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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
U.S. Forms Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to Disrupt Ransomware Payments
The Department of Justice has formed a new National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to help disrupt ransomware payments to...
Device Security is ‘The Big Hairy Monster Under the Bed’
The security of IoT and non-general purpose computing devices represents a systemic risk to corporate and national security,...
GitHub Drops Passwords in Favor of 2FA
GitHub has eliminated support for passwords for Git operations and now requires the use of a hardware security key or other strong 2FA option.
Multiple Flaws in Realtek SDK Affect Wide Range of IoT Devices
Several vulnerabilities in the Realtek SDK expose millions of IoT devices to remote code execution.
Vice Society Ransomware Actors Target PrintNightmare
A newer ransomware group known as Vice Society is targeting the PrintNightmare vulnerabilities in some of its intrusions now.
New TA505 Campaign Uses Signed Files to Drop ServHelper Malware
TA505, a well-known cybercrime group, is using signed MSI files and other techniques to install the ServHelper RAT on victims' systems.
Attackers Scanning for Exchange Servers Vulnerable to ProxyShell
Details of the ProxyShell Exchange server flaws are now public and attackers have begun scanning the Internet for vulnerable servers.