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
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.
Risk management is not one of humanity's strong points, but we can learn some lessons from our own real life experiences to apply
As software systems have become ever more complex, the opportunity for security researchers to show their value has grown, as
FIN7 is a highly active and capable cybercrime group also known as Carbanak that has been evolving and using its own tools such as
Apple has patched three bugs in iOS and macOS that have been exploited by attackers.
Oracle has pushed an emergency patch for CVE-2020-14750, a remotely exploitable flaw in its WebLogic application server.
A windows kernel bug (CVE-2020-17087) is being used in active targeted attacks alongside a recently fixed Chrome bug.
Jeremy Kennelly of Mandiant joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the spike in ransomware infections in health care organizations and how ransomware operators are evolving their tactics.
The Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) vulnerability is continuing to draw attention from attackers and Microsoft is urging enterprises to patch immediately.