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
Lace Tempest Seen Exploiting SysAid Zero Day
A path traversal zero day (CVE-2023-47246) in the SysAid on-premises product is under active attack by the ace Tempest threat group.
Decipher Podcast: Kymberlee Price
Kymberlee Price, co-founder of Zatik, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her experience running security response programs at Microsoft, BlackBerry, and other companies, and how the changing security landscape helped lead her to start her own company.
Exploit Attempts, Ransomware Target Critical Confluence Flaw
Attackers are targeting the critical Atlassian Confluence flaw (CVE-2023-22518) with active exploit attempts, including some trying to deploy ransomware.
Memory Safe: Michelle Finneran Dennedy
In the premier episode of Memory Safe, our new podcast and video series, Dennis Fisher talks with Michelle Finneran Dennedy, founder and CEO of Privacy Code, former CPO of Sun Microsystems and Cisco, and all around great person, about her early interest in technology, the influence of her father on her career, and why she's still doing security after all this time.
Winter Vivern APT Targets Zero Day in Roundcube
The Winter Vivern APT group has been targeting a zero day XSS vulnerability in the Roundcube webmail server in recent weeks.