by Greg Scott | Oct 26, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
We signed up for DirecTV in 2007. It didn’t take long for the price to double, and then double again. Back in 2020, after yet another price increase, I finally called to cancel. And then the retention department offered to cut the price by roughly half –...
by Greg Scott | Sep 15, 2021 | Cybersecurity
Photo courtesy of Pexels Most cybersecurity media coverage focuses on website end users. We need more about the other side. How do we improve website security? Thanks to Alyssa Strickland for writing this guest blog post about website security. And so, without further...
by Greg Scott | Aug 21, 2021 | Cybersecurity
When I tell people we’re all on the cyber-war front lines, they often remind me of anti-vaxxers. Cybersecurity is somebody else’s problem. Many act like they think I’m delusional. Or worse. One group called me a paranoid, condescending, fear-monger a...
by Greg Scott | Jul 9, 2021 | Cybersecurity
Composite image from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57244860 The Kaseya cyberattack, Microsoft PrintNightmare, and ransomware stories are all over the news in July 2021. Panic is in the air. President Biden and Russian leader, Vladimir Putin are talking...
by Greg Scott | May 31, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
It seems my comments in the April 30, 2021 The Verge story about the Linux kernel banning the University of Minnesota made some anonymous knucklehead mad enough to send me hate mail via my website. The author went to great pains to stay hidden. Congratulations. Nobody...
by Greg Scott | Jan 19, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Politics and Religion
Duh! That’s what we say when something should be obvious. It turns out, information warfare is at the heart of cybersecurity. But the cybersecurity community and I missed it. This Computer Weekly article from Dec. 23, 2020 brought it into focus. And the US...
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