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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

Cloudflare Makes InterPlanetary File System Globally Accessible

Cloudflare has released a gateway and browser extension to make the distributed IPFS network easily and securely accessible.

Encryption

Senators Question Lack of MFA at State Department

Five lawmakers have asked the Secretary of State for answers about his agency's failure to implement MFA despite a federal requirement to do so.

2fa

BA Breach Another Step in Magecart Group’s Evolution

The attack group known as Magecart has been stealing payment information from sites for several years and is showing signs of maturation with the BA breach.

Data Breaches, Magecart

Decipher Podcast: Richard Bejtlich

Security strategist, adviser, and author Richard Bejtlich joins the podcast to talk about the evolution of incident response and how the security community has changed over the last 20 years.

Podcast

IoT Botnets Turn Attention to Enterprises

The Mirai and Gafgyt IoT botnets recently have begun adding exploits for vulnerabilities in enterprise products.

Apache