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

4 years late, Finnish Foreign Ministry uncovers hack attack

To quote an old song: “Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I quite want to be” unless I have important data on a government network, in which case it’s not quite the country for me. Or at least, that’s the case after a recent data breach, which targeted the Foreign Ministry’s data network. According to ...

Seagate caught in phishing scam: Here’s their fix

It’s fine to go fishing at sea, but significantly less so to go phishing at Seagate. Unfortunately for Seagate Technology LLC employees, the storage device manufacturing company has been hooked by a targeted phishing attack, and a scammer has run off with their income tax data. According to arstechnica, a Seagate employee received what they assumed ...