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One data center management team learned the hard way that bugs can be a menace — or, to be more specific, the people who hunt them. And we’re talking about real, six-legged bugs, not the computer kind. It started last November when NetSPI, a Minneapolis-based penetration testing firm, was hired to do a test by a company that owned several colocation facilities. NetSPI’s job was to use social engineering to physically breach the data center, with the objective to get into one of their facilities and into a position where they could access the networks. “This was a highly secured…
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UPDATE FEB. 2021: Lately, I’ve been testing out a new online collaboration tool called Notion. The basic plan, which includes sharing with up to five collaborators, is free. It allows for embedded related tables. It supports PDF exports for things…
New update, June 18: I’ve started a new virtual Zoom-based MeetUp group for speculative fiction writers. If you write science fiction, fantasy or horror, check us out. Update: Since this post was first published, several people have contacted me from…
(Image courtesy Otter.AI.) Another tool useful for writers that I’ve talked about this one in writers’ meetings before is Otter.AI. It transcribes your dictation. You just talk, and it converts it into text, with any smartphone.…
Filming IDG Tech Talk in September of 2019. A friend of a friend just called me, asking for advice on how to become a technology journalist. I promised to send him some links and figured I’d…
The Lost King of Krim was #10 on Amazon’s Two-Hour Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads best seller list on September 11, 2019. The Lost King of Krim, a novella of the Krim virtual world that…
I am putting together a writers’ Mastermind group, to meet Sunday mornings via conference calls, such as Skype or Facebook video. You can read my full bio here, but the basic summary is that I’ve been a journalist for more…