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Robert Pleasant

Robert Pleasant is a writer and unabashed nerd, contributing news coverage and editorial articles to SiliconANGLE. His experience includes writing articles for websites such as UCStrategies, G33k-HQ, and Green Tea Graffiti, covering a range of subjects in technology, gaming, and entertainment. Robert, known to his friends as Robbie, earned his degree in Creative Writing from University of California, Santa Cruz, before getting into the tech news field, and in addition to the writing he does for SiliconANGLE, enjoys creating original comedic stories in his downtime.

Latest from Robert Pleasant

Augmented reality’s peculiar psychological impact

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

By now, you may have noticed an influx of people of all ages walking around parks and public spaces with their cell phones in hand, wandering in strange circles before swiping a few times on the screen and exclaiming “Caught it!” Maybe …

Datadog gets bit by hackers

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Datadog, Inc. may be a fine Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, but it too needs a guard dog. A recent hack has resulted in a data breach of the Datadog platform, stealing login credentials for users of all sizes. According to NakedSecurity, the breach …

Triple healthcare hack puts patient data for sale on the darknet

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Healthcare is a common target for hackers looking to make a profit off of the personal information of others. After all, hospitals and healthcare organizations store large amounts of  data, often including sensitive information and insurance records, which cyber criminals can utilize …

Hackers steal and leak US military personnel data

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

When your job involves defending the nation, you want your computer networks to be just as secure. However, following a data breach of US military personnel info, it seems some hackers have made it through their security, and have leaked the information …

New York school district suffers a hack and data breach

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Sometimes the important lessons about security are not learned in schools, but by schools. In this week’s course on cyber security, Holley Central School District itself has been schooled, after a cyber attack leaked the data of thousands employees, old and new …

Millions of voter records leaked on Google

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Did you know that there are database records stored on Google? Anyone who wasn’t aware before certainly knows now, as a voter list containing around 154 million records was exposed, thanks to a small misconfiguration. Security researched Chris Vickery of MacKeeper discovered …

Acer data breach loses customer credit cards

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Multinational hardware and electronics corporation, Acer Service Corporation, has suffered a data breach that puts a good amount of customer information at risk. An intruder took advantage of a vulnerability in the third-party payment processing system, and may have accessed customer payment …

A stolen computer puts Multi-Color employees at risk

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Another day, another data breach, as the firm Multi-Color Global Label Solutions suffers a break-in through a third party affiliate. Notably, this breach wasn’t done through hacking or cyber theft, but rather started with physical theft of property. Earlier this year, a …

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