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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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NSA Warns Russian Attackers Are Exploiting VMware Flaw

The NSA warned that Russian state attackers are targeting a recent VMware vulnerability, which NSA discovered and disclosed.

Vmware, Vulnerability

Decipher Podcast: Ryan Noon and Abhishek Agrawal

Ryan Noon and Abhishek Agrawal, founders of Material Security, join Dennis Fisher to talk about fixing the email security problem and approaching security challenges with diverse mindsets.

Podcast

New TrickBot Module Targets UEFI Firmware

The TrickBot trojan now includes a capability to scan for vulnerable UEFI firmware implementations and could soon exploit them.

Trickbot

The Painful Calculus of Ransomware Payments

Ransomware gangs have added data theft to their tactics, bringing another variable into the pay or don't pay equation.

Ransomware

New Signed Version of Old Bandook Malware Emerges

New variants of the Bandook malware that are digitally signed have been used in a recent wave of attacks on organizations in many industries.

Malware