From Freebooksearch.net For those of you who have been following along with my posts, some of you know that I recently read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. For those that missed the review, you can find it here. I thought it was a very well done novel with some very unique characters, [...]
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It’s been quite a while since I have been able to sit down and read a book for fun, but I’m glad I took the time to make it through Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.Synopsis:Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is convicted of libel and puts his magazine Millennium into financial jeopardy. With his career [...]
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Cover via Amazon Time for a little break from security stuff. I want to talk a little bit about J.L. Bourne’s most recent novel titled “Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile” which is the sequel to his first outing, “Day by Day Armageddon” I just finished reading it the other day, so while it’s still [...]
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Image via Wikipedia To get into the mood for the coming week, it’s time to gear up with look at a book that deals with deception and team work. “Bringing Down the House,” was penned by author Ben Mezrich, who chronicles a team of M.I.T. students who used card counting strategy in blackjack to take [...]
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This weekend, here at the blog has been on the very non serious side and purposely so. Every once in a while a break is much needed from the information security/fraud point of view. It’ll always be there, but you’ve got to escape it now and again. In gearing up for the week, I thought [...]
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Image via Wikipedia It has now been close to a year since my interest in the information security field sky rocketed. If you’ve been a faithful reader, then you would know that my gateway into infosec was a documentary called “Hackers are People too” and by researching the professions of some of the people interviewed [...]
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It’s been a while since I did a book review, so here ya go! I’ve read “Blindness” by Portuguese author Jose Saramago, quite a while ago, but I think it’s very worthy of a review. Sadly I found out a little while ago that Saramago passed away this past June Saramago is a Nobel Prize receipient for [...]
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I just finished Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” earlier this afternoon. I really can’t give a synopsis because it will give things away, but I’ll try my best to summarize. The story revolves around a girl named Katniss Everdeen who is from District 12 in the country of Panem, which once used to be the [...]
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One thing I mentioned when first starting this blog is to expect things other than information security and fraud. Everyone needs a little break now and then to enjoy other things. Last night, I finished “The Dragon Factory” by author Jonathan Maberry. The second novel in his Joe Ledger series. The first being “Patient Zero” [...]
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