Heat, Kelso and the Hacker Mindset
In the 1995 classic Heat, the character Kelso is an old-school hacker with a background as a DARPA scientist who uses his
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.
In the 1995 classic Heat, the character Kelso is an old-school hacker with a background as a DARPA scientist who uses his
Europol and other agencies disrupted several major malware families, including IcedID, Bymblebess, Trickbot, and Smokeloader in an
Securing AI systems and LLMs seems like a daunting task, but experts say the same principles that apply to software security can
The Russian APT known as COLDRIVER is using a new backdoor called SPICA in phishing campaigns against NGOs and governments.
A new phishing campaign by a subset of the Iranian threat group Mint Sandstorm is targeting universities and research organizations with custom backdoors.
An unidentified APT group is actively exploiting the two recently disclosed Ivanti Pulse Secure and Connect Secure vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887).
Threat actors are targeting a critical flaw in the Apache OFBiz platform that was disclosed in late December.
James Doggett, CISO of Semperis and a longtime executive in the financial and insurance industries, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his career arc and the challenges of being a CISO in today's highly scrutinized and pressure-filled environment.