Humans Are Bad at Risk Assessment, and Other Stories
Risk management is not one of humanity's strong points, but we can learn some lessons from our own real life experiences to apply
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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
Software Has Eaten the World But There’s Still Hope
As software systems have become ever more complex, the opportunity for security researchers to show their value has grown, as
Digging Into FIN7’s Latest Tools and Tactics
FIN7 is a highly active and capable cybercrime group also known as Carbanak that has been evolving and using its own tools such as
Change Healthcare Says Attackers Accessed PHI and PII
The ransomware attack on Change Healthcare included the theft of PHI and PII, the company said.
Russian Group Forest Blizzard Deploying GooseEgg Tool to Exploit CVE-2022-38028
A Russian threat group known as Forest Blizzard has been using a custom tool called GooseEgg to exploit a Windows Print Spooler (CVE-2022-38028) for several years.
UK Police Take Down LabHost Phishing Service
Europol and a collection of UK law enforcement agencies have disrupted the LabHost phishing platform, which targeted victims globally.
Decipher Podcast: Cody Stokes
Cody Stokes, a security leader at Procellis Technology, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about his time in the Marine Corps, the challenges of breaking into the cybersecurity field, and the fulfillment he gets from helping to protect users.
Critical Crypto Bug Fixed in PuTTY
Many versions of the PuTTY client have a weakness that can generate biased ECDSA nonces and enable an attacker to eventually recover private encryption keys.