Number of SolarWinds Orion Servers Online Rising Post-Breach
The number of SolarWinds Orion servers online is rising in the past week, possibly a result of misconfigurations as customers...
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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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Decipher Library: Holiday Edition
The editors of Decipher have put together a list of books, technical and otherwise, you can enjoy during a well-deserved...
Flaw in GRUB 2 Boot Loader Threatens Many Linux Systems
A buffer overflow (CVE-2020-10713) in the GRUB 2 boot loader can allow an attacker to gain code execution on many Linux systems...
U.S. Sanctions Russian Institute for Triton Malware
The Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sanctions against a Russian research institute for deploying the Triton ICS malware.
Energetic Bear Attackers Targeting US Government Agencies
A Russian threat group known as Energetic Bear has compromised some state and local government agencies in recent weeks.
Decipher Podcast: Kurtis Minder
Kurtis Minder, CEO of GroupSense, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the delicate process of ransomware negotiations and how enterprises are dealing with infections today.
Google Patches Bug Used in Active Attacks Against Chrome
Google has fixed a flaw in the FreeType library that attackers are attempting to exploit against Chrome users.
Trickbot Up to Its Old Tricks
Days after a takedown operation, the Trickbot botnet is back up and running with new C2 servers in Europe and South America.