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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

U.S. Forms Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to Disrupt Ransomware Payments

The Department of Justice has formed a new National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to help disrupt ransomware payments to cybercriminals.

Ransomware, Governance

Apache Fixes Web Server Path Traversal Flaw Under Active Attack

Apache has released a fix for a path traversal flaw (CVE-2021-41773) that has been exploited in the wild.

Apache

New ESPecter UEFI Bootkit Discovered

Researchers have discovered a new UEFI bootkit called ESPecter that can modify the Windows Boot Manager.

Malware, UEFI

Fear of Pegasus Spyware Used to Spread Sarwent RAT

The fear surrounding the Pegasus spyware tool is being used to lure victims to a fake Amnesty International site that installs the Sarwent RAT.

Malware

Device Security is ‘The Big Hairy Monster Under the Bed’

The security of IoT and non-general purpose computing devices represents a systemic risk to corporate and national security, experts say.

Government, Iot Security