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
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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
Operation Endgame Targets Trickbot, IcedID, Other Botnets in Huge Disruption
Europol and other agencies disrupted several major malware families, including IcedID, Bymblebess, Trickbot, and Smokeloader in an
AI Security ‘Is a Software Problem’
Securing AI systems and LLMs seems like a daunting task, but experts say the same principles that apply to software security can
Xen Fixes Cache Flaw
The Xen Project has released an update to address a bug (CVE-2023-34321) that can allow a guest to read sensitive data from another's guest's memory.
Analyzing the Qakbot Disruption
Decipher editors Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch discuss the FBI's disruption of the Qakbot malware operation and what it might mean for the larger malware ecosystem.
Splunk Patches ANSI Bug in ITSI
Splunk has released updates to fix an odd bug that allows an attacker to inject special codes into log files, potentially leading to remote code execution.
Attackers Target Juniper SRX and EX Flaws
Adversaries are targeting flaws in Juniper's EX and SRX series devices that can be chained together to gain remote code execution.
Decipher Podcast: Danny Rogers and Rocky Cole
iVerify CEO Danny Rogers and COO Rocky Cole join Dennis Fisher to discuss the spinout of the iVerify mobile security tool as a standalone company, the scourge of mercenary spyware, and how enterprises can protect their users.