Andrew Blake

Czech court upholds extradition of Yevgeniy Nikulin, Russian man wanted in U.S. over LinkedIn hack

A Russian man arrested in Prague last year in connection with allegedly hacking LinkedIn and other American internet companies may be extradited to the United States to face related charges, a Czech court agreed Friday.

November 24, 2017

Uber under investigation in several states over newly disclosed data breach

Several states are investigating Uber over the recently disclosed data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 57 million ride share users.

November 23, 2017

Texas resident charged with hacking campaign targeting Los Angeles County Superior Court employees

A Texas resident has been arrested and charged in connection with allegedly trying to hack into the email accounts of hundreds of Los Angeles County Superior Court employees, the district attorney's office announced Tuesday.

November 22, 2017

University of Michigan advances plans to host white nationalist Richard Spencer

The University of Michigan is moving forward with plans to potentially host an event featuring white nationalist Richard Spencer after facing legal pressure from his booking agent to let them speak on campus.

November 22, 2017

Uber concedes data breach affecting 57 million ride share users

Uber endured a data breach that allowed hackers to steal the personal information of more than 57 million users, the ride share company's chief executive acknowledged more than a year later Tuesday.

November 22, 2017

Richard Spencer’s white nationalist conference kicked out of Maryland events venue

Richard Spencer and a group of about 100 fellow white nationalists were ejected from a Maryland winery and events venue over the weekend after its owners realized they were unwittingly hosting his National Policy Institute's annual conference.

November 21, 2017

Apple served with search warrants for Texas church shooter’s iPhone, iCloud account

Apple has been asked to turn over nearly two years' worth of iCloud data associated with deceased Texas church shooter Devin Patrick Kelley as investigators probing the massacre continue to comb for clues.

November 21, 2017

Michigan poised to vote on legalizing marijuana in 2018

Michigan residents will likely vote on legalizing recreational marijuana in 2018 after advocates submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot next November.

November 21, 2017

Cyberattack on Sacramento Regional Transit deletes computer files, spurs outages

A cyberattack suffered by the Sacramento Regional Transit over the weekend erased millions of files from its computers and curbed operations within California's capital city.

November 21, 2017

Democrats ready recount efforts in Virginia House of Delegates races: Report

Democrats in the Commonwealth of Virginia are preparing to request recounts in at least three House of Delegates contests where Republican candidates won by razor-thin margins, potentially putting a new party in control of the state's GOP-run legislature.

November 18, 2017

Pentagon warned of Kaspersky products 13 years before government-wide ban: Report

The Pentagon's intelligence agency flagged Russian software company Kaspersky Lab as a potential threat as far back as 2004, thirteen years before the Department of Homeland Security banned the government from using its products, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

November 18, 2017

Greg Gianforte, Montana congressman, misled authorities after assaulting reporter: Police

Rep. Greg Gianforte, Montana Republican, lied to authorities in the aftermath of assaulting a reporter for The Guardian earlier this year and accused the "liberal media" of "trying to create a story," according to police files released Friday.

November 18, 2017

University of Michigan faces imminent lawsuit over Richard Spencer speaking event: Attorney

The University of Michigan will be sued in federal court next week unless it lets white nationalist Richard Spencer speak on campus, an attorney for his booking agent said Friday.

November 18, 2017

NYC prosecutors spent ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ hacking lawfully seized cellphones: Report

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars hiring professionals hackers to break into lawfully seized smartphones in order to obtain data from mobile devices protected by purportedly impenetrable digital encryption, according to a new report.

November 18, 2017

Malcolm Young, AC/DC co-founder, dead at 64

Malcolm Young, a co-founding member and the longtime rhythm guitarist for Australian rock band AC/DC, died Saturday at the age of 64, his family said in a statement.

November 18, 2017

Sergey Kislyak, former Russian ambassador, says list of Trump contacts is too long to discuss

Sergey Kislyak, Russia's former ambassador to the United States, said it would take him over 20 minutes to list every discussion he's had with people close to President Trump.

November 18, 2017

California regulators issue recreational marijuana rules with weeks to go until legalization

California regulators have issued temporary rules governing the state's voter-approved recreational marijuana marketplace in anticipation of retail weed sales becoming legal in less than two months.

November 17, 2017

Ronald Wheeler, alleged AlphaBay spokesman, charged with device fraud over dark-web marketplace

Federal prosecutors have charged an Illinois man accused of acting as the spokesman for AlphaBay, a dark-web marketplace that facilitated hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drug deals and other illegal transactions prior to being seized by authorities earlier this year.

November 16, 2017

Twitter strips blue verification badges from racists amid authentication policy overhaul

Twitter has released a new set of rules governing how it goes about awarding its blue "verified" badges to users and has begun stripping the accounts that violate its guidelines after coming under fire last week for giving one to Jason Kessler, the white nationalist who organized the infamous "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

November 16, 2017

IRS is building a safe to protect Donald Trump’s tax returns: Report

The Internal Revenue Service is installing a safe to protect President Trump's widely sought tax returns, the outgoing IRS commissioner said in a recent interview.

November 16, 2017