Business ContinuityThe 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…
CareersIT certifications still move careers in 2026, but which ones and why has shifted. The catch is a certificate only helps when it maps to a real skill and role.
CybersecurityStraight 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.
Critical ThinkingTrolls 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…
Book ReviewsJournalist Blomkvist and the fierce hacker Lisbeth Salander crack a decades-old disappearance, in the dark, propulsive thriller that launched a wave of Scandinavian crime fiction. Anchored by one of modern fiction's most original characters. Contains graphic content.
Book ReviewsA 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…
Artificial IntelligenceThe 1984 debut that founded cyberpunk and won the SF triple crown, coining cyberspace and imagining the digital age before it arrived, all in dense, noir, technopoetic prose. A stylistic tour de force, demanding and sometimes cold, with surface-iconic characters,…
Book ReviewsA 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…
Book ReviewsHumane, 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…
Authority Through AuthorshipA cybersecurity book helps attackers only if you print the one wrong thing, the working exploit. You can write deeply about how attacks unfold and how to defend against them without ever handing over a usable map. The rule is…
CybersecurityA name I had not seen in thirteen years appeared in my Facebook messages, an old friend who within a few lines had no money for food. I knew where it was going before she got there, because being scammed…
CybersecurityThe biggest breach I ever watched was defeated by a brick propping a door open for smoke breaks. Home security fails at the human seam, not the technical one.
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