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
New CosmicStrand UEFI Rootkit Variant Found
Kaspersky researchers have found a new UEFI rootkit called CosmicStrand that infects the firmware of some specific motherboards.
New Retbleed Speculative Execution Flaw Emerges
A new speculative execution flaw called Retbleed affects many AMD and Intel chips running any modern operating system.
Microsoft Exposes Phishing Campaign That Stole Session Cookies to Bypass MFA
Microsoft has identified a long, widespread phishing campaign that stole session cookies to bypass MFA and led to BEC and payment fraud.
Q&A: Joe Grand
Hardware hacker Joe Grand discusses his work hacking hardware cryptocurrency wallets and how much he still has to learn after decades of hacking.
Apple Lockdown Mode ‘First Step Toward Mainstreaming Better Protections’
The new Lockdown Mode that will be in iOS 16 this fall will disable many features used to target at-risk users with commercial spyware tools.