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
Q&A: Joe FitzPatrick
Hardware security researcher Joe FitzPatrick explains how non-experts should assess claims of hardware implants and backdoors.
Decipher Podcast: Joe FitzPatrick
Dennis Fisher speaks with hardware security researcher Joe FitzPatrick about finding and verifying hardware implants.
Into the Pandora’s Box of Hardware Implants
Joe FitzPatrick, one of the small number of hardware security experts, says security teams and operators need to ask hard questions when they see claims of malicious hardware implants.
Toward a Framework for Misinformation Campaigns
Researchers are developing a framework to analyze and describe misinformation campaigns, similar to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Android Q Steps Up Location Privacy
Google's Android Q will include a handful of changes to the way that the OS deals with location privacy and other app permissions.