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A CISO Employment Contract May Mean the Difference Between Success and Jail

On May 4, 2023, U.S. District Judge William Orrick sentenced former Uber CISO and former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor Joe Sullivan to three years of probation and 200 hours of community service for ...
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Uber CISO FTC location CISA Cybersecurity Fraud Case Under Federal False Claims Act

Prosecutors Argue for 15 Months in Jail for Uber CISO

In a sentencing memorandum filed with a San Francisco federal court on April 27, 2023, prosecutors argued that Joe Sullivan—the former CISO of Uber and a former federal computer crimes prosecutor himself ...
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Former Uber CISO’s Conviction Affirmed by Trial Court

On January 11, 2023, presiding United States District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco denied the motion of Joe Sullivan, the former CISO of Uber, for a judgment of acquittal. The conviction ...
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The Uber/Sullivan Conviction is NOT About Data Breaches

The Uber/Sullivan Conviction is NOT About Data Breaches

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Earlier this month, former Uber CISO (and former federal cybercrime prosecutor) Joe Sullivan was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco for concealing information related to a data breach at the ...
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Uber Breach Guilty Verdict, Mandatory Password Expiration, Fake Executive Profiles on LinkedIn

Uber Breach Guilty Verdict, Mandatory Password Expiration, Fake Executive Profiles on LinkedIn

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password ...
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Uber CISO Verdict: It’s the Cover-Up

Security circles are all aflutter regarding the guilty verdict of Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Uber, on charges of obstructing justice and actively hiding a felony. You can read the Washington Post‘s ...
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Uber ex-CISO Charged ‘Obstruction and Misprision,’ say DoJ/FBI

Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former security honcho, stands accused of obstructing justice and covering up a crime ...
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