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Independent security journalism, rebuilt
Decipher is Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch reporting on the attacks, the bugs and the people defending against them. The new site puts every story, episode and vulnerability we cover in one fast, readable place.
- 186
- stories since July 2025
- 398
- episodes of Decipher TV and the podcast, back to 2018
- 105
- CVE pages, scored and checked against CISA
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- incidents followed start to finish
Follow an incident from first report to patch
Big incidents get a page of their own: every Decipher story in order, the vendor and product, every CVE involved, and a timeline that adds the dates CISA flagged them as exploited and the deadline federal agencies had to patch.
| Stories | Every one, oldest first |
| Timeline | Stories, CVE and CISA dates, deadlines |
| Status | Developing or resolved |
| Example | Citrix NetScaler Zero-Days |
Every vulnerability we cover has a page
Mention a CVE and it gets a page: the NVD severity score, whether it’s on CISA’s Known Exploited list and when agencies had to patch, the vendor’s advisories and patches, public exploits, and every Decipher story about it.
| Severity | CVSS from NVD |
| Exploited? | CISA KEV, checked every hour |
| References | Registries, advisories, fixes, exploits |
| Coverage | Every Decipher story |
The facts sit beside the story
Every story carries a Sources & artifacts panel: each CVE with its score and exploitation status, the affected vendor and product, the primary sources, and where the story sits in a larger incident.
| Panel | CVEs, scores, KEV, vendor, sources |
| Timeline | Related stories in the incident |
| Reading | Light or dark, phone or desk |
Watch it, or listen to it
The Week and Conversations play in our own player, with chapters you can jump between. Switch to Listen and the same episode keeps going as audio, even as you move around the site. Transcripts make every episode searchable.
| Shows | The Week, Conversations, 60 Seconds |
| Player | Chapters, captions, speed |
| Listen | Keeps playing as you browse |
| Transcripts | Searchable |
The week in one place
Every week the homepage assembles the week: the stories, the episode and the clips. It becomes The Decipher Brief, our newsletter, when it launches.
| When | Every week |
| What | Stories, the episode, clips |
| Newsletter | The Decipher Brief, coming soon |
Find anything, fast
Press / anywhere to search every story and every episode transcript. j and k move through lists. RSS for everything.
| Open | / or ⌘K |
| Covers | Stories and episode transcripts |
| Feeds | RSS, podcast RSS |
Type “decode”
Type decode on any page and the site becomes a command line: list stories, read one with its art in ASCII, follow incidents, list exploited CVEs, play the podcast. Esc to come back.
| Try | ls · cat · incidents · kev · play |
| On a phone | Add ?decode to any address |
Made for reading anywhere
Sponsorship brief
One sponsor per page, clearly labelled
Decipher is reader and sponsor supported, and no vendor owns it. A sponsor message is a single labelled line under the masthead, one per page, never inside a story. Sponsors never touch the newsroom, and any story can run without a sponsor.
| Homepage | Every visit starts here |
| Stories | Under the masthead of every story |
| Episodes | Decipher TV and podcast pages |
| Listen | The podcast archive |
| Format | Name or logo, one line up to 90 characters, a link |
| Per page | One sponsor |