From Phishing to Court Cases: How Microsoft Fights Back Against Hackers
About this episode
Selena Larson interviews Sean Farrell about Microsoft's strategies in combating cyber crime through legal means.
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Pals! Host Selena Larson is joined by Sean Farrell, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), to pull back the curtain on how major cyber crime takedowns actually happen and how Microsoft uses civil lawsuits, criminal referrals, and global partnerships to disrupt some of the most damaging cyber crime operations in the world. They discuss: What DCU does and Sean's path from FBI to AWS to MicrosoftHow civil claims like the CFAA ...
People in this episode
Host: Selena Larson
Guest: Sean Farrell
Topics covered
- cyber crime
- legal actions
- Microsoft
- Digital Crimes Unit
- cybersecurity
- criminal referrals
- civil lawsuits
Keywords
- phishing
- cyber crime takedowns
- civil lawsuits
- criminal referrals
- global partnerships
- Microsoft
- Digital Crimes Unit
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Microsoft, FBI, AWS, Digital Crimes Unit, CFAA
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