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.

How Blockchain Can Secure Supply Chains, IoT Devices, and More

On July 9, crypto-currency exchange Bancor announced that hackers had compromised one of the company's digital wallets, using the keys to steal about $23.5 million in Ethereum and other...

Five Ways Digital Assistants Pose Security Threats in Home, Office

Voice-activated digital assistants—such as the Amazon Echo that sits on your counter to Cortana on your Windows systems or Siri on Apple's iPhones—are intended to connect users to services...

Five Ways GDPR Could Limit Security Research

For months, marketing and online-services companies have dreaded the coming of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), pro-privacy rules protecting European citizens that went into force on May 25....

Processor Flaws Force Chip Producers to Make Security Top Priority

Late last year, chip makers and operating-system vendors scrambled to create critical fixes for three vulnerabilities. However, unlike most typical software flaws that are regularly patched, these vulnerabilities were in...

Five Ways Cyber-Criminals are Trying to Cash in on Crypto-Currency

Before speculation led to the skyrocketing market capitalizations of crypto-currencies over the past year, online crime was a significant driver of the commercial value of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other...

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