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Dennis Fisher

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Dennis 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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1182 articles by Dennis Fisher

Wyden Pushes FCC For Answers on SS7 Security

Sen. Ron Wyden wants answers from the FCC on cellular network breaches and security.

Government, Mobile

Spectre Forces New Defensive Approaches

The Spectre and Meltdown hardware bugs have pushed vendors such as Google to rethink how they deploy defenses.

Spectre, Hardware Hacking

Roll With the New: Continuous Security Delivery

Capsule8 is working to change the way enterprises think about attack detection and response.

Network Security

Facebook Simplifies 2FA Process for Users

Facebook has changed the way people can use two-factor authentication to protect their accounts, adding authenticator apps.

Facebook, 2fa

Time, and the LØpht, March On

Twenty years after their famous Senate hearing, four members of the L0pht hacker group came together this week to talk about where things stand.

L0pht