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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.
This week saw a blessed lack of major vulnerabilities, but there was plenty of other news to dig into. We discuss the fallout from the AWS outage (0:36), the conclusions from the latest Cyberspace Solarium Commission report (4:37), and the effects of CISA’s shakeup on the private sector (14:07), and the continued effects of the F5 incident […]
The suspected objective of the Lazarus group was the exfiltration of proprietary information and manufacturing expertise, particularly pertaining to UAV technology.
Mitch, there’s something you need to know. Compared to you, most people have the IQ of a carrot. Real Genius has it all: ’80s movie icon Val Kilmer at his coolest, a brilliant hacker named Laszlo living in a closet, a giant space laser, and the absolute embodiment of the hacker ethos. Join us as we […]
"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons."
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
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.
