Data Shows Thousands of Automatic Tank Gauges Exposed Across the US
As of May 2026, over 6,502 ATG services running on 6,057 unique hosts were found to be reachable on the public internet across more than 65 countries.
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Dennis Fisher
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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
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Solving Hard Security Problems With an Outsider’s Perspective | Sravish Sridhar
Unlike a lot of founders in the industry, Sravish Sridhar hasn’t spent his career in the security world. He comes from a background in distributed computing and advanced math, and is a successful entrepreneur who’s now bringing that experience to bear at TrustCloud, where he’s helping CISOs automate and streamline their compliance programs.
AI Has a Security Measurement Problem | Gary McGraw
Few people (if any) have spent more time thinking about and working on the hard problems in security and software than Gary McGraw, and he also happens to have a PhD in cognitive science and computer science and has been studying neural nets and AI systems for 30+ years. Gary joins Dennis to talk about […]
Ongoing Supply Chain Attack Expands to PyPi
Researchers have linked the compromise to the "Mini Shai-Hulud" campaign, which has been ongoing for several weeks and is associated with TeamPCP.
The Canvas Attack, Ivanti and Palo Alto Exploits, and Dirty Frag
If we needed any more evidence that the internet was a mistake, this week provided it. We kick things off with a discussion of the Canvas breach that has affected thousands of schools worldwide, then we dig into the disclosure of two new vulnerabilities in Ivanti and Palo Alto Networks products that are actively exploited, […]
New Dirty Frag Linux Bug Emerges
The vulnerability class is a potent new iteration of kernel bugs that corrupt the page cache of read-only files and is a follow-on to the recently disclosed Copy Fail Linux LPE bug.