For AI and Security, ‘The Storm is Coming’
Technology moves quickly, and as we’re discovering yet again, threat actors move just as quickly, and are adopting AI tools and platforms at an astonishing rate.
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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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RSA 2026 Preview
With the RSA Conference on the horizon, Dennis and Lindsey are here with a preview of the conference’s more interesting sessions and keynotes, a discussion of the recent and ancient history of the conference, and a quick game: Is this a security vendor or a prescription drug name?
Mark Watney Is a Space Hacker in The Martian
Sure, space pirate is a cool title, but what about space hacker? Way cooler! With the imminent release of Project Hail Mary, Wendy Nather joins Dennis Fisher to dig into the nutrient-rich narrative soil that produced a modern classic that truly epitomizes the hacker ethos. We are the greatest podcasters on Mars!
Mark Watney: Space Hacker
Wendy Nather joins Dennis Fisher to dig into the nutrient-rich narrative soil that produced a modern classic that truly epitomizes the hacker ethos. We are the greatest podcasters on Mars!
EU Sanctions Iranian and Chinese Companies for Targeting Member Nations
The new sanctions list includes two China-based technology companies, two of their co-founders, and an Iranian firm, all implicated in a range of attacks from corporate espionage and critical infrastructure disruption to disinformation campaigns.
Fancy Tools From Fancy Bear, Another Proxy Network Takedown, and A Look Ahead
This week’s news includes a reappearance by an old favorite, APT28, aka Fancy Bear, which is back with some nasty new implants and tools it is deploying against targets in Ukraine (2:10), and we also have another law enforcement disruption of a residential proxy network, this one known as SocksEscort, which had victims all over […]