by Greg Scott | Jul 1, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
I started using Facebook back in 2009. A few friends greeted me. It was fun. I connected with my sister, T, and her family in Idaho and we’ve traded hundreds, or maybe thousands of messages since then. T was 11 when I was born. She spent much of her teenage...
by Greg Scott | Jun 28, 2024 | Cybersecurity
Like nearly all sensational data breaches, the public will probably never know the root cause of the Great United Health Group data breach of 2024 that exposed medical information for millions and millions of Americans. But after following data breaches for a long...
by Greg Scott | Jul 9, 2023 | Cybersecurity
Back in 2019, I followed somebody on Twitter and they tried to entice me with a private message sex reference. Happens all the time – surely it’s not somebody probing to groom me – must be my masculine physique. Yeah, in my dreams. 🙂 But I answered...
by Greg Scott | May 1, 2023 | Cybersecurity
The very first thing I learned about cybersecurity was, learn to think like an attacker. And since online grooming is a cybersecurity problem, if I want to to understand how today’s traffickers find online grooming victims, then I need to think like a...
by Greg Scott | Apr 29, 2023 | Cybersecurity
Internet Viral Lies and Public Indoctrination In mid January, 2021, a few days after internet viral lies influenced a mob to attack the US Capitol, I wrote a blog post about information warfare. I made the case that internet viral lies are at the heart of...
by Greg Scott | Mar 22, 2022 | Cybersecurity
A person who lives near me originally posted this story on Facebook about how somebody claimed to have kidnapped his fiancé. I am sharing it here with his permission. He posted the story on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. This is his story in his own words. I edited for...
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