Dennis Fisher

Editor in Chief

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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Featured Articles

Hacker Movies

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

Malware Trickbot

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 RSA Conference

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

1161 articles by Dennis Fisher

Thousands of FortiGate Devices Compromised in Ongoing Campaign

The Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service said it has identified more than 20,000 FortiGate devices that have been compromised by a Chinese state-sponsored threat group.

Fortinet, China

Decipher Podcast: The Microsoft Recall Recall

A few days after Microsoft announced the new AI-enabled Recall feature--generating tremendous concerns and pushback from the security and privacy communities--the company had decided to disable it by default, but many concerns still remain. A month after the company's CEO proclaimed that it would be "prioritizing security above all else", how did this happen?

Podcast, Microsoft

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