
Jurgita Lapienyte
Jurgita Lapienytė is Chief Editor at Cybernews.
Her mission is to bring the most complicated cybersecurity topics to a broader audience, secretly hoping that more and more people will find themselves chatting about ransomware over dinner.
Before joining Cybernews, Jurgita spent over a decade in business journalism. Her investigative pieces have brought more justice and transparency to the transport, showbiz, retail, and catering sectors.
Jurgita dedicated a lifetime to exploring new horizons that sometimes might sound very random, like learning Yiddish. Proud mother of a wandering cat, red mustached parakeet, two degus, and, not to forget, a three-year-old daughter.
Publications
- Cybernews2 articles
Writes Most On
- My Google Pixel 9 eavesdropped on my life 24/7. Here’s how I made it stop30 Aug 2024—CybernewsGoogle Pixel phones have one extremely convenient feature – so convenient, in fact, that privacy goes straight out of the window. Having a Nokia 3310 back in the day sure was exciting. Compared to smartphones today, it did nothing, but I loved simply going through the settings and playing with different features. These days, however, smartphones are so packed with features that I probably won’t even find them all before my device reaches it end of support. I guess you can have too much of a...
- Emotet is back from vacation7 Nov 2022—CybernewsEmotet has sprung back up as one of the most dangerous malware, and there’s no one tool you can install to sleep tight at night. In January 2021, Europol disrupted what it called one of the most professional and long-lasting cybercrime services out there. We were under the impression that Europol “had control over the botnet to neuter it” – law enforcement was distributing anti-malware code via Emotet that essentially acted as a self-destruct button for the poisonous botnet. However, this...