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
Google Rolls Out Support for Passkeys in Android and Chrome
Google is rolling out support for passkeys in Android and Chrome in a significant step toward passwordless authentication.
New Alchimist C2 Framework Emerges
Researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered a new all-in-one C2 framework called Alchimist that has implants called Insekt for Windows and Linux.
Hardcoded Private Key Leads to Full Control of Some Siemens PLCs
A newly discovered flaw (CVE-2022-38465) in some Siemens S7 PLCs can allow an attacker to extract the hardcoded private key of the controller and gain complete control.
Decipher Podcast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade
Dennis Fisher talks with Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, senior director at SentinelLabs, about the investigation into the new Metador APT group that he and his colleagues unveiled at LabsCon recently.
Bumblebee Loader Evolves to Drop New Payloads
The Bumblebee malware loader is delivering separate payloads for different machines and using new evasion techniques.