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
Audit Uncovers Critical Flaw in iTerm2
A Mozilla-funded security audit of the iTerm2 terminal emulator for macOS found a critical remote-code execution bug.
Microsoft Identifies Targeted Attacks on Presidential Campaign, Government Officials
An attack group known as Phosphorus that is linked to the Iranian government has targeted email accounts of U.S. government officials and people associated with a presidential campaign.
Urgent/11 Flaws Now Affect Broader Range of Medical, Network Devices
The Urgent/11 vulnerabilities in the IPnet stack affect a much broader range of devices than originally thought.
Serious New Bug Emerges in Exim
A newly discovered buffer overflow in the Exim mail server can be used to cause a denial-of-service and possibly remote code execution.
Senate Bill Creates DHS Threat Hunting Teams
The Senate has passed a measure that creates threat hunting and response teams to help government agencies and enterprises respond to major cybersecurity incidents.