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...
Pandemic-Related Malware Activity Falling Off
Malware and phishing campaigns preying on interest in the COVID-19 crisis have spiked but are now falling off in many places.
Intel to Add Hardware Defense Against Subtle Attacks
Intel's new Control-Flow Enforcement Technology will be built into its forthcoming Tiger Lake processors and integrated with Windows 10.
FBI Warns of Increase in Banking Trojan Attacks
The FBI is warning of a potential spike in mobile banking app attacks resulting from a drop in the number of people visiting physical bank branches.
Critical Flaw Patched in Windows SMB
Microsoft fixed a critical remote code execution flaw in the SMBv1 protocol in many of the current Windows versions.
Into the Great Wide Open With CVE-2020-0688
Hundreds of thousands of Exchange servers are still vulnerable to a dangerous flaw (CVE-2020-0688) four months after Microsoft released a patch for it.