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
Decipher Podcast: The Microsoft Recall Recall
A few days after Microsoft announced the new AI-enabled Recall feature--generating tremendous concerns and pushback from the security and privacy communities--the company had decided to disable it by default, but many concerns still remain. A month after the company's CEO proclaimed that it would be "prioritizing security above all else", how did this happen?
Critical PHP Flaw CVE-2024-4577 Patched
A critical remote code execution bug (CVE-2024-4577) in all versions of PHP on Windows has been patched. The bug also affects all Windows versions of XAMPP.
The Challenge of Reporting on Complex Breaches
Veteran security journalist and podcaster Ryan Naraine joins the Decipher podcast to discuss the challenges of separating fact from fiction when reporting on complex incidents such as the Snowflake breach.
Exploit Attempts Against Check Point CVE-2024-24919 On the Rise
Hundreds of separate IP addresses are now trying to exploit the Check Point patch traversal flaw (CVE-2024-24919) that was disclosed lat week.
Researchers Warn of Potential Abuse of Azure Service Tags
Tenable researchers discovered a technique for abusing Azure service tags to bypass firewall rules and Microsoft has issued new guidance for customers.