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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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White House Adds Three Key Cybersecurity Officials

National Cyber Director Chris Inglis has added three officials to his team, including Kemba Eneas Walden, Rob Knake, and Neal Higgins.

Government, Ransomware

Exploits Emerge for Critical F5 Flaw

Exploits for the critical F5 BIG-IP flaw (CVE-2022-1388) are now circulating online and malicious actors are scanning for it.

F5

GitHub to Require 2FA for All Users

GitHub will require 2FA for all users who contribute code on the platform by the end of 2023.

Github, 2fa

Curl Flaw Could Allow Authentication Bypass

Several versions of curl and the curl library contain a pair of security flaws.

Vulnerability

ProxyShell, Log4J Among Most Commonly Exploited Bugs in 2021

The ProxyShell, Log4J, and Zerologon bugs were among the most commonly exploited ones in 2021, according to a new advisory from the NSA and other agencies.

NSA, Proxyshell