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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

U.S. Blocks Exports to NSO Group, Other Firms Over National Security Concerns

The Commerce Department added NSO Group, Candiru, Positive Technologies, and COSEINC to its Entity List, restricting exports of software and hardware to them.

Government, Spyware

Firefox 94 Adds Site Isolation to Mitigate Side-Channel Attacks

Mozilla has added site isolation to Firefox 94 to defend against side-channel attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown.

Firefox

International Task Force Disrupts European Ransomware Operation

A task force of European and U.S. agencies arrested 12 suspects in Switzerland and Ukraine as part of an action against a ransomware operation.

Ransomware

Apple Fixes Slew of Bugs in iOS, macOS

Apple has fixed more than 20 vulnerabilities in iOS 15.1 and macOS Monterey 12.01.

Apple

Nation-State Attackers Sharpen Focus on Governments, NGOs

New data from Microsoft shows that Nobelium, Thallium, and other nation-state attack groups are increasingly focusing on government agencies and NGOs.

Microsoft, Malware