Thomas Brewster

Associate Consultant

United Kingdom16 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Award-winning journalist with extensive cybersecurity coverage.
Editor of The Wiretap newsletter on surveillance and privacy.
Prolific contributor to major publications like Forbes and The Guardian.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media and Journalism expert specializing in cybersecurity and privacy.

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About

Got a tip? Get me on Signal at +1 929-512-7964. I’m the security, surveillance and privacy reporter for Forbes Magazine. My page, where you can read all the things I cover and the stories I break, is here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster You can also sign up to my newsletter, The Wiretap, in which I detail how surveillance works in the real world with criminal cases you wouldn't have heard about anywhere else, as well as all the cybersecurity and privacy news you need to know about: https://www.forbes.com/newsletter/thewiretap/

Experience

16 yrs

Total Experience

6 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

11 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Forbes

3 roles

Senior Writer

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Covering all things crime, cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. Editor of The Wiretap newsletter, looking at how police use surveillance tools and all the cyber and privacy news of the week. Out every Monday.
Got a tip for me? Want to keep it private? Get me on Signal at +447782376697.
I'm also at tbrewster@forbes.com.

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Associate Editor

Sep 2019 – May 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Writer on all things security and privacy, as well as editor of The Wiretap, a newsletter in which I detail how surveillance works in the real world with criminal cases you wouldn't have heard about anywhere else, as well as all the cybersecurity and privacy news you need to know about. Sign up here: https://www.forbes.com/newsletter/thewiretap/

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Security and privacy reporter

Jan 2015 – May 2023 · 8 yrs 4 mos

I cover the security, surveillance and privacy beats at Forbes. You can find all of my articles here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/
If you have any stories/tips/suggestions, please drop me a line at tbrewster@forbes.com, or on Signal or WhatsApp at +447782376697.

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Various

Freelance Journalist And Writer

Oct 2013 – May 2023 · 9 yrs 7 mos · London

Award-winning journalist, covering technology, business and culture.
I've had major features across various publications, including the Times, the Register and WIRED, and I'm a regular contributor for the Guardian, Vice Motherboard and Forbes. Some examples below:
Guardian: US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/us-cybercrime-laws-security-researchers
Guardian: Crucial military satellite systems are vulnerable to hacking, experts say
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/17/military-satellite-system-vulnerable-hacking
Guardian: Boris Johnson's £1m startup competition flops
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/25/boris-johnson-london-silicon-roundabout-startup-competition-tech
Vice: When criminal hackers turn legit
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-criminal-hackers-turn-legit-1
Vice: How to catch a hacker in the act
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-to-catch-a-hacker-in-the-act
Forbes: Security World To Microsoft - Stop Trying To Police The Internet
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2014/07/01/security-world-to-microsoft-stop-trying-to-police-the-internet/
Wired: How the UK's new cyber cops will wage war on the dark web
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/21/cybercrime-dark-web
The Register: Unlocking CryptoLocker: How infosec bods hunt the fiends behind it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/16/unlocking_cryptolocker_how_it_became_2013s_nastiest_threat/
The Quietus: Lost In Translations, In The Library Of Babel:
http://thequietus.com/articles/13060-literature-lost-in-translation
Get in touch via tbthomasbrewster@gmail.com.

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Techweekeurope

Deputy Editor

Mar 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

Wrote for and edited one of the biggest trade IT titles in the UK, producing award-winning content, managing colleagues in junior roles, editing and commissioning articles, defining editorial strategy, presenting videos, podcasts and webcasts.
Won BT Security Journalist of the Year 2012 during my time at TechWeekEurope, and drove plenty of traffic to the site, which was consistently seeing over 500,000 uniques a month.
Broke many stories, including the arrest of the person alleged to be one of the world's most infamous cyber criminals (http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/blackhole-exploit-kit-author-arrested-in-russia-128978), an EU investigation into the UK government's broadband rollout (http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/european-commission-bduk-85777) and US lobbying on EU privacy laws (http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/eu-us-data-privacy-war-100999).

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