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
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Securing AI systems and LLMs seems like a daunting task, but experts say the same principles that apply to software security can
Time, and the LØpht, March On
Twenty years after their famous Senate hearing, four members of the L0pht hacker group came together this week to talk about where things stand.
YubiKeys Now Work With iOS
Yubico has released an SDK that will enable iOS app developers to support hardware-based 2FA.
The Business of America is Surveillance
The FCC is looking into a website flaw that allowed the real-time tracking of anyone with just a mobile phone number.
Google Puts Plaintext HTTP Out to Pasture
Google Chrome will mark all HTTP pages as not secure in the coming months, a major milestone in the overdue death of plaintext connections.
Cybersecurity Czar Job to Remain Vacant
The White House plans to leave the cybersecurity coordinator job open, while lawmakers have introduced a bill to establish a new cybersecurity office.