by Greg Scott | Jun 16, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Amazing. The Target outage started mid morning on Saturday, June 15, 2019 when every POS system across the United States went down. The system came back online a few hours later. That part isn’t amazing. Stuff happens. What’s amazing is the reaction and...
by Greg Scott | May 26, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life, Technology
Image from a 2010 CNN story about the FBI demanding Wikipedia remove the FBI logo from a Wikipedia article. In my new book, Virus Bomb, Jerry Barkley doesn’t trust the FBI because his past experiences with the FBI have been less than satisfactory. Some people...
by Greg Scott | Dec 16, 2018 | Cybersecurity
It doesn’t take serious writers long to learn we need to be fanatical about quality with every element of our stories. So why, when we demand quality everywhere else, do we embrace Hollywood hacker stereotypes? Hollywood hacker characters are usually young, misfit,...
by Greg Scott | Nov 16, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
Here is an identity theft story from my friend, S. In her own words. The lesson – never never never give anyone your debit card. Even if you’re recovering from surgery in a hospital. ******************* Last place one would expect identity fraud My...
by Greg Scott | Jun 13, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
I’ve written lots of blog posts about electronic data breaches and identity theft over the Internet. I even published a book about how a data breach might unfold, and another one about what might happen if a nation-state really does get serious about attacking...
by Greg Scott | Jun 7, 2018 | Cybersecurity
It was all over the news. Russian hackers are inside home Internet routers across America, spying on us, stealing our identities, meddling with elections, and who knows what else. But don’t worry – just reboot that little box with all the wires connected...
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