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...
Many Exim Servers Remain Vulnerable to Year-Old Flaw
New data shows that hundreds of thousands of Exim servers are still running versions vulnerable to flaws disclosed and patched last year.
iOS 13.5.1 Fixes Kernel Zero Day
Apple has patched, for the second time, a vulnerability in the iOS kernel that has been used in jailbreak tools.
NSA Warns Russian Attackers are Exploiting Old Exim Flaw
The Sandworm team, associated with the Russian GRU, is exploiting a flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent, the NSA warned in a new advisory.
Decipher Podcast: Alex Pinto
Alex Pinto from Verizon Enterprise joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the findings of the 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report.
OpenSSH Will Deprecate SHA-1
OpenSSH will soon deprecate the use of SHA-1 because of the risk of specific attacks against the algorithm.