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
ISC Patches Serious DoS Flaw in BIND
The ISC has released a fix for a serious denial-of-service vulnerability in many versions of BIND 9.
U.S. Takes Down Hive Ransomware Infrastructure
The FBI and international alw enforcement agencies have taken down the Hive ransomware infrastructure.
Google Cracks Down on Dragonbridge Pro-China Information Operation
Google has disrupted more than 50,000 accounts linked to the Dragonbridge pro-China information operation in the last year.
Attacker Stole GoTo Customer Backups and Encryption Key
GoTo says an attacker stole some encrypted customer backups as well as an encryption key for some of those databases.
North Korean Attackers TA444 Shift Tactics
The TA444 threat group has changed its tactics in recent weeks, moving to new delivery methods and payloads.