From The Washington Post
By Joseph Marks
Cybersecurity experts are scratching their heads over the Secret Service investigation into the thumb drive infected with malicious software that was carried by a Chinese citizen arrested at Mar-a-Lago.
A law enforcement source tells me that investigation was conducted according to protocol: A Secret Service agent loaded the drive onto a stand-alone computer that was segregated from government networks and watched as it did what malware is supposed to do — infect files and try to steal information...
Cybersecurity experts were quick to pounce on [Secret Service agent] Ivanovich's testimony — and the seeming error.
“This is international cybersecurity warfare and they just stepped on a land mine,” Joe Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology think tank, told me. “Hopefully that laptop had very little information on it...”
I School alum Joe Hall (PhD '08) currently works as the Chief Technologist and Director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy & Technology.
