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Sullivan received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Fairfield University in 1990, where he was class valedictorian. He received an Master of Arts in Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1996.
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Sullivan is an independent journalist at BobSullivan.net and an author Formerly, he was senior writer, technology correspondent and author of the popular blog, The Red Tape Chronicles, at Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com, where he focused on technology crime and consumer fraud. He also regularly appears on air on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, Consumer News and Business Channel"s On the Money, National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, the Today show, and various local National Broadcasting Company affiliates.
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 Federal Bureau of Investigation 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.
He received the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab CyberSecurity Journalism Award in 2003 for his online cybersecurity reporting.
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Sullivan is the author of two New York Times Best Sellers entitled Stop Getting Ripped Office and Gotcha Capitalism.
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