by Greg Scott | Mar 17, 2016 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
It’s good to know that at least my family listens to my constant Internet safety lectures. I wish more business leaders would do more than talk about taking security seriously. I am under constant cyber-attack. Every single day, more than 100 phishing emails...
by Greg Scott | Feb 19, 2016 | Cybersecurity
In December, 2015, two terrorists in San Bernardino, California, committed a horrific and gruesome crime when they murdered 14 coworkers and seriously injured 22 others. Law enforcement caught up with these murderers a few hours later and they died in a shootout....
by Greg Scott | Oct 6, 2015 | Slice of Life, Technology
This is a story about how a depleted printer inkjet cartridge stopped Sams Club from selling cell phones on the day of a big Apple announcement. Not a shining moment for enterprise IT. My wife, Tina’s smartphone gave us three good years of life. But with...
by Greg Scott | Jul 11, 2015 | Cybersecurity
It seems the Chinese plundered the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) at will for at least a year. Here is my original blog post about the OPM data breach nightmare. If you’re a CEO of a major organization and you still think Internet security...
by Greg Scott | Jul 2, 2015 | Cybersecurity
Here is yet another data breach headline, this time from the Donald himself, Trump Hotel properties, published yesterday (July 1, 2015) by Brian Krebs. Here is the link to the article. It seems the banks uncovered a trail of credit card fraud leading...
by Greg Scott | Jun 6, 2015 | Cybersecurity
Yet another sensational data breach headline – not even shocking anymore. Yawn. But listening to the story on the radio on the way home last night after being slaughtered in softball again, I started thinking. And I dug a little deeper into the story when I...
by Greg Scott | Jun 4, 2015 | Technology
I’ve been in the IT industry my entire adult life, so sometimes I use words and just assume everyone thinks they mean the same thing I think they mean. I was recently challenged with the word, “redundancy.” “What does that even mean?”...
by Greg Scott | May 22, 2015 | Slice of Life
I have a friend, let’s call her Mandy. Mandy is an identity theft victim. Mandy is not her real name because this is a private story and she wants to maintain her privacy. She’s willing to share it, anonymously, because she read “Bullseye...
by Greg Scott | May 13, 2015 | Cybersecurity
I was in a Barnes and Noble bookstore a few days go, pitching my new book, “Bullseye Breach,” to one of the folks working behind the counter. I know all the big decisions are always made at corporate headquarters, but nobody invited me to...
by Greg Scott | Apr 21, 2015 | Cybersecurity
The short answer is, no. The pro argument says law enforcement needs this tool to fight crime and terrorism, and we can build appropriate safeguards into any law to prevent abuse. The con arguments point out the danger in granting more power to the government,...
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