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
FBI Warns of Increase in Banking Trojan Attacks
The FBI is warning of a potential spike in mobile banking app attacks resulting from a drop in the number of people visiting physical bank branches.
Critical Flaw Patched in Windows SMB
Microsoft fixed a critical remote code execution flaw in the SMBv1 protocol in many of the current Windows versions.
Into the Great Wide Open With CVE-2020-0688
Hundreds of thousands of Exchange servers are still vulnerable to a dangerous flaw (CVE-2020-0688) four months after Microsoft released a patch for it.
Many Exim Servers Remain Vulnerable to Year-Old Flaw
New data shows that hundreds of thousands of Exim servers are still running versions vulnerable to flaws disclosed and patched last year.
iOS 13.5.1 Fixes Kernel Zero Day
Apple has patched, for the second time, a vulnerability in the iOS kernel that has been used in jailbreak tools.