Heat, Kelso and the Hacker Mindset
In the 1995 classic Heat, the character Kelso is an old-school hacker with a background as a DARPA scientist who uses his
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.
In the 1995 classic Heat, the character Kelso is an old-school hacker with a background as a DARPA scientist who uses his
Europol and other agencies disrupted several major malware families, including IcedID, Bymblebess, Trickbot, and Smokeloader in an
Securing AI systems and LLMs seems like a daunting task, but experts say the same principles that apply to software security can
The Winter Vivern APT group has been targeting a zero day XSS vulnerability in the Roundcube webmail server in recent weeks.
Dennis Fisher talks with Mat Donahue, a former FBI counterterrorism specialist and founder and CEO of Kodex, and Nick Selby, a technologist and law enforcement officer, about the challenges organizations face when responding to data requests from law enforcement agencies and how CISOs and legal teams can address them.
Cisco has released an update for two zero days in IOS XE that attackers have been exploiting in the wild.
Law enforcement agencies from Europe and the U.S. seized the infrastructure and arrested alleged members of the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang this week.
APT groups from Russia and China are targeting CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR in multiple campaigns, deploying custom and commodity malware.