Humans Are Bad at Risk Assessment, and Other Stories
Risk management is not one of humanity's strong points, but we can learn some lessons from our own real life experiences to apply
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Dennis Fisher
Editor in ChiefDennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist who has been covering information security and privacy since 2000.
He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and most of his kids’ English papers.
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Featured Articles
Software Has Eaten the World But There’s Still Hope
As software systems have become ever more complex, the opportunity for security researchers to show their value has grown, as
Digging Into FIN7’s Latest Tools and Tactics
FIN7 is a highly active and capable cybercrime group also known as Carbanak that has been evolving and using its own tools such as
SolarWinds Attackers Accessed Mimecast Source Code
The attackers behind the SolarWinds breach also gained access to and downloaded some Mimecast source code repositories.
Decipher Podcast: Andrew Morris
Andrew Morris, founder of GreyNoise, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the unique origins of the company and the security case for removing all of the background noise from the Internet to find what really matters.
Microsoft Releases One-Click Mitigation for Exchange Flaw
Microsoft has published a new tool that installs a mitigation for the CVE-2021-26855 Exchange ProxyLogon flaw.
Number of Exchange Servers Vulnerable to ProxyLogon Declines
The number of Exchange servers vulnerable to the ProxyLogon flaws is continuing to drop, but there are still more than 60,000 online.
DearCry Ransomware Hitting Exchange Servers
Attackers are installing the DearCry ransomware on some vulnerable Exchange servers.