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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

Attackers Target Juniper SRX and EX Flaws

Adversaries are targeting flaws in Juniper's EX and SRX series devices that can be chained together to gain remote code execution.

Juniper

Decipher Podcast: Danny Rogers and Rocky Cole

iVerify CEO Danny Rogers and COO Rocky Cole join Dennis Fisher to discuss the spinout of the iVerify mobile security tool as a standalone company, the scourge of mercenary spyware, and how enterprises can protect their users.

Podcast

Federal VDP Program Shows Early Success

The federal government's vulnerability disclosure policy platform has taken in more than 1,300 unique valid bug reports in its first 18 months.

Government, Vulnerabilities

Exploit Code Published for Ivanti Sentry Flaw

Researchers have published working exploit code for the Ivanti Sentry CVE-2023-38035 flaw.

Ivanti

Serious RCE Bug Fixed in WinRAR

The makers of WinRAR have released a new version that fixes a serious remote code execution flaw (CVE-2023-4407) in the compression utility.

Patch