Computer Science Principles: Digital Information

This LinkedIn Learning course looked at data and Digital Information in terms of computer science and gave a brief outlook of what we should be aware of as cybersecurity professionals.

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Learning Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions are shortcode langauge settings for computer programming used in cybersecurity. This was a LinkedIn Course that I did as part of my Masterschool studies According to Grok: Regular expressions (often abbreviated as regex or regexp) are a powerful, concise way to describe and match patterns in text. They…

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Review: Red Horizons – The True Story of Nicolae & Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption – by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

I was just chatting away to Ionutz a security nurse in the local mental hospital and he’s Romanian. I passed through Bucharest a few years ago en route to Istanbul on a train journey traversing Eastern Europe. Romania seemed quite rural, poor and quite different to the Europe with which…

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Review: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Under Nikita Khrushchev, the easing of oppression allowed Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” to emerge despite censorship. This poignant narrative reflects the grim reality of gulag life, showcasing a political prisoner’s struggle and survival amid harsh conditions, offering a lens into the human capacity for resilience and appreciation.

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Review: The Master and Margarita – by Mikhail Bulgakov

I read a lot of Russian literature and am becoming a bit of an aficionado. This book was first recommended to me by an ex-girlfriend from Serbia and it’s taken me a while to actually get around to completing it but I finally have done so and can produce this…

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Review: Spare – by Prince Harry

If you were a hermit living in a remote cave then I expect that even you would be well aware that Prince Harry and his wife have been in the news recently quite a lot. Initially I decided I was going to avoid the mass hysteria and not tune into…

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