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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.
“You know, you really don’t need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.” Melanie Ensign joins Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch to discuss David Fincher’s massively successful 2010 film, The Social Network, a movie that opens a window into the […]
The chain of discovery began with Amazon's security honeypot service, MadPot, which detected exploitation attempts for the Citrix Bleed Two vulnerability (CVE-2025-5777) before its public disclosure
There are plenty of challenges and pitfalls for security teams looking to deploy AI tools and Zadig said Yahoo is taking a measured, careful approach. This is a condensed and edited portion of our discussion.
Yahoo CISO and Chief Paranoid Sean Zadig returns to the podcast for a discussion with Dennis Fisher about how to go about getting kids interested in technology and teaching them about hacking (in the broad, classical sense) safely (9:10). Then they talk about how rapidly the cybersecurity industry is changing and what effects AI is and is […]
We don’t do holiday themed episodes in this house, so no tricks, but we have some treats for you. First we discuss the problem of shadow AI (1:00) and how it seems like we’re just repeating the mistakes of previous tech waves in ignoring security until it’s too late. Then we dig into a new […]
For many organizations, the biggest potential risk that arises from the use of AI tools is the leakage or mishandling of sensitive data.
