Dennis Fisher sits down with Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle to talk about his entry into entry, his development of the Objective See suite of Mac security tools, the state of Mac malware and his Objective By the Sea conference.

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Dennis Fisher talks with hardware security researcher JoeFitzPatrick at the CanSecWest conference about the challenges of finding and verifying hardware implants and the questions people should ask when these stories emerge.

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There are heist movies, there are hacker movies, and then there's Ocean's Eleven. Blessed with one of the all-time great ensemble casts and an airtight script, Ocean's Eleven combines brilliant social engineering tactics, clever hacking ideas, revenge, greed, and Julia Roberts. This is Deciphering Ocean's Eleven.

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The first Mission: Impossible film gave us so many wonderful gifts: goofy Usenet searches, Apple PowerBook action shots, CIA mainframe hacking, and some great mid-career Tom Cruise running. Before the series turned into a high-stakes, high-budget action franchise, the original film was a fun, sometimes goofy heist story with a vein of technobabble running through it. This is Deciphering Mission: Impossible.

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Dennis Fisher sits down with Fahmida Rashid, Mike Mimoso, and Jessy Irwin at the RSA Conference in San Francisco to talk about the major themes of the conference.

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Dennis Fisher talks with Yonathan Klijnsma of RiskIQ about his new research into Magecart Group 4, the background and tactics of the web skimming group, and how the defender community responds through takedowns and other techniques.

Read the RiskIQ report here.
Read our coverage of Magecart here. 

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Sneakers isn't just one of the best hacker movies of all time, it's one of the best movies ever. Full stop. The tale of a crew of outcasts with sketchy pasts who break into companies for a living (not a very good one), Sneakers has an all-star cast, a killer script, and a terrifyingly prescient story about information and its control over our lives in the modern age. This is Deciphering Sneakers.

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All of the movies in the Die Hard franchise include more than their share of absurd stunts and ridiculous moments, and the fourth installment, Live Free or Die Hard, sets the standard. From throwing a car at a helicopter to hacking the power grid to Kevin Smith's basement lair to everything Justin Long does, this movie is 128 minutes of over the top stunts, stunt hacking, and stunted dialogue. This is Deciphering Live Free or Die Hard.

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David Scott Lewis was part of the early generation of computer hobbyists who built their own machines, learned through trial-and-error, and paved the way for the hackers and tinkerers who would follow in their footsteps in the next few decades. As a college student in the late 1970s, David met two screenwriters who were working on a script about a brilliant scientist and his teen protege. That story eventually evolved into the script for WarGames and David became the inspiration for Matthew Broderick's character, David Lightman. Dennis Fisher sat down with David to talk about his introduction to hacking, his involvement in WarGames, and how he's stayed involved in the scene throughout the years.

If you'd like to contact David, send an email to [email protected]. 

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When The Net hit theaters in 1995, the World Wide Web was in its infancy, Internet access was spotty, slow, and unreliable, and the concepts of identity theft and database hacking were completely foreign to most people. Sandra Bullock's character Angela Bennett is a smart and resourceful but introverted systems analyst whose world is thrown into chaos by a shadowy hacking group, a story that foreshadows much of what has come to pass in the nearly 25 years since. This is Deciphering The Net, with Fahmida Rashid, Melanie Ensign, and Dennis Fisher.

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