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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: Sarah Powazek

Sarah Powazek, the Program Director of Public Interest Cybersecurity at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her work in setting up Cybersecurity Clinics at high education institutions around the country to help bring knowledge and skills to underserved organizations.

Podcast

Google Fixes Another Chrome Zero Day

Google has patched yet another Chrome zero day, this one a type confusion flaw in V8 (CVE-2024-5274).

Google

Decipher Podcast: Caitlin Condon on the Attack Intelligence Report

Caitlin Condon of Rapid7 joins Dennis Fisher to dive into the juicy tidbits from the Rapid7 Attack iNtelligence Report, including the rise in attacks on zero days, ransomware proliferation, and why network edge devices remain a major problem.

Podcast

Kimsuky APT Using Newly Discovered Gomir Linux Backdoor

The North Korean Kimsuky APT group has been using a new Linux backdoor called Gomir in attacks on South Korean targets.

North Korea

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 be used to build safe AI systems.

AI, RSA Conference