Robert Lemos

Robert Lemos is an award-winning freelance journalist who has covered information security, cybercrime and technology's impact on society for almost two decades. A former research engineer, he's written for Ars Technica, CNET, eWEEK, MIT Technology Review, Threatpost and ZDNet. He won the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2003 for his coverage of the Blaster worm and its impact, and the SANS Institute's Top Cybersecurity Journalists in 2010 and 2014.

Concern Rises About Cyber-Attacks Physically Damaging Industries

In March, U.S. agencies warned that Russia government actors were targeting U.S. critical infrastructure in widespread attacks aimed at securing a foothold in the most sensitive networks. The attackers were...

Seven Ways Technology Helps Business, Government to Learn About You

The gathering of records on more than 50 million Facebook users has underscored the dangers of online data mining, and the claims of the company that collected the information,...

How DDoS Attacks Techniques Have Evolved Over Past 20 Years

This year marked a major milestone for distributed denial-of-service attacks, when—not just one, but two—attacks crossed the 1 Tbps bandwidth threshold. In late February, attacks on the Github software-collaboration service...

Five New Ways to Prove It’s Really You Logging into Personal Accounts

Proving you are "you" has always been tricky. In the past, when personal information was not generally put online, asking a few personal questions was enough. Where did you...

Top Five Ways Security Vulnerabilities Hide in Your IT Systems

Despite the known risks of software vulnerabilities, most companies have unpatched security flaws in their infrastructure. In its 2017 State of Software Security report, software testing firm Veracode found that...

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