IBM Warns of Critical Auth Bypass Bug in API Connect
IBM published updates for the affected versions of API Connect on Jan. 2., and urged organizations to update affected versions as soon as possible.
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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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The Hacker Movie Canon: Die Hard
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The Enduring Hacker Legacy of Heat
It was 30 years ago this week that Michael Mann's masterpiece Heat hit theaters like a semi T-boning an armored car. In addition to being a masterful heist movie and insightful depiction of the toll that obsession can exact, Heat is also a criminally underrated hacker movie.