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
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Dennis Fisher
Editor in ChiefDennis 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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Featured Articles
Operation Endgame Targets Trickbot, IcedID, Other Botnets in Huge Disruption
Europol and other agencies disrupted several major malware families, including IcedID, Bymblebess, Trickbot, and Smokeloader in an
AI Security ‘Is a Software Problem’
Securing AI systems and LLMs seems like a daunting task, but experts say the same principles that apply to software security can
Decipher Library: Holiday Edition 2023
Our annual holiday book recommendation guide is here to help you discover what to read during your holiday downtime.
Decipher Podcast: Feross Aboukhadijeh
Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder and CEO of Socket, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the challenges of securing open-source projects, supply chain security, and the fragility of the open-source software ecosystem.
New Initiative Seeks to Bring Collaboration to AI Security
The new AI Safety Initiative from the Cloud Security Alliance involves Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI in an effort to build a collaborative framework for AI security.
Apache Fixes Critical Struts Flaw
The Apache Software Foundation has released updates to address a critical file upload vulnerability (CVE-2023-50164) in Struts.
ColdFusion Exploit Used to Access Federal Agency
In two separate intrusions, attackers exploited a ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2023-26360) to compromise an unnamed federal government agency.