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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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Code Execution Flaws Found in F5 BIG-IP Appliances

Rapid7 researchers discovered two code execution flaws in several versions of the F5 BIG-IP appliances.

F5

Decipher Podcast: Dan Lorenc

Dan Lorenc, CEO and founder of Chainguard, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about supply chain security, asset inventory, Sigstore, and the challenges of helping developers write more secure code.

Podcast, Supply Chain Security

Resilience Seen as a Key to Critical Infrastructure Security

Attackers are focusing their attention on critical infrastructure operators, and building resilience into those networks is a key to defending them, experts say.

Government, Critical Infrastructure

GitHub Launches Private Vulnerability Reporting

GitHub has launched a new feature that enables researchers to privately report vulnerabilities to repository maintainers.

Github

Lenovo Patches BIOS Flaws That Lead to Secure Boot Modification

Lenovo has patched three vulnerabilities in the BIOS in many of its laptops that could allow an attacker to modify the secure boot process.

BIOS