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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
U.S. Sanctions Makers of Predator Spyware
The Department of the Treasury has sanctioned five entities and two people associated with the sale of the Predator spyware.
CISA, FBI Warn of Continued BlackCat Ransomware Activity
The BlackCat ransomware group is continuing to target health care organizations and hospitals two months after the FBI disrupted some of the group's operations.
CISA Details Cloud-Focused Attack Techniques Used by APT29
CISA and some its foreign partner agencies are warning that APT29 is using a variety of techniques to target cloud services and accounts.
Critical ScreenConnect Flaw Under Active Exploitation
The ConnectWise ScreeConnect authentication vulnerability disclosed this week is now under active exploitation and there is proof-of-concept exploit code available.
Decipher Podcast: Jennifer Leggio Returns
Jennifer Leggio, a longtime security industry executive who has served in many different roles, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the shift in thinking among those in the security community, technical gatekeeping in security, her new consulting venture Moveable Feast, and finding your niche.