Number of SolarWinds Orion Servers Online Rising Post-Breach
The number of SolarWinds Orion servers online is rising in the past week, possibly a result of misconfigurations as customers...
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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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Decipher Library: Holiday Edition
The editors of Decipher have put together a list of books, technical and otherwise, you can enjoy during a well-deserved...
Flaw in GRUB 2 Boot Loader Threatens Many Linux Systems
A buffer overflow (CVE-2020-10713) in the GRUB 2 boot loader can allow an attacker to gain code execution on many Linux systems...
‘Nothing’s Going to Last Forever’: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part Four
In 1999 a group of venture capitalists came together to buy the L0pht and make it part of @stake, a security consulting firm.
How Attackers Try to Outmaneuver Google Play Security
Malicious app developers are using anti-reverse engineering tactics to get around Google Play security restrictions.
Thirty Minutes Or Less: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part Three
The L0pht hacker group testified before the Senate in 1998 and told the lawmakers they could take down the Internet in 30 minutes or less because of a vulnerability in the BGP protocol.
The Wide World of Cryptocurrency Crime
Cryptocurrency crime is expanding beyond ransomware to in-browser mining and nation-state attacks.
The Merger of Hacking and Disinformation
Hacking and disinformation have merged to become the favored methods of political parties, nations, and individual attackers.