Dan Goodin

Dan Goodin is a seasoned journalist specializing in cybersecurity and technology, currently serving as Security Editor and Reporter at Ars Technica. With a Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Massachusetts and a Master's of Journalism from UC Berkeley, he has built a 14-year career covering malware, botnets, hardware hacking, and cybercrime. His notable investigations include exposing nation-state router backdoors in ASUS devices, analyzing AI developer tool vulnerabilities in GitLab, and documenting long-undetected malware in NPM repositories. Goodin's work regularly appears in Ars Technica, CNN, WIRED, and MSN, combining technical depth with investigative rigor on emerging cyber threats.