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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

Peering Into the VOID for Better Data

The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) provides a collection of reports on software outages, security incidents, and near misses to enable analysis of common causes and resolutions.

Data Science

Collaboration Seen as Key to Defending Critical Infrastructure

Top officials from NSA and CISA say collaborative defense is the key to countering threats to the critical infrastructure.

Government, Ransomware

Flaw in Crypto Library Causes Revocation of SSH Keys for Git Services

A flaw in the keypair library that caused it to generate weak RSA keys for SSH has caused GitHub and other services to revoke many organizations' keys.

Github, Cryptography

Attackers Tied to Iran Targeting Office 365 in Password Spraying Campaign

A new group with ties to the Iranian government is conducting a password-spraying campaign against Office 365 accounts.

Microsoft, Iran

Scanning Activity for Apache Flaw Began Before Public Disclosure

Attackers were scanning for CVE-2021-41773 in the Apache web server several days before the flaw was disclosed publicly.

Apache