Andrew Blake

Trump Hotels notifies customers of data breach affecting 14 properties

A reservation system used by Trump Hotels has suffered a security breach affecting guests of 14 properties operated by the president's privately owned company.

July 12, 2017

Alan Futefas, Donald Trump Jr.’s attorney, previously defended Russian hacker

A lawyer representing Donald Trump Jr. in matters related to Russia's involvement in last year's White House election previously defended a Moscow cybercriminal convicted of developing malware responsible for infecting over a million computers in the U.S. and abroad.

July 11, 2017

Wiz Khalifa’s ‘See You Again’ surpasses ‘Gangnam Style’ as most-watched YouTube video

Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" has dethroned "Gangnam Style" by Psy as the most-watched video on YouTube after garnering nearly 3 billion views and counting.

July 11, 2017

Marijuana arrests nearly triple in D.C. after legalization: Report

Police arrested over 400 people last year for public marijuana consumption in D.C., a nearly-threefold increase since the District legalized recreational weed in 2015.

July 11, 2017

Nevada weighs emergency regulations to reverse imminent marijuana shortage

Nevada regulators are considering adopting emergency measures to restock the shelves of the state's recreational marijuana dispensaries as pot shops risk running out of weed hardly a week after starting retail sales.

July 11, 2017

Extradition hearing set for Karim Baratov, Canadian accused of aiding Yahoo hackers

An extradition hearing has been set in the case of Karim Baratov, a Canadian man wanted by U.S. prosecutors in relation to an international cybercrime ring implicated in hacking over a half-billion Yahoo accounts.

July 8, 2017

Pedro Aunion Monroy, acrobat, dies while performing at Madrid music festival

An acrobat fell to his death while performing at the Mad Cool music festival in Madrid on Friday moments before American rock band Green Day took the stage.

July 8, 2017

Dane Powell, Trump inauguration rioter, sentenced to 4 months in prison

The first of more than 200 protesters criminally charged with rioting during President Trump's inauguration was sentenced to four months behind bars Friday after pleading guilty to a pair of felonies.

July 8, 2017

Sheriff at heart of Ohio’s opioid epidemic bans deputies from carrying Narcan, anti-overdose drug

Drugs overdoses killed nearly 200 people last year in Butler County, Ohio, but its sheriff is standing by his decision not to let deputies carry Narcan, a life-saving drug used to revive dying opioid users.

July 8, 2017

Twitter can proceed with free speech case against DOJ, federal judge rules

A federal judge has given Twitter permission to proceed with a First Amendment lawsuit brought against the Department of Justice over restrictions limiting how tech companies can disclose details about government surveillance requests.

July 8, 2017

KKK members ‘will be armed’ at Klan rally in Charlottesville on Saturday: Report

Ku Klux Klan members are bringing guns to a Saturday afternoon rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to one of its members.

July 8, 2017

Milo Yiannopoulos sues Simon & Schuster over canceled book deal

Right-wing writer and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos filed a lawsuit seeking $10 million from Simon & Schuster on Friday for pulling the plug on plans to publish his latest book less than a month before its originally scheduled release.

July 8, 2017

Pentagon confirms plan to secure email systems with STARTTLS, industry-standard encryption

The Department of Defense said it plans to undertake an overhaul of its antiquated email system in order to implement a decade-old encryption technology designed to safeguard emails from eavesdroppers.

July 7, 2017

Alexei Navalny, opposition leader, freed by Russia; he had organized anti-Kremlin protests

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who plans to run against President Vladimir Putin in 2018, has been released from prison after spending 25 days behind bars for organizing nationwide anti-corruption rallies without Moscow's permission.

July 7, 2017

Mike Pence mocked en masse as ‘DO NOT TOUCH’ photo from NASA visit goes viral

Vice President Mike Pence broke the rules during a tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday and the internet isn't ignoring it.

July 7, 2017

James Clapper, former intel chief, rejects Trump’s claim about Russia’s role in last year’s election

Former intelligence chief James Clapper rejected President Trump's assertion Thursday that Russia wasn't the only foreign country interfering in last year's election.

July 7, 2017

DHS and FBI warn of hackers targeting U.S. nuclear plants

Hackers have for weeks been targeting computer systems associated with U.S. nuclear facilities and power plants in a bid to glean information to use in subsequent cyberattacks, according to U.S. authorities.

July 7, 2017

Florida sued for prohibiting medical marijuana patients from smoking pot in private

A Florida attorney sued the state on Thursday after its legislature passed a law prohibiting medical marijuana patients from smoking weed within their own homes.

July 6, 2017

Donald Trump’s tweet attacking CNN shatters president’s personal record for retweets

President Trump's recent tweet containing an altered video of himself assaulting CNN personified is officially his most retweeted post since joining Twitter in 2009, a company spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.

July 6, 2017

TSA failed to detect 95 percent of prohibited items at Minneapolis airport: Report

Undercover federal agents successfully snuck drugs and explosives past security screeners at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last week, according to the local Fox affiliate.

July 6, 2017