‘Drive It Like You Stole It’: When Bug Bounties Went Boom, Part Three
During Barack Obama's second term, some top administration officials began looking at bounties as a potential way to jump-start...
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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
Uprising in the Valley: When Bug Bounties Went Boom, Part Two
Following the success of the bounty programs started by companies such as iDefense, Zero Day Initiative, and Mozilla,...
Fundamental Flaw in RNGs Affects Many IoT Devices
The use of weak random number generators in many IoT devices undermines the security of the encryption keys those devices...
‘Imagination Makes Us Better Hackers’
CISA Director Jen Easterly said the agency's new Joint Cuber Defense Collaborative seeks imagination and innovation in the hacker community to help secure critical infrastructure.
Supply Chain Security: ‘The Government Is Not Going to Fix This’
At Black Hat, Matt Tait of Corellium said the supply chain security problem may get far worse if platform providers don't step in to address it.
Whole of Government Effort, Collaboration Needed to Disrupt Ransomware
A whole of government approach, along with collaboration from the private sector, is key to disrupting the ransomware ecosystem.
Decipher Podcast: Jules Okafor
Jules Okafor, CEO of RevolutionCyber, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her unconventional career arc, the importance of empathy in leadership and communications, and why conventional security awareness programs don't work.
Biden Moves to Reinforce Critical Infrastructure Security
A new National Security Memorandum from President Biden sets performance goals for critical infrastructure security and creates a new CI security initiative.