by Greg Scott | Nov 11, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
I’ve been working hard these past few months marketing Virus Bomb and Bullseye Breach. But after some people called me a paranoid, condescending fear monger, I spent a long time soul-searching. I’m done soul-searching. I’ll wear that label as a badge...
by Greg Scott | Sep 12, 2019 | Cybersecurity
pasted from https://radioink.com/2019/09/10/entercom-under-attack/ The ransomware attack numbers are shocking. Here are a few ugly statistics, pasted from this source. This stuff is easy to find – just search for “ransomware statistics” and prepare...
by Greg Scott | Jun 18, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Technology
My history with building websites and book marketing is like a random walk wearing a blindfold. Try something, do it wrong, fix it, move on to the next mistake. And that’s why I originally built this website with HTTP instead of HTTPS. A few people challenged me...
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,...
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