Humans Are Bad at Risk Assessment, and Other Stories
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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
NSA Warns Russian Attackers are Exploiting Old Exim Flaw
The Sandworm team, associated with the Russian GRU, is exploiting a flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent, the NSA warned in a new advisory.
Decipher Podcast: Alex Pinto
Alex Pinto from Verizon Enterprise joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the findings of the 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report.
OpenSSH Will Deprecate SHA-1
OpenSSH will soon deprecate the use of SHA-1 because of the risk of specific attacks against the algorithm.
Stolen Credentials Behind Supercomputing Attacks
Compromised credentials and empty SSH passphrases led to the string of attacks on academic supercomputing sites in recent weeks.
Hacker Allegedly Connected to Collection 1 Credential Dump Arrested
Authorities in Ukraine arrested a suspect they say is Sanix, a hacker connected to the sale of the huge Collection 1 credential database.