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When hackers teamed up with the Pentagon to defend the internet
When hackers teamed up with the Pentagon to defend the internet
By Joseph Menn
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Shellphish has been working HARD this summer! Student and faculty researchers from the ASU Global Security Initiative / School of Computing and…
Shellphish has been working HARD this summer! Student and faculty researchers from the ASU Global Security Initiative / School of Computing and…
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Here’s a Post Reports podcast I did on the CrowdStrike fiasco. https://lnkd.in/gzV67cYC
Here’s a Post Reports podcast I did on the CrowdStrike fiasco. https://lnkd.in/gzV67cYC
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Thanks to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs for inviting me and my colleagues Thea D. Rozman Kendler, Laura…
Thanks to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs for inviting me and my colleagues Thea D. Rozman Kendler, Laura…
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Experience & Education
Publications
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Rising India, Toxic Tech. (2024 Pulitzer finalist in international reporting)
Washington Post
The Pulitzer board named 7 of the 8 articles in the series a finalist. I co-wrote the stories on Facebook, Twitter and Apple.
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
PublicAffairs
To be published in June 2019. Cult of the Dead Cow is the story of the oldest, most respected and most famous American hacking group of all time. Its members invented the concept of hacktivism, released both the top tool for cracking passwords and the reigning technique for controlling computers from afar, and spurred development of Snowden’s anonymity tool of choice. With its origins in the earliest days of the Internet, the cDc is full of oddball characters-activists, artists, and…
To be published in June 2019. Cult of the Dead Cow is the story of the oldest, most respected and most famous American hacking group of all time. Its members invented the concept of hacktivism, released both the top tool for cracking passwords and the reigning technique for controlling computers from afar, and spurred development of Snowden’s anonymity tool of choice. With its origins in the earliest days of the Internet, the cDc is full of oddball characters-activists, artists, and musicians-who are now woven into the top ranks of the American establishment.
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Napster vs The Record Labels
Wondery
I wrote this six-part serial dramatization of the Napster saga. In its first three and a half months of availability, the episodes had been downloaded a total of 1.8 million times.
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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet
PublicAffairs
The real-life hacking thriller that brought the modern face of cybercrime to a mainstream audience and showed how it was morphing into cyberwar. Using the adventures of Barrett Lyon and Andy Crocker, “Fatal System Error” revealed new evidence of collaboration between major governments and organized criminals and was placed on the official reading list of the U.S. Strategic Command. It was named one of the ten best nonfiction works of the year by Hudson Booksellers and one of the top five…
The real-life hacking thriller that brought the modern face of cybercrime to a mainstream audience and showed how it was morphing into cyberwar. Using the adventures of Barrett Lyon and Andy Crocker, “Fatal System Error” revealed new evidence of collaboration between major governments and organized criminals and was placed on the official reading list of the U.S. Strategic Command. It was named one of the ten best nonfiction works of the year by Hudson Booksellers and one of the top five business books by 1-800-CEO-READ. Compared by the New Yorker to the novels of Stieg Larsson, “Fatal System Error” has been translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
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All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster
Crown Business
Available on Kindle for $8 as of late 2012 and as an audio book as of March 2013.
The definitive inside account of the file-sharing revolution that overthrew the music industry, All the Rave reveals the family betrayal, greed, and mismanagement that hijacked one the most fundamental innovations of the Internet era.
Named one of the three best books of 2003 by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., All the Rave had been out of print until the rights reverted to author and…Available on Kindle for $8 as of late 2012 and as an audio book as of March 2013.
The definitive inside account of the file-sharing revolution that overthrew the music industry, All the Rave reveals the family betrayal, greed, and mismanagement that hijacked one the most fundamental innovations of the Internet era.
Named one of the three best books of 2003 by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., All the Rave had been out of print until the rights reverted to author and veteran technology journalist Joseph Menn, who also wrote 2010's Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet.
The audiobook includes an interview with the author conducted by Susie Bright.
"The book, by Joseph Menn, provides a well-documented history of one of the most celebrated collapses of the Internet. But it goes far deeper, giving an inside account of the creation of Napster, the battle for its control and the maneuvering by big Silicon Valley names to try to turn music piracy into gold." (The New York Times)
"That rare business book that nicely avoids either hatchet job or hagiography." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"An admirable piece of reporting, of interest to both friends and foes of the movement Napster helped to create." (The Washington Post)
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Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time
NPR Fresh Air
An interview with Joe and myself on Fresh Air.
Honors & Awards
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Honorable Mention, Society of Publishers in Asia
Society of Publishers in Asia
Our India series won second place for excellence in technology reporting in the Asian equivalent to the Pulitzers.
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Pulitzer Prize co-finalist, international reporting
Columbia University
Our eight-part series at the Post, "Rising India, Toxic Tech," was among the year's three international reporting finalists for the top prize in American journalism. I co-wrote three of the eight.
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Citation, best international coverage by a U.S. publication in 2023 (Hal Boyle Award runner-up)
Overseas Press Club
Gerry Shih, I and colleagues were honored for our series in The Washington Post, "Rising India, Toxic Tech." Links to free versions of three of the stories are here: wapo.st/3vzKkfH wapo.st/4afoIo7 wapo.st/4ad0I4J
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Sanctioned by Russia and permanently barred from the country
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
I and three colleagues at The Post were cited for reporting including articles about Russia's attacks against Ukraine. https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1938555/
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10 best nonfiction books of the year
Hudson Booksellers
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World was named one of the best 10 nonfiction works of 2019 by Hudson Booksellers.
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Gerald Loeb Awards finalist, breaking news
UCLA Anderson School of Management
I was named as a finalist for my exclusive report that Yahoo had scanned all of its users' mail for a digital identifier, complying with a secret order form the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Best in Business, Breaking News
Society of American Business Editors & Writers
I was given the top prize for breaking news by the main group of U.S. business journalists for my story revealing that Yahoo had secretly scanned all its users' email for a digital identifier sought by U.S. intelligence.
It was my third time wining a top SABEW prize, having previously been recognized with LA Times colleagues for covering the Hollywood writers' strike and with a Bloomberg colleague for reporting on the landmark tobacco litigation settlement with the states. -
Top Cyber Security Journalist Award
SANS Institute
Both times that the faculty at the SANS Institute have asked the world's security journalists to vote on the best in their field, in 2012 and 2014, I was honored to be included.
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10 best nonfiction books of the year
Hudson Booksellers
The major bookstore chain Hudson Booksellers called Fatal System Error one of the best 10 nonfiction books of 2010.
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Gerald Loeb Awards finalist, beat reporting
UCLA Anderson School of Management
I was part of a small team at the LA Times recognized for coverage of the Hollywood writers' strike.
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Finalist, book of the year
Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc.
All the Rave was named one of three finalists for best book of 2003 by the main investigative journalists' group in the U.S.
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Gerald Loeb Awards finalist, deadline writing
UCLA Anderson School of Management
I was part of a small LA Times team recognized for coverage of the Microsoft antitrust settlement.
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#CrowdStrike blames billion-dollar Windows fiasco on testing bug. Others blame a software licensing regime with no accountability. Free version of…
#CrowdStrike blames billion-dollar Windows fiasco on testing bug. Others blame a software licensing regime with no accountability. Free version of…
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If you are a security company that accidentally hired a North Korean hacker, this is a good week to disclose it. https://lnkd.in/gncZu8SC
If you are a security company that accidentally hired a North Korean hacker, this is a good week to disclose it. https://lnkd.in/gncZu8SC
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Trying to beat all the BlackHat announcements to share some big news! I had a wonderful time at Sophos and worked with truly excellent people, but…
Trying to beat all the BlackHat announcements to share some big news! I had a wonderful time at Sophos and worked with truly excellent people, but…
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Adversaries continue to leverage Fridays events to target organizations, in our latest blog post we identify a Word document containing macros that…
Adversaries continue to leverage Fridays events to target organizations, in our latest blog post we identify a Word document containing macros that…
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This is pretty nifty. I’m sure there are many ways to solve this problem and I’m sure someone will say they have a better idea, but someone deserves…
This is pretty nifty. I’m sure there are many ways to solve this problem and I’m sure someone will say they have a better idea, but someone deserves…
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Blue skies and ready for my first ever Command Pilot mission for Angel Flight West, flying a cancer patient back home to Oregon. 👨✈️
Blue skies and ready for my first ever Command Pilot mission for Angel Flight West, flying a cancer patient back home to Oregon. 👨✈️
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CrowdStrike is an incredibly well run company but the massive outage highlights the risk and complexity of traditional approaches to runtime security…
CrowdStrike is an incredibly well run company but the massive outage highlights the risk and complexity of traditional approaches to runtime security…
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🚀🌟 Join us in welcoming Joel Wallenstrom as AppOmni's General Manager. His extensive experience and vision perfectly aligns with our mission to…
🚀🌟 Join us in welcoming Joel Wallenstrom as AppOmni's General Manager. His extensive experience and vision perfectly aligns with our mission to…
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