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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist who has been covering information security and privacy since 2000. He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, and most of his kids' English papers. Featured Articles Operation Endgame Targets Trickbot, IcedID, Other Botnets in Huge Disruption Europol and other agencies disrupted several major malware families, including IcedID, Bymblebess, Trickbot, and Smokeloader in an operation dubbed Operation Endgame. AI Security 'Is a Software Problem' Securing AI systems and LLMs seems like a daunting task, but experts say the same principles that apply to software security can be applied to securing AI. The Zero Day Piled on Zero Day Edge devices have become the go-to targets for cybercriminals and state actors, and experts say that will continue for the foreseeable future. 1149 articles by Dennis Fisher Critical PHP Flaw CVE-2024-4577 Patched A critical remote code execution bug (CVE-2024-4577) in all versions of PHP on Windows has been patched. The bug also affects all Windows versions of XAMPP. The Challenge of Reporting on Complex Breaches Veteran security journalist and podcaster Ryan Naraine joins the Decipher podcast to discuss the challenges of separating fact from fiction when reporting on complex incidents such as the Snowflake breach. Exploit Attempts Against Check Point CVE-2024-24919 On the Rise Hundreds of separate IP addresses are now trying to exploit the Check Point patch traversal flaw (CVE-2024-24919) that was disclosed last week. Researchers Warn of Potential Abuse of Azure Service Tags Tenable researchers discovered a technique for abusing Azure service tags to bypass firewall rules and Microsoft has issued new guidance for customers. Operation Endgame Targets Trickbot, IcedID, Other Botnets in Huge Disruption Europol and other agencies disrupted several major malware families, including IcedID, Bymblebess, Trickbot, and Smokeloader in an action dubbed Operation Endgame. Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... More