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
Evil Corp Deploys New WastedLocker Ransomware
The Evil Corp group responsible for the Dridex malware is using a new ransomware called WastedLocker that targets cloud services and backups.
Password Spraying Leads to Compromise of Cloud Identities
The Holmium threat group has been using password spraying attacks against Office 365 to gain access to corporate networks.
Enterprise, Embedded Devices at Risk From Ripple20 Bugs
Hundreds of millions of embedded and enterprise devices are vulnerable to a long list of flaws in the Treck TCP/IP stack.
Pandemic-Related Malware Activity Falling Off
Malware and phishing campaigns preying on interest in the COVID-19 crisis have spiked but are now falling off in many places.
Intel to Add Hardware Defense Against Subtle Attacks
Intel's new Control-Flow Enforcement Technology will be built into its forthcoming Tiger Lake processors and integrated with Windows 10.