About Me

Robert Lemos is a veteran technology journalist of more than 13 years, focusing on computer security, cybercrime, and enterprise issues. Mr. Lemos spent eight years as a staff writer at ZDNet News and as a senior staff writer at CNET News.com, which purchased ZDNet in 2000. He acted as editor-at-large for SecurityFocus, a security news and information site owned by Symantec Corp., from April 2005 to August 2009, providing daily independent journalism and investigative articles covering security incidents, malicious code, vulnerabilities and cybercrime.

Mr. Lemos' work has appeared in BusinessWeek, CNET News.com, CIO.com, MIT's Technology Review, The New York Times Online, the San Francisco Chronicle, SecurityFocus, PC Magazine, PCWorld, USA Today, Wired News, and ZDNet. He has written over 3,000 articles, covering computers, security, privacy, cybercrime and technology’s effect on society.

Mr. Lemos has won three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, including the national Sigma Delta Chi award for his coverage of the MSBlast, or Blaster, worm while at CNET News.com in 2003. Mr. Lemos is a graduate of Cornell University, where he got his B.S. in electrical engineering with a heavy concentration in computer science.