Bob Sullivan (journalist) - Career

Career

Sullivan has been reporting on computer crime, electronic financial fraud, privacy, and the Internet Underground and has written more than 100 articles on the subjects since 1996.

Sullivan was the first to report to Americans that the FBI had developed a computer program, called Magic Lantern, designed to obtain public encryption keys on November 20, 2001. He was also the first to describe the data theft at ChoicePoint, the first of what would become an avalanche of stories about stolen and lost personal information on February 18, 2005.

Sullivan won the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award in 2002 for his series of articles on online fraud. He received the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab CyberSecurity Journalism Award in 2003 for his online cybersecurity reporting.

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