Robert Lemos

The SPJ Northern California chapter bestowed its Excellence in Journalism award for Online Depth Reporting to CNET News.com’s Digital Agenda: Homeland Security, of which Robert Lemos was a primary author.

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For three days, staff writer Rob Lemos covered “MSBlast,” producing several detailed reports for visitors. “MSBlast,” the latest threat to hit the Internet, is a piecemeal compilation of programs cobbled together to do a single job: spread across the Internet. The Frankenstein’s monster of code stitches together a widely available file server, one of several public programs to exploit a widespread Windows flaw, and common techniques for compromising computers.

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Robert Lemos shared the award with other CNET News.com team members for the five-part series, “Industrial Evolution.” Lemos wrote one of the five parts, “The high cost of the war of terrorism.”

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