CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
ILOVEYOU never encrypted a file or stole a password from us. It just sent mail, from hundreds of our machines at once, until our Exchange server ran out of disk space and died. Recovery took weeks, and it changed how…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
Clean machine A. While you are cleaning machine B, machine C reinfects A. We played whack-a-mole against a network worm that never got tired, and lost, until we stopped treating machines and started treating the network.
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
The PCI scan found L0phtCrack, a password cracker, sitting on one of our servers. We hunted it down expecting an intruder. We found our own consultant, who needed passwords to do his job and decided cracking them was faster than…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
Every executive who comes to me for a cybersecurity book wants to write a technical book. The book that builds careers is aimed at boards, customers, and the people who approve budgets, with the technical depth as rebar: everywhere, load-bearing,…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
The consultant's heroics got the disks back. Then came the part the first article only promised: bringing up applications that had been written on the assumption they would never stop. No restart procedures, no known states, dependencies documented in nobody's…
CybersecurityJune 13, 2026
Security leadership from decades inside real operations: the unglamorous work nobody wants and the human layer everybody forgets.
CybersecurityJune 13, 2026
Straight answers for security leaders thinking about a book: what to write, what to leave out, what it costs, and whether it is worth your time.
Book MarketingJune 12, 2026
Trolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
CybersecurityJune 10, 2026
Novel ghostwriting by a published novelist with 22 books of his own. Bring a story, a world, or a stalled draft and get a finished novel. $1/word, you own it all.
CybersecurityMay 29, 2026
A former famous hacker turned security consultant on how to be online without leaving a trace, an eye-opener on how thoroughly you are tracked and what to do about it. Valuable to anyone online, including writers. The 2017 technical specifics…
CybersecurityMay 29, 2026
Humane, unsettling nonfiction on public shaming and the social-media pile-on, following real wrecked lives with empathy and turning a mirror on the reader and the culture. Impressionistic and digressive instead of systematic, but timely, important, and genuinely thought-provoking for anyone…
CybersecurityMay 29, 2026
A sharp, intelligent polemic from a Silicon Valley insider, arguing that social media's harms to psychology, truth, and society are by design instead of accident. Deliberately one-sided, with a delete-everything fix more provocative than practical, but a bracing counterweight, especially…
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