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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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1135 articles by Dennis Fisher

Roll With the New: Continuous Security Delivery

Capsule8 is working to change the way enterprises think about attack detection and response.

Network Security

Facebook Simplifies 2FA Process for Users

Facebook has changed the way people can use two-factor authentication to protect their accounts, adding authenticator apps.

Facebook, 2fa

Time, and the LØpht, March On

Twenty years after their famous Senate hearing, four members of the L0pht hacker group came together this week to talk about where things stand.

L0pht

YubiKeys Now Work With iOS

Yubico has released an SDK that will enable iOS app developers to support hardware-based 2FA.

2fa, Yubico

The Business of America is Surveillance

The FCC is looking into a website flaw that allowed the real-time tracking of anyone with just a mobile phone number.

Government, Surveillance