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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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1118 articles by Dennis Fisher

VMware Bug Can Lead to Authentication Bypass

The VMware vCenter Server vulnerability (CVE-2020-3952) patched last week can lead to an authentication bypass as well as information disclosure.

Vmware

Microsoft Patches Three Windows Zero Days

Microsoft has fixed three flaws that attackers were using in targeted attacks for several weeks.

Microsoft

Deciphering Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller is a master of social engineering and possibly the witness protection identity of David Lightman from WarGames.

Podcast, Hacker Movies

RDP Drawing Unwanted Attention

The shift to remote work has caused a spike in the number of RDP servers exposed to the Internet, along with an increase in the number of scans for those servers.

RDP, Microsoft

Steal This Fingerprint

Research shows that attackers can bypass fingerprint sensors on some devices with as high as an 80 percent success rate.

Biometrics, 2fa