Apple Lockdown Mode ‘First Step Toward Mainstreaming Better Protections’
The new Lockdown Mode that will be in iOS 16 this fall will disable many features used to target at-risk users with commercial...
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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
Java Crypto Bug Allows Forging of Signatures, Certificates
A critical bug in Java's implementation of ECDSA (CVE-2022-21449) can allow an attacker to forge a signature or certificate to...
Government Needs to be ‘Postured for the Future’ of Cyber Threats
The U.S. government and military is looking to attract and retain more talented cyber operators to keep pace with the evolving...
CISA Warns of Karakurt Extortion Group
The Karakurt data extortion group is stealing sensitive information from enterprises and holding it for ransom, CISA warns.
Exploits Target Zero Day in Windows and Office
A zero day flaw (CVE-2022-30190) in Windows and Office is under active attack and MIcrosoft has not issued a patch yet.
Cisco Patches Serious Flaw in IOS
Cisco has patched a flaw in IOS XR that can allow an attacker to write arbitrary files to the Redis instance.
QNAP Warns of Deadbolt Ransomware Targeting NAS Devices
QNAP is urging customers to remove NAS devices from the Internet amid a new wave of Deadbolt ransomware intrusions.
NVIDIA Fixes Serious Flaws in GPU Driver
NVIDIA has released an update to fix a number of serious code-execution flaws in its GPU display driver that could be used to perform guest-to-host escapes.