Top Cyber Security Journalist Award Winners

Voted by their peers as the year's best of the best!

These outstanding honorees were selected from a field of more than 100 journalists through a multi-step nomination and voting process in which only current active cyber journalists participated. Thus, the awardees have earned the highest honor a professional can seek - to have been selected by their peers as the best practitioners of their craft. These awards reflect the full body of work of each journalist. The example story is simply one they thought exemplified their work.

2018 Award Winners

Chris Bing - @Bing_Chris 

Reuters News

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Inside the UAE's Secret Hacking Team of American Mercenaries

Joseph Cox - @josephfcox

Motherboard

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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone

Andy Greenberg - @a_greenberg

Wired

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The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

Kelly Jackson Higgins - @kjhiggins

Dark Reading

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The Morris Worm Turns 30

Jenna McLaughlin - @JennaMC_Laugh

Yahoo News

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The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran

Bob McMillan - @bobmcmillan 

Wall Street Journal

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You think discovering a virus is hard? try naming one

Ellen Nakashima - @nakashimae

Washington Post

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China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare

Fahmida Rashid - @FYRashid

Decipher

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Pay or Not Pay a Ransom? It's Not That Simple

Dustin Volz - @dnvolz

Wall Street Journal

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Tech firms let Russia probe software widely used by U.S. government

Kim Zetter - @KimZetter

Wired/The Intercept/NYTimes Magazine

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The Crisis of Election Security

Up And Comers

Kashmir Hill - @kashhill

Gizmodo

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I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell

Lily Hay Newman - @lilyhnewman

Wired

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Police Body Cams Can be Hacked to Doctor Footage

Zack Whittaker

TechCrunch

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Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking

2014 Award Winners

Jim Finkle

Reuters

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INSIGHT - U.S. government probes medical devices for possible cyber flaws

Dan Goodin - @dangoodin001

Arstechnica.com

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This thumbdrive hacks computers. "BadUSB" exploit makes devices turn "evil"

Andrew Greenberg - @a_greenberg

Wired

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Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money

Kelly Jackson Higgins - @kjhiggins

Dark Reading

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Incident Response Now Shaping Security Operations

Brian Krebs - @briankrebs

krebsonsecurity.com

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Peek Inside a Professional Carding Shop

Robert Lemos

searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com

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Cloud attacks sneak past gap between enterprises and providers

Joe Menn

Reuters

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Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

Ellen Nakashima - @nakashimae

Washington Post

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U.S. rallied multinational response to 2012 cyberattack on American banks

Nicole Perlroth

NY Times

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Reporting From the Web's Underbelly

Danny Yadron

The Wall Street Journal

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Home Depot Upped Defenses, But Hacker Moved Faster Retailer Culture of Preparation and Testing No Match for Stealthy Data Thieves

Kim Zetter - @KimZetter

Wired.com

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Countdown to Zero Day

Honorable Mention

Dennis Fischer

threatpost.com

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Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance

Lucian Constantin

IDG News Service, Romania Bureau

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Users face serious threat as hackers take aim at routers, embedded devices

Fahmida Y. Rashid

Free Lance Journalist

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Malware Mutation

2010 Award Winners

Byron Acohido

USA Today

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Cracking the Code

Keith Epstein

BusinessWeek

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The New E-spionage Threat

Dan Goodin - @dangoodin001

The Register

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Passport RFIDs Cloned Wholesale By $250 eBay Auction Spree

Siobhan Gorman

Wall Street Journal

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Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies

Brian Krebs - @briankrebs

krebsonsecurity.com

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FBI: Cyber Crooks Stole $40m from U.S. Small, Mid-Sized Firms

Robert Lemos

robertlemos.com

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Cyberwar: Is Offense the New Defense?

Robert McMillan

International Data Group

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Three Years Undercover With ID Thieves

Kevin Poulsen

Wired

Tim Wilson

Dark Reading

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Heartland Struggles To Measure Extent Of Massive Security Breach

Kim Zetter - @KimZetter

Wired