Why WarGames is Still Predicting the Future 40 Years Later
WarGames may be 42 years old but its prescience about our current technocracy and race to take humans out of the loop is as clear as ever
Author Bio
Dennis Fisher
Editor
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.
Featured Articles
Breaking Down the F5 Breach
In the wake of the disclosure of a serious intrusion at F5 that reportedly lasted about a year, we talk about the details of the disclosure, the potential link to Chinese state actors, the fallout from the attackers’ access to source code and bug reports, and what this could mean in the long term.
AI Attack and Defense With Adam Meyers and Elia Zaitsev of CrowdStrike
Have you heard about this AI thing? It’s wild. Turns out, attackers are using it for all kinds of things we’d rather not have them doing. Dennis Fisher is joined by two experts from CrowdStrike–Adam Meyers, head of counter adversary operations, and Elia Zaitsev, CTO–to talk about how both defenders and attackers are leveraging AI […]
F5: Attacker Accessed BIG-IP Source Code, Bug Data
The company discovered the intrusion in August but did not say when the attackers first gained access to F5’s systems or how long they had access.
More Cl0p Clues and Huge Apple Bug Bounty Changes
This week brings some new insights into the origins and length of the Cl0p extortion attacks tied to the Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability, big surges in scanning for Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, and Fortinet devices, and a huge upgrade to Apple bug bounty payouts.
Data Connects Scanning Surges for Cisco, Fortinet, PAN Devices
Researchers say that all three campaigns are being driven at least in part by one threat actor.