Byron Acohido is a business journalist who has been writing about cybersecurity and privacy since 2004, and currently blogs at LastWatchdog.com. Earlier in his career, as a technology reporter at USA TODAY, Acohido chronicled the rise of cybercrime and the demise of personal privacy, earning numerous national journalism awards. He is the lead author of Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks And Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity, which received the 2009 NYSSCPA Excellence in Financial Journalism Award for general audience books. While at the Seattle Times earlier in his career, Acohido was awarded the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and 11 other national awards for investigative stories on aviation safety.

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