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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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1130 articles by Dennis Fisher

Exploits Circulating for Windows MSHTML Zero Day

Some proof-of-concept exploits have begun circulating for CVE-2021-40444 and no patch is yet available.

Microsoft, Vulnerability

Attackers Exploiting Critical Flaw in Zoho Password Management Tool

Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass flaw in Zoho's ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus password management app.

Vulnerability

Decipher Podcast: Amélie Koran

Amélie Koran joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her start in computing with a Commodore 64, her early years in the private sector, and her security and policy work in several federal government agencies.

Podcast

Microsoft Warns of Attacks on Windows MSHTML Zero Day

Attackers are exploiting a new zero day flaw in Windows (CVE-2021-40444) in targeted attacks.

Microsoft

Slow Uptake on Critical Confluence Update

New data shows that enterprises are not updating their Confluence instances to address a critical code execution flaw.

Atlassian, Vulnerabilities