By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shawn Henry, the FBI’s top cyber cop up until his recent retirement, is putting his FBI skill to use in the private sector. The Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett reports that ex-FBI official Shawn Henry is joining an Irvine, Calif. upstart computer security firm called CrowdStrike Inc. The Journal reports that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The message from the FBI’s top cyber cop is that the bad guys are winning the cyber war. “We’re not winning,” Shawn Henry told the Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett. Henry, who is about to retire from the FBI, said the current methods of fending off hackers isn’t sustainable. He said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry, who had taken on a higher profile in the bureau in more recent times, has decided to retire, Jason Ryan of ABC News reports. Ryan reports that Henry will step down after 24 years of service. Henry is credited with “boosting the FBI’s computer crime…
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Shawn Henry, executive assistant director of the FBI, had some dire warnings for attendants of the International Conference on Cyber Security, in New York, the Huffington Post reported on Thursday. Criminal hackers pose risk that are “existential, meaning it could eliminate whole companies,” he said. Hackers tampering with things such as the power…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We could be headed for bigger trouble if we don’t develop a highly secure alternative Internet to fend off the ever increasing cyber threats against critical utilities and financial systems, an FBI official told the Associated Press Thursday. Shawn Henry, the FBI’s executive assistant director, told AP that critical systems are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Child prostitution continues to be a nationwide problem. With that in mind, over the past few days, the FBI along with local and state police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) concluded Operation Cross Country V, in which 69 child prostitutes were “rescued”, the FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Expect a game of musical chairs over at FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue now that the number two person John Pistole has left the agency and Timothy Murphy, the number three person, has replaced him. Nothing has been announced yet, but the rumors are circulating. Here’s one set of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 20-year-old Virginia man, who made threats against the TV show “South Park”, was arrested Wednesday on charges of providing material support to al Shabaab, a terrorist organization in Somalia with links to al Qaeda, authorities said. Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Fairfax County, Va., who according to a…
