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Dennis Fisher

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Dennis 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 Podcast: Neil Daswani

Neil Daswani, co-director of the advanced security program at Stanford University and a former engineer at Twitter and Google, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his new book, Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone, and the common root causes and effects of major data breaches.

Podcast

‘Stop Acting Like These Attacks are Special or Rare’

National security experts and policy makers say the U.S. needs to act now to raise the cost of doing business for state-backed attackers.

Cisa, Government

Microsoft Fixes Critical TCP/IP Flaws and Actively Exploited Windows Bug

Microsoft has patched three flaws in the Windows TCP/IP implementation and a separate bug in Windows that is under active attack.

Microsoft

Attacker Accessed Florida Town’s Water Treatment System

An intruder gained access to a system that controls the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Fla., and tried to add excessive amounts of sodium hydroxide to it.

SCADA, ICS Security

Microsoft Investigating Reported IE Zero Day

Microsoft is looking into a report of a zero day in Internet Explorer that a group of Korean researchers say used to target them.

Microsoft, Vulnerability