthen the FBI’s cybercrime fighting mission. “I think what you’ll see, and this will play out eventually in [Appropriations committees] too, is that Chris understands that [cybersecurity] is important and that it’s part of everything,” said Joe Whitley, a former senior Justice Department official. “Chris I think respects and admires a lot of what [Comey] did, especially with him building up the FBI’s Cybercrime Division. He’ll build on that.” Whitley doesn’t expect Wray to take the bureau in a drastically different direction […]

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Comey: Russians Targeted ‘Hundreds’ of Entities in Election Hacking

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Former FBI director James Comey’s testimony is a solid reminder that the Russian hacking campaign went far beyond the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta. Continue reading Comey: Russians Targeted ‘Hundreds’ of Entities in Election Hacking→

Comey: Russians Targeted ‘Hundreds’ of Entities in Election Hacking

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Former FBI director James Comey’s testimony is a solid reminder that the Russian hacking campaign went far beyond the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta. Continue reading Comey: Russians Targeted ‘Hundreds’ of Entities in Election Hacking→

Mobile-encryption markets booming, despite cops’ concerns

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The growth of ubiquitous global mobile encryption may be a bane for U.S. law enforcement — but it is a boom market that will almost quadruple in size over the next five years, according to a new projection. Currently worth $761.4 million, the mobile encryption market worldwide is set to grow at a compounded annual rate of just over 30 percent to reach $2.92 billion by 2022, according to figures from MarketsandMarkets, a research outfit in Pune, India, which provides quantified B2B research. MarketsandMarkets found that the key forces driving growing demand for mobile encryption include “the proliferation of smartphones and tablets across enterprises, the [need to meet] stringent compliance and regulatory requirements, and increased concerns for data security and privacy issues.” Growing adoption of cloud-based mobile encryption solutions will also contribute to growth. The research divides the market into four applications — full-disk encryption, file/folder encryption, communications encryption, and cloud encryption. Full-disk encryption — […]

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Trump Fires FBI Director Over Clinton Probe, Amid Russia Investigation

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President Donald Trump has abruptly fired James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was leading an investigation into alleged links between Trump and Russia.

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FBI Director: If left unchecked, Russian hackers will change vote tallies in a future U.S. election

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FBI Director James Comey predicts that if left undeterred, Russian hackers will one day attempt to change the vote tally in a U.S. election. Comey said as much during a public hearing Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Members asked Comey a series of questions concerning Russia’s ability to conduct damaging cyber-operations against both the U.S. and its allies. “In my view, [Russia is] the greatest threat of any nation on earth given their intention and capability,” Comey blankly stated. Last year, in the months preceding the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8, the Homeland Security Department discovered a series of digital attacks aimed specifically at voter registration databases used in different states. These systems are disconnected from and do not affect machines that record or tally actual votes, and there is no evidence to suggest that Russian hackers were able to alter vote counts in the 2016 election. Some officials fear, however, that […]

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How to Find a Twitter Account

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[Ashley Feinberg] is not one to say no to a challenge. When James Comey (the current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the United States of America) let slip that he has a secret Twitter and Instagram account, [Ashley] knew what she had to do.

At the beginning, [Ashley] knew only a few things: (1) Comey had recently joined twitter and (2) he only allows his “immediate relatives and one daughter’s serious boyfriend” to follow him. As such, [Ashely] deduced that “if we can find the Instagram accounts belonging to James Comey’s family, we can also find James …read more

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Paper Spells Out Tech, Legal Options for Encryption Workarounds

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Bruce Schneier and Orin Kerr have written a paper that explains the technological and legal issues associated with six encryption workarounds available to law enforcement. Continue reading Paper Spells Out Tech, Legal Options for Encryption Workarounds→