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
Rather Than Measuring Risk, Fix an Interesting Problem
Measuring risk is a notoriously hard task, so Andy Ellis suggests teams focus on fixing the problems in fornt of them instead of trying to measure what could happen.
F5 Fixes Critical RCE Bugs in BIG-IP Next Central Manager
F5 has patched two vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-26026 and CVE-2024-21793) in its BIG-IP Next Central Manager console that can grant full admin control of the target application.
‘Zero Day Piled on Zero Day’
Edge devices have become the go-to targets for cybercriminals and state actors, and experts say that will continue for the foreseeable future.
To Fix IoT Security, ‘We Need to Aim at the Security Have-Nots’
The IoT security landscape is grim, but private sector and government experts are trying to improve things through advocacy and collaboration.
Attacker Accessed Dropbox Sign User Authentication Data in Recent Intrusion
An unknown attacker compromised a customer database for Dropbox Sign and accessed authentication information such as OAuth tokens and MFA data.