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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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CISA Warns of Attacks on UPS Devices

CISA is warning enterprises about ongoing attacks against Internet-connected UPS devices and encouraging them to change default credentials and enforce MFA.

CISA, Iot Security

Urgent Update for Chrome Fixes Zero Day Under Attack

Google has patched a zero day in the V8 engine in Chrome that is under active attack.

Google

Azure Developers Targeted By Malicious NPM Packages

A recent campaign targeted Azure developers with malicious npm packages designed to look like legitimate tools.

Supply Chain

U.S. Indicts Four Russians Allegedly Behind Triton and Dragonfly Attacks

The U.S. has indicted four Russians it alleges are affiliated with the FSB and GRU units responsible for the Triton and Dragonfly attacks against critical infrastructure in the United States and abroad.

Russia

Okta Says Small Percentage of Customers Affected by Breach

The Lapsus$ hacking and extortion group claims to have had access to internal Okta systems since January, but the company said it looked into the incident at a third party and it was contained.

Okta, Data Breaches