Brian Krebs worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009, he authored well over thousands of blog posts for the Security Fix blog, as well as hundreds of stories for Washington Post and The Washington Post newspaper, including eight front-page stories in the dead-tree edition and a Post Magazine cover piece on botnet operators.
In 2014, he was profiled in The New York Times, Business Week, NPR’s Terry Gross, and by Poynter.org. More recently, he was invited to an “Ask Me Anything” discussion on Reddit about investigative reporting.
He states that much of my knowledge about computers and Internet security comes from having cultivated regular and direct access to some of the smartest and most clueful geeks on the planet. The rest he thinks probably comes from a willingness to take risks, make mistakes, and learn from them.