Humans Are Bad at Risk Assessment, and Other Stories
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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
Experts Urge Tighter Focus on Critical Infrastructure Security
ICS and operational technology experts told Congress Tuesday that adversaries' focus on critical infrastructure attacks requires a better focus on the security of these networks by defenders and regulators.
Decipher Podcast: Gary McGraw on AI Security
Software security and AI security expert Gary McGraw joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the findings of a new AI architectural risk analysis research paper that his Berryville Institute of Machine Learning did on LLMs, the risks of black box models, and what kind of regulation would be most effective at reducing those risks.
U.S. Leaders Warn of Chinese Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
The Department of Justice has disrupted an attack campaign by Chinese state-sponsored attackers on U.S. critical infrastrucutre and says that country's targeting of civilian resources is a "low blow".
Decipher Podcast: Kevin Tian and Rahul Madduluri
Kevin Tian and Rahhul Madduluri, co-founders of Doppel, join Dennis Fisher to discuss the emerging threats of AI-enabled phishing and brand impersonation and how AI can also be used to detect and stop these attacks.
For AI Risk, ‘The Real Answer Has to be Regulation’
The development and deployment of AI systems based on LLMs includes many inherent risks and should be regulated, and soon, experts say.