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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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Dashboard Act Would Force Companies to Tell Users What Their Data is Worth

The DASHBOARD Act, introduced in the Senate Monday, would require social media companies to tell people what the economic value of their personal data is.

Government, Privacy

Dell Patches Bug in Powerful SupportAssist Utility

Dell has fixed a serious bug in the SupportAssist utility that is preinstalled on millions of PCs and could give an attacker control of a target machine.

Vulnerability

Firefox 0-Day Used to Deliver Netwire Mac Malware

A new vulnerability in Firefox has been used in targeted attacks, one of which has delivered the Netwire OS X malware.

Firefox

Seeking Validation in a Hostile World

The domain control validation process relies on protocols and systems that are susceptible to compromise, so Cloudflare is hoping to fix that with a new service that validates certificates from multiple points.

DNS Security

The League of Entropy Forms to Offer Acts of Public Randomness

Cloudflare and several other members have formed the League of Entropy to offer a quorum of public randomness beacons.

Cryptography