Backdoor Found in Webmin Utility
Last year, an attacker was able to compromise the build system used for Webmin development and inserted a backdoor into the...
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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
Project Zero Wants You To Help Make 0-Day Hard
The Google Project Zero team is encouraging public attack research teams to form a coalition to collaborate and share data.
Ill Communication: Improving Security By Talking It Out
Improving communication between security teams and the rest of the organization can greatly improve an enterprise's security...
Persistent Cookies Can Prove Troublesome for AWS
A researcher found that some AWS authentication cookies remain valid for up to 12 hours even after a user has changed the password and logged out.
Deciphering Spy Game
Zoe Lindsey, Dennis Fisher and Pete Baker break down the espionage classic Spy Game.
Privacy Group Asks FTC to Investigate Zoom
EPIC, a privacy rights organization, has filed a complaint asking the FTC to look into Zoom's actions after the disclosure of several vulnerabilities in its Mac client.
Apple Removes Zoom Web Server From Macs
Zoom executives promise to improve their security response process as Apple pushes a silent update to remove the Zoom web server from Macs.
Zoom Bug Allowed Access to Mac Webcam
A vulnerability in the Zoom client for Macs allowed an attacker to force a victim join a meeting with video enabled.