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
CircleCI Warns Customers to Rotate Secrets After Security Incident
CircelCI said it is investigating a security incident and warned customers to rotate all of the secrets stored in the service.
Fortinet Fixes Serious Flaw in FortiADC
Fortinet has patched a serious bug (CVE-2022-39947) in its FortiADC application delivery controllers.
Deciphering Home Alone
Kevin McCallister may not be a hacker or even own a computer (as far as we know), but no one embodies the hacker ethic better than he does, an eight-year-old boy left alone at Christmas who is forced to use his imagination and creativity to defend a prime target and lure his adversaries into his trap. This is Deciphering Home Alone.
Play Ransomware Group Using New ProxyNotShell Exploit
Play ransomware actors have been using a previously undocumented exploitation method for the ProxyNotShell Exchange flaws.
Q&A: Andy Greenberg
Andy Greenberg, author and journalist at Wired, recently joined Dennis Fisher on the Decipher podcast to discuss his new book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, which tells the stories of the people who hunted the operators of several major dark web markets.