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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
Dennis Fisher talks with Rich Mogull, Mike Rothman, David Mortman and Adrian Lane about the merger of Securosis and Security Incite, the need for better metrics in security and improving security research.
There is a new, targeted attack that is going after the Adobe Reader and Acrobat zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed last month. The attack uses a sophisticated JavaScript-based exploit that includes shell code that is just 38 bytes long.
It occurred to me recently that I’ve been covering the security industry for just about 10 years. That’s a long time to be doing anything, and especially to be writing about one topic. But it’s hard to think of something that would have been much more interesting to cover this decade, given the huge change in the amount of attention paid to security and the fascinating cast of characters this industry has.
While the security teams at Microsoft, Mozilla and the other browser vendors continue to work on new defenses and exploit mitigations, the state of the art in attacks is continuing to evolve.
Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Roberts of The 451 Group about the changes that the last decade has brought in computer security, the biggest story of the ‘00s and what the Teens might hold.
Threatpost editor Dennis Fisher talks about the implications of Howard Schmidt’s appointment, the story of the year in 2009 and what 2010 might bring for security.
Microsoft is investigating reports of a new zero-day vulnerability in its IIS Web server software, and says that the flaw is a problem mainly on servers that are poorly configured.
It’s been little more than 24 hours since President Obama named Howard Schmidt his White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, but it didn’t take nearly that long for just about everyone with any interest in security to line up on one side or the other of the “he has no chance/he’ll save the Internet” line.
At first glance, the selection of Howard A. Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator looks like little more than a safe and easy choice designed to quiet the critics who for seven months have been howling for action from the Obama administration. But a closer look shows that Schmidt’s appointment may in fact be a milestone in the government’s handling of information security issues.
Dennis Fisher talks with Mike Mimoso, editorial director of the Security Media Group at TechTarget, about Howard Schmidt’s appointment, the top security stories of 2009 and the World Cup draw.
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