Recent Authors
Eugene Kaspersky
In 1987, Eugene Kaspersky graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, where he studied mathematics, cryptography and computer technology.
Eugene first began studying computer viruses after detecting the Cascade virus on his computer in October 1989. He started collecting malware and developing disinfection modules for them. This exotic collection later formed the foundation of the famous antivirus database in Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Today, it is one of the most complete antivirus databases in the world.
In 1997, Eugene and a team of his colleagues founded Kaspersky Lab. Since then, he has headed the company's antivirus research.
In 2007, Eugene was named CEO of Kaspersky Lab.
Uri Rivner
Uri is Head of New Technologies, Identity Protection and Verification, at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. At RSA, Mr. Rivner is responsible for moving new technologies and innovations from concept to reality, and for more than eight years he has been involved in the research of online fraud and the development of mitigation strategies and technologies to prevent it.
George Hulme
An award-winning writer and journalist, for more than 20 years George Hulme has written about business, technology, and IT security topics. He currently freelances for a wide range of publications, and is security blogger at InformationWeek.com. From March 2000 through March 2005, as senior editor at InformationWeek magazine, he covered the IT security and homeland security beats. His work has appeared on CNN.com, Government Computer News, Information Security, Nation’s Business, Network World, San Francisco Examiner, The Industry Standard, VARBusiness, and dozens of other technology publications.
Wolfgang Kandek
As the CTO for Qualys, Wolfgang is responsible for product direction and all operational aspects of the QualysGuard platform and its infrastructure. Wolfgang has over 20 years of experience in developing and managing information systems. His focus has been on Unix-based server architectures and application delivery through the Internet. Prior to joining Qualys, Wolfgang was Director of Network Operations at the Online Music streaming company myplay.com and at iSyndicate, an Internet media syndication company. Earlier in his career, Wolfgang held a variety of technical positions at EDS, MCI and IBM. Wolfgang earned a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Robert Vamosi
Robert is a senior analyst at Mocana and author of "When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of our Infatuation with New Technologies”. As an award-winning journalist with more than nine years of major news organization experience, Vamosi specializes in computer security, cybercrime, and computer viruses. Additional skills include editing, product review, on-camera talent, and podcast host. He has written extensively about computer security, criminal hacking, incident response, vulnerability disclosure, data loss prevention, botnets, malware, virus writers, cross-site scripting attacks, and flaws within DNS.
Willem Pinckaers
Willem is a Senior Security Consultant at Matasano Security, a New York-based vulnerability analysis company. He specializes in black box code auditing, vulnerability research, reverse engineering and penetration testing.
Magnus Kalkuhl
Magnus joined Kaspersky Lab in 2006, working first as a Virus Analyst in the German office before rising to Senior Regional Researcher in 2008. After heading the German research and analysis group for two years, Magnus was appointed as Director of the European Research and Analysis Team in 2010. Magnus specializes in IT forensics, in-the-cloud security and researching the impact that future threats will have on the digital world. He is also responsible for maintaining close contact with independent testing and research bodies throughout Europe on behalf of the Company.
Aleks Gostev
Aleks led the Global Research & Analysis Team from 2008 before moving to his current position as Chief Security Expert with the team in 2010. Aleks specializes in all aspects of information security, including mobile malware. His responsibilities include detecting and analyzing new malware. His research and analytical articles are published both on dedicated IT sites and in the mass media. He has been with the company since 2002 and is based in Moscow.
Dennis Fisher
Veteran security reporter Dennis Fisher has nearly a decade of experience reporting on security industry news and issues. In his role as Editor of Threatpost, the first stop for security news, Dennis provides analysis on fast-breaking industry stories , writes original in-depth features and authors the Digital Underground blog covering malware attacks and cybercrime for Threatpost readers. In addition to Threatpost, Dennis serves as a Security Evangelist for Kaspersky Lab Americas. In this role, he helps to educate users about the dangers that exist on the Internet.
Nikolay Grebennikov
Nikolay was appointed Chief Technology Officer of Kaspersky Lab at the beginning of 2009. He joined the Company in 2003 as a systems analyst for the Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstation 5.0 project team and within six months was heading the Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 team. Following this, Nikolay was appointed Deputy Director of Innovative Technologies with responsibility for the Company’s new research into proactive defense, heuristic detection, information leakage prevention, keyloggers and rootkits. From 2008 until taking on his current role, Nikolay was Vice President of Research and Development.
Maria Namestnikova
Maria has worked for Kaspersky Lab since August 2008, firstly as a Junior Spam Analyst, then rising to become one of the Company’s fully-fledged Spam Analysts. Her main duties include the analysis of German-language spam, completing monthly analytical spam reports and participating in the many Kaspersky Lab educational initiatives. She was appointed Senior Spam Analyst in 2010.
Darya Gudkova
Darya joined Kaspersky Lab in 2006 as a Spam Analyst. She now heads the Spam Analyst Group and is responsible for providing information on the spam landscape, future trends and mass mailing techniques. She also writes regular reports on spam evolution.
Oleg Zaitsev
Oleg joined Kaspersky Lab in 2007 as a Developer in the Complex Threat Analysis Group. He was promoted to Technology Expert in November 2008 and is responsible for carrying out research into new detection and disinfection technologies, investigating and disinfecting remote systems and analyzing the behavior of malware.
Elmar Török
Elmar Török has been working in the IT-Industry since 1989. He became an author and technical journalist in 1993 while studying electrical engineering in Munich and Kempten. Since then he has written hundreds of articles for just about every major computer and networking publication in Germany. Elmar specialises in IT-Security and storage issues, has a solid knowledge of server-related topics and knows his way around virtualization. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the security periodical “Infodienst IT-Grundschutz” and is involved in the final acceptance process of new material for the IT-Grundschutz Catalogues of the Federal Office for Information Security.
Roel Schouwenberg
Roel joined Kaspersky Lab in 2004 as a Senior Technology Consultant for the BNL region. Since 2008, Roel has worked as a Senior Antivirus Researcher in North America where he is responsible for monitoring the regional malware situation and for the preliminary analysis of the threat situation. Roel specializes in the classic virus techniques used in today's malware and works on the improvement of proactive detection capabilities. In addition, Roel also conducts research into the vulnerabilities of many different types of file formats.
Vyacheslav Rusakov
Vyacheslav joined Kaspersky Lab in 2008 as a Software Expert. He is based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vyacheslav's areas of specialization include research into malware, the analysis of complex threats and anti-rootkit technologies. His professional interests include the antivirus industry and security in general.
Robert Lemos
Robert Lemos is a veteran technology journalist of more than 13 years, focusing on computer security, cybercrime and enterprise issues. Robert 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. Robert was Acting Editor of SecurityFocus, a security news and information site owned by the Symantec Corporation from April 2005 until August 2009, providing daily independent journalism and investigative articles covering security incidents, malicious code, vulnerabilities and cybercrime.
Yury Mashevsky
Yury joined Kaspersky Lab in 2003 as a Virus Analyst. In 2007, he was appointed Head of the Analysis and Statistics Group, specializing in the provision of statistical data illustrating the evolution of malware.
Stefan Tanase
Stefan joined Kaspersky Lab in 2007 as a Regional Researcher. He is based in Romania and is responsible for monitoring the local threat landscape. He specializes in web security, malware 2.0 and threats which target Internet banking systems, including phishing. Stefan is involved in several innovative research projects, ranging from malware databases, or honeypots, to web crawlers. Stefan was appointed Senior Security Researcher in 2009.
Brian Krebs
Brian Krebs is editor of krebsonsecurity.com, a daily blog dedicated to in-depth Internet security news and investigation. Most recently, Krebs was a reporter for The Washington Post, where he covered Internet security, cybercrime and privacy issues for the newspaper and the Web site. Krebs got his start in journalism at The Post in 1995, and has been writing about computer security, privacy and cybercrime for more than a decade.
Maciej Ziarek
Maciej joined Kaspersky Lab in 2008. Before joining Kaspersky Lab, Maciej wrote for Internet websites and worked at the Information Centre of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, the same university from which he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Archival Science and Documentation Management. Maciej is currently studying Computer Science at the Wyzsza Szkola Informatyki in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His interests include cryptography, wireless network security and social engineering.
Nikita Shvetsov
Nikita joined Kaspersky Lab in 2004 as a virus analyst and in 2006 became a senior developer working on emulators for the heuristic engine. He was appointed Director of the Anti-Malware Research Unit in 2009. In his current role he is in charge of developing and implementing the strategy for protecting users of the company’s products from malware, as well as coordinating work with independent test labs. His area of expertise also covers reverse engineering, system programming, proactive protection, heuristic detection, and software copy and modification protection.
Costin Raiu
Costin joined Kaspersky Lab in 2000 as a leading Antivirus Researcher. Prior to becoming Director of the Global Research & Analysis Team in 2010, Costin was Head of the Romanian R&D group, overseeing research efforts in the EEMEA region. Costin specializes in malicious websites, browser security and exploits, e-banking malware, enterprise-level security and Web 2.0 threats. Costin also has a particular interest in encryption and advanced mathematics. Costin is based in Romania.
Denis Maslennikov
Denis has been with Kaspersky Lab since the beginning of 2007. Working initially as a virus analyst, he is responsible for monitoring the threat landscape, with a specific interest in mobile malware, attacks on social networking sites, Instant Messenger threats and ICQ spam. He became a senior malware analyst in 2008. From 2009 Denis has been heading the Mobile Research Group. He also acts as an expert in the main trends of malware development.
Joerg Geiger
Joerg Geiger has 11years experience in IT-Journalism. Having completed his Diploma in Computer Science, Joerg worked as a Senior Editor for a number of different printed and online magazines. For the last 3 years, Joerg has been a freelance contributor to German newspapers, websites and various IT companies and specializes in operating systems, ITSecurity and mobile IT.
David Jacoby
David joined Kaspersky Lab in 2010 as a Senior Security Researcher for the Nordic region. In addition, David is responsible for technical PR activities and acts as a technical spokesperson for the Nordic region. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden. David specializes in Unix, Linux and web security. His research focuses on improving awareness of the threats users are exposed to on the Internet.
Ryan Naraine
Ryan joined Kaspersky Lab in 2008. He has extensive experience in IT security and has been monitoring security and hacker attack trends for over 10 years. Ryan is one of ZdNet’s leading Zero Day bloggers, is widely published, and has extensive experience of the IT media world. He is credited with creating and managing the Threatpost.com news project.
Roman Gavrilchenko
Roman joined Kaspersky Lab in 2006. As a virus analyst processing large flows of malicious programs he devised and implemented a script emulator. Since 2007, Roman has been a senior developer in the Emulation Technologies group responsible for perfecting and maintaining the emulator. In 2008, the script emulator developed by Roman was incorporated into Kaspersky Lab’s products.
Andrew Storms
As nCircle's Director of Security Operations, Andrew Storms is responsible for the definition and enforcement of the company's security compliance programs as well as overseeing day-to-day operations for the Information Technology department.