Supreme Court to Review CFAA For First Time
The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a case related to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for the first time ever, a...
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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
Decipher Library: First Edition
We've put together a list of security and privacy related book recommendations from people across the industry, from technical...
Extensive Fraud Network Found Using Malicious Chrome Extensions
A long-running ad fraud campaign that was using more than 500 malicious Google Chrome extensions has been identified and halted...
Google Makes DNS Over HTTPS Default in Chrome
Chrome 83 introduces default support for DNS over HTTPS to protects users' DNS queries from surveillance.
Decipher Podcast: Ping Look
Ping Look, senior director of Microsoft's Detection and Response Team, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her team's work helping enterprises recover from intrusions, the spike in ransomware infections, and understanding attacker behavior.
Supercomputer Sites Still Struggling After Attacks
The attacks that hit numerous academic supercomputing sites have kept the powerful clusters offline for a week.
Attacks Knock Supercomputing Sites Offline
A series of possibly related incidents has forced supercomputing site ARCHER in the UK and several others in Germany offline in the past few days.
Stuxnet’s Legacy Lives on in New Windows Bug
A vulnerability in the Windows print spooler service patched this week echoes a similar one exploited by the Stuxnet worm 10 years ago.