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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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1131 articles by Dennis Fisher

Wyden Introduces Tough New Privacy Bill

Sen. Ron Wyden has introduced a new privacy measure that would allow the FTC to assess huge fines for corporations that misuse consumer data--and mean jail time for executives who lie about their companies' policies.

Privacy, Government

HTTP Request Smuggling Bug in Go Affects Kubernetes

A flaw in the way Go handles some invalid HTTP headers could allow an attacker to authenticate as any user on a Kubernetes server in some instances.

Kubernetes

Decipher Podcast: Kenn White

Kenneth White of MongoDB joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the challenges of encryption implementations in modern enterprise networks.

Podcast

Lazarus Group Deploying New macOS Backdoor

The Lazarus APT group has developed another macOS backdoor that has been delivered through a fake cryptocurrency trading app.

Macos

Imperva Breach Stemmed From Compromised Internal Compute Instance

A data breach disclosed in August by Imperva came from an AWS API key stolen from a compromised internal compute instance in 2017.

Data Breaches