Yesterday, and only hours after the ISIS attack on Tehran, the Senate voted to invoke cloture by a vote of 91-8 to allow a vote on S.722, the Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017. News reports suggest that further…
Last week I posted on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’s opinion setting aside the $4 million fine that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed on Epsilon Electronics for shipping weapons of mass destruction (namely, subwoofers and other car…
We have followed the saga of Epsilon Electronics extensively, beginning with the posts titled The Auto Sound and the OFAC Fury Part I and Part II followed by Epsilon, Epsilon and, then, As Epsilon Lay Dying, which discussed the federal district…
Last September, I wrote about the designation by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), under the Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO) program, of Paul Davis, Pac-Net and related entities along with a number of officers, directors and employees of those…
Security researchers have indicated that they have found Kim Jong Un’s pawprints all over the code used for the WannaCry ransomware, stolen from the CIA vaults by Vladimi Putin’s BFFs at WikiLeaks. This, of course, raises the question as to whether companies…