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
HTTP Request Smuggling Bug in Go Affects Kubernetes
A flaw in the way Go handles some invalid HTTP headers could allow an attacker to authenticate as any user on a Kubernetes server in some instances.
Decipher Podcast: Kenn White
Kenneth White of MongoDB joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the challenges of encryption implementations in modern enterprise networks.
Lazarus Group Deploying New macOS Backdoor
The Lazarus APT group has developed another macOS backdoor that has been delivered through a fake cryptocurrency trading app.
Imperva Breach Stemmed From Compromised Internal Compute Instance
A data breach disclosed in August by Imperva came from an AWS API key stolen from a compromised internal compute instance in 2017.
FIN7 Attackers Roll Out New Tools
The FIN7 group has begun deploying new tools, including a module that specifically targets a remote administration tool for payment card systems.