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Rob is news director in the Security Media Group where he helps prioritize and build cohesive news coverage across the group's websites in the TechTarget portfolio. As a news reporter and editor for SearchSecurity.com, he produces news stories daily on breaking cybersecurity news and trending topics as well as topical podcasts and videos. He is producer of SearchSecurity's Security Wire Weekly podcast. Since joining TechTarget in July 2003, Rob has covered SAP, Oracle and the database industry for SearchDatabase.com, SearchSAP.com and SearchOracle.com. Prior to joining TechTarget, Rob was a newspaper reporter for five years at The Day in New London, Conn., where he wrote a variety of crime, general news, government and business stories while covering towns in Southeastern Connecticut. A military veteran, Rob served four years with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Forces Police in Kaiserslautern Germany. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Connecticut.
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Contributions from Robert Westervelt, News Director
- Going on the offense
- 2012 breaches hold lessons for 2013
- Security tips for newly activated mobile devices
- IT security, compliance pros seek promotions in 2013
- US-CERT advisory points to Shockwave plugin weakness
- Blue Coat to acquire UTM networking firm Crossbeam
- Verizon, Criterion to add validation to identity model
- Crafty Trojan uses left mouse click to evade detection
- FBI arrests aided by Facebook security team
- Social engineering, employee gaffes require attention
- Firms fail to control health care breaches, study finds
- Zeus gang lure victims using new spam campaign
- Piracy, IP theft addressed by embedded device experts
- Software code improvements impact Zero-day Initiative
- Spear phishing at heart of targeted attacks
- U.S. CERT warns of new Samsung, Dell printer threat
- Study finds most antivirus products ineffective
- The vulnerability of critical infrastructure
- Fugitive tracking system shows how to build security in
- DNS attack targets some Go Daddy hosted sites
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