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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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1118 articles by Dennis Fisher

Decipher Podcast: John Hammond

John Hammond of Huntress joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the critical Log4j vulnerability, the community response, and the potential long-term effects of the bug.

Podcast

Q&A: Wade Baker and Ben Edwards

Wade Baker and Ben Edwards of Cyentia Institute discuss the design and analysis of the data from the Cisco Security Outcomes Study.

Data Science

Emotet Shifts Gears, Drops Cobalt Strike Directly

New versions of Emotet have been dropping Cobalt Strike beacons directly, rather than relying on intermediate payloads such as Trickbot.

Emotet, Trickbot

Decipher Podcast: Wade Baker and Ben Edwards

Wade Baker and Ben Edwards of the Cyentia Institute join Dennis Fisher to discuss the process of designing and interpreting the data from the Cisco Security Outcomes study, what surprised them from the data, and how organizations can use the study.

Podcast, Data Science

Google Disrupts Massive Glupteba Botnet

Google has taken down servers associated with the huge Glupteba botnet and also sued two alleged operators of the network.

Google, Botnet