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...
Firefox 0-Day Used to Deliver Netwire Mac Malware
A new vulnerability in Firefox has been used in targeted attacks, one of which has delivered the Netwire OS X malware.
Seeking Validation in a Hostile World
The domain control validation process relies on protocols and systems that are susceptible to compromise, so Cloudflare is hoping to fix that with a new service that validates certificates from multiple points.
The League of Entropy Forms to Offer Acts of Public Randomness
Cloudflare and several other members have formed the League of Entropy to offer a quorum of public randomness beacons.
New Echobot Malware Adds Exploits, Targets Enterprise Apps
A newly discovered version of the Echobot malware, which is tied to the Mirai botnet, contains eight new exploits and targets enterprise applications as well as consumer devices.
Application Attacks Rule the Web
Akamai's State of the Internet security report shows that SQL injection attacks make up more than two-thirds of application layer attacks against organizations.