New Threat Group Targets Middle Eastern Telcos
A new attack group named ShroudedSnooper is targeting telecom providers in Middle Eastern countries with custom tools called...
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Dennis Fisher
Editor in ChiefDennis 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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Featured Articles
U.S., U.K. Hit Trickbot Group With Fresh Sanctions
The Department of the Treasury and the U.K. government have sanctioned 11 alleged members of the Trickbot group and say the...
Analyzing the Qakbot Disruption
Decipher editors Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch discuss the FBI's disruption of the Qakbot malware operation and...
Privacy, Policy, and the Illusion of Control
Congress seems intent on passing federal data privacy legislation, but simply giving consumers more control won't be enough.
Deciphering Sneakers
Sneakers isn't just one of the best hacker movies of all time, it's a spiritual successor to WarGames and one of the most entertaining movies ever. Full stop.
ICANN Warns of ‘Ongoing and Significant’ Threat to DNS
A series of DNS-hijacking campaigns against government agencies and other organizations has led ICANN to call for full deployment of DNSSEC and other protective measures.
BIND 9 Contains Serious Memory Leak
Some versions of BIND 9 contain a severe memory leak that can exhaust the memory resources on a vulnerable server.
19-Year-Old Bug Haunts WinRAR
A bug that can grant arbitrary code execution has been lurking in the WinRAR compression utility since 2000.