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
New Tool Detects Indicators of Compromise for Citrix Systems
Citrix and FireEye Mandiant have released a scanner that can detect some indicators of compromise related to the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability.
Unpatched IE Vulnerability Under Active Attack
A new Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2020-0674) is being used in targeted attacks and Microsoft does not have a patch available right now.
Kubernetes Launches Bug Bounty
Kubernetes has launched a public bug bounty program with support from Google.
Citrix ADC Exploits Appear With No Patch Available Yet
Exploits for the CVE-2019-19781 Citrix ADC vulnerability are available on GitHub while patches are still a week away.
‘We Can’t Be Complacent’ About the Crypto Debate
The encryption debate is as old as the Internet, and Jennifer Granick warns that giving ground now could have serious long-term effects.