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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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Decipher Podcast: Ron Deibert

Ron Deibert of Citizen Lab joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his team's work on investigating surveillance vendors and helping victims.

Podcast

US Government Has Stopped Warrantless Collection of Phone Data

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that the government has stopped collecting phone location data using Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

Privacy, Government

New Variant of ZombieLoad Bypasses Intel Mitigations

Security researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria discovered the fixes for the ZombieLoad speculative execution attacks on Intel processors were not completely effective. The researchers have disclosed a new variant that works on Intel processors that have hardware mitigations in place.

Hardware, Intel

Decipher Podcast: Chris Wysopal

Chris Wysopal of Veracode joins Dennis Fisher to dive into the company's new State of Software Security report.

L0pht, Podcast

Microsoft Warns of Possible Further BlueKeep Exploits

BlueKeep exploits have been seen installing a cryptominer, but Microsoft is warning customers that more damaging attacks could be coming.

Microsoft