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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

Microsoft Warns of Attacks on Windows MSHTML Zero Day

Attackers are exploiting a new zero day flaw in Windows (CVE-2021-40444) in targeted attacks.

Microsoft

Slow Uptake on Critical Confluence Update

New data shows that enterprises are not updating their Confluence instances to address a critical code execution flaw.

Atlassian, Vulnerabilities

‘Drive It Like You Stole It’: When Bug Bounties Went Boom, Part Three

During Barack Obama's second term, some top administration officials began looking at bounties as a potential way to jump-start the effort to upgrade federal government's security programs. The idea was a radical one, so they decided to start slowly, by hacking the Pentagon.

Bug Bounty

Decipher Podcast: Zoe Lindsey

Dennis Fisher talks with Zoe Lindsey, one of the early Duo Security employees, about her entrance into hacker culture, finding her way in the tech world, and the importance of lifelong learning.

Podcast

Uprising in the Valley: When Bug Bounties Went Boom, Part Two

Following the success of the bounty programs started by companies such as iDefense, Zero Day Initiative, and Mozilla, technology companies and platform providers began rolling out bounties of their own. Among the big players to enter the game were Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and eventually, Microsoft.

Bug Bounty