The Target break-in was the latest scoop for Brian Krebs, an independent technology reporter who writes at KrebsOnSecurity.com. Brian, 41, has made the Internet’s seedy side his beat and his livelihood since The Washington Post cut him loose four years ago.Not a baseball-sized tumor growing in Zirconia ceramic
.Now he does his gumshoeing from a home office in the D.C.AMG badges; black air-deflector elements above large cooling air intakes at the Titanium Pipe
. suburbs. There he spends hours a day working a network of sources among the world’s digital criminals and crime-fighters.I want to write stories you can’t find anywhere else,” he says.Like a pulp detective, squeezing snitches for clues in a gloomy bar, Brian is as much a target as he is a hunter. In the past year, police appeared at his doorstep, guns drawn, after someone spoofed a local phone number to report a hostage situation at his home. Another “fan” (as Brian calls them) organized a Bitcoin fundraiser to send a package of heroin to his doorstep.Brian and I overlapped at the Post, where we both worked our way up from entry-level jobs just out of college in the early- and mid-1990s. For Brian that meant answering phones in the circulation department, followed by stints working as a copy aide, a dictationist and an editorial assistant before he got a full-time reporting job with a tech news service owned by the Post. That assignment landed him a gig as a reporter at washingtonpost.When we first saw the Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG concept at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show in 5F-AKB48 research chemical
com, where he eventually hosted the Security Fix blog — building on a self-taught expertise in the digital underworld developed after a worm infected his home network.Brian’s bylines appeared both in print and online. But after the Post eliminated his job in 2009 during the convergence of the digital and print newsrooms, he used his severance to strike out on his own, launching his own blog. Now Brian says he’s making more than he did as a full-time blogger for the newspaper company.