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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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Decipher Podcast: Casey Ellis Returns

Casey Ellis, founder and CTO of Bugcrowd, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the newly formed Hacking Policy Council, the challenges of influencing security research policy and legislation, and what the council hopes to achieve.

Podcast

Earlier Supply Chain Attack Led to 3CX Intrusion

An intrusion at a separate company led to the supply chain attack on 3CX that was disclosed last month, investigators said.

Supply Chain Security

GitHub Launches Private Bug Reporting, Package Provenance Features

GitHub is launching two new features that enable developers to create a private vulnerability reporting channel and provide provenance attestations for their packages.

Github, Supply Chain Security

APT28 Exploiting Old Flaw to Install Jaguar Tooth Malware

The Russian APT28 group is exploiting a six-year-old vulnerability in some Cisco IOS and IOS XE router software to install malware known as Jaguar Tooth.

Malware, Russia

Tech Companies Unveil New Hacking Policy Council, Legal Defense Fund for Researchers

Google, Luta Security, Bugcrowd and other companies have started a new hacking Policy Council and Security Research Legal Defense Fund to help security researchers work more safely.

Google, Government