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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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Firefox Moves to Cut Off Supercookie Tracking

In Firefox 85, Mozilla is partitioning several caches in the browser in order to prevent trackers from abusing them.

Mozilla, Privacy

Decipher Podcast: Andy Ellis Returns

Andy Ellis, CSO of Akamai, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the importance of setting priorities, how to assess your strengths and weaknesses as an organization, and the NFL draft.

Podcast

Enduring Lessons From Securing the Election

Securing the 2020 election was a years-long process, and former CISA Director Chris Krebs found a number of key lessons for security teams during the effort.

Government

New Raindrop Tool Tied to SolarWinds Attackers

A piece of malware called Raindrop has been found in some networks compromised by the SolarWinds attackers.

Solarwinds

Attackers Eyeing Cloud Platforms

Attack groups are increasingly focusing their attention on cloud platforms and services as common entry points for victim networks.

Cloud