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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

China-Based Actors Using Log4Shell Bug for Ransomware Deployment

Threat actors known as DEV-0401 based in China are exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability to deploy the NightSky ransomware.

Log4j

Researchers Find Log4Shell Type Flaw in H2 Database Console

Researchers have found a Log4Shell-like flaw in the H2 database console, which allows remote code execution.

Log4j

Attacks Target Log4j Bug in VMware Horizon

An unknown threat group is exploiting the Log4j vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to install webshells for further malicious activity.

Log4j, Vmware

Decipher Podcast: 2021 Year in Review

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch and Dennis Fisher look back on a wild year in cybersecurity and discuss the ongoing ransomware problem, the increase in zero days used in the wild, our favorite stories and podcasts of the year, and more.

Podcast

Deciphering Die Hard 2

Zoe Lindsey, Pete Baker, and Dennis Fisher sit down to talk about Die Hard 2, the forgotten member of the Die Hard series, which is not a Christmas movie. It is, however, a movie with a lot of great hacking and social engineering scenes, and Bruce Willis spewing one-liners like a 1950s standup comic.

Hacker Movies, Podcast