Bøger af Mark Osborne

Based on a true story of a painting called 'the crying boy' painted by Bruno Amadio after the second world war. The portrait represented the children orphaned by the war. The pictures made their way to Britain. But over time the portraits were believed to be cursed-after many were found unscathed from within house fires.My story is fictional and has no connection to the facts of the pictures that were soon thought of as cursed. It begins in 1915 when children go missing in a residential area of Deadwood in Pinestork. Soon a body of a man is found at his burnt down house with a painting which survived the fire which resembles one of the missing children. Many decades on. The ghost of one of the children tries to warn a blind girl of an evil that lurks beyond the cursed painting of The Crying Boy.

"Cyber Attack, CyberCrime, CyberWarfare - CyberComplacency" is one of the few books that covers destructive Computer Network Attacks in the Internet and in CyberSpace. It is an in-depth reference that covers DDOS from motivation, identification, analysis and mitigation. By the author of the consistently top-selling in class "How to Cheat at Managing Information Security" and like that book, proceeds go to charity. Osborne starts with Network/Internet provider business practices and existing monitoring & detection systems. It shows the current focus on other forms of attacks including traditional electronic espionage, counter-terrorism and malware. It then describes various mechanisms for estimation of Cyberattack impact covering direct cost, indirect cost, and customer churn. It gradually drills down covering the various attacks types - right down to the packet trace level, and how to detect them. These chapters are culminated with a full description of mitigation techniques, traditional and cutting edge - again these are described in clear English but reinforced with common device configuration for the technical reader. The penultimate section highlights details of vulnerabilities in the Physical, Human, Mobile Apps, SCADA, Software security, BGP, and DNS elements of Cybersecurity. These include those that are currently utilised, that were predicted and have since been exploited during the publication process, and those that have yet to be leveraged. The last chapter explores the concept of a Firesale and how Hollywood's blueprint for Armageddon could be implemented in reality.

A history of the one of England''s most iconic landmarks, The Tower of London, as told by it''s most famous and long standing residents, the ravens. From the Norman invasion in 1066, through the Medieval and Tudor periods, to the modern day and the spectacular poppies installation of 2014, the ravens take us on a fun and informative journey through the Tower''s story. Each page of the story is accompanied by a full colour hand-drawn illustration and the book is introduced by a foreword from the Tower Raven-master himself, Chris Skaife.

Jackie Parsons was a 29, enthusiastic woman and single. Four years ago her engagement with Scott Ellis was called off, and since then she had remained alone and carefree.But only recently, Jackie's desire to rekindle their relationship was her primary objective.Then, as if fate stepped in, her best friend Tina Farrow introduced her to a witch called Olive Tudor who offered her that wish Scott was returning to her, by performing a love spell.Jackie decided to meet the witch who lived in a small cottage, with her black stallion named Grimalkin, in Ash Forest.Soon the love spell was cast, and her beloved man will return in four days. He soon returns on her doorstep early and no sooner does Jackie decide to have him back, things begin to change. Scott was back in her arms and bed once again, but something unearthly and sinister was not far behind.With love, death and betrayal to contend with- Jackie soon realises she had made a huge mistake, by putting her trust in the Pindle Witch of Ash Forest.

Billy Fox a young boy from a rural area of Scullyman in England soon embarks on a quest to save the world from an alien invasion.One day he discovers a strange egg in his backyard which soon escalates into a matter of life or death for him and the whole of the human race.Soon a white witch and a duck team up with the boy to find a way to dispose of the egg before the Stellarlites invade earth.

The Raven's Inn- was a four-hundred-year-old guest house, that welcomed travellers and locals alike.The inn was on an island called Lance- just off the coast of England, and was favoured for its fine food and accommodation.But, the island also had a darker side. Within its midst-were, a crew of fishermen who went by the name of the Anchormen.They were secretive and cruel and kidnapped travellers who came to the island.Once taken, they were sold to Europe and America as slaves, and personal treasures were looted to sustain their evil empire.One day, an eccentric, Jamaican born gentleman, Johnson Brown arrives at the island and soon disappears. The locals begin to talk, while the Anchormen harbour their deceitful secret.Left to die underground. The visitor not only brings a fatal disease to the island-he also curses Raven's Inn.

When Billy Fox receives a parcel one morning. He opens it, only to find some macabre gift sent to him from Ms. Cain.But something seems to tell him, this strange item could not be from the white witch, but someone else.Then, from that moment on, his life spirals into a waking nightmare, when a voodoo spirit known as the Janitou is conjured up to possess Billy's body and soul.Will this be the end of Billy Fox? And will Vaul the black witch, finally have her ultimate revenge?

One morning, Billy Fox finds a strange, long black mark on his life-line in the palm of his hand. As he searches online for any unbiased medical information he could find at his local library. He is soon befriended by a mysterious tall man called Mr Limerick. The stranger tells Billy, he has been marked with the Bloodstone Curse by someone. Then, very soon, as time goes by, his friends start going missing, as a demonic creature the Gadel is soon blamed for their disappearance. This leads Billy to make a very hard choice, and the only way to free his friends and lift the curse is to kill himself. Will he take his own life, to save the ones he loves? Or will Billy venture across the sands of Sandark, to slay the beast beyond the Black Rainbow?

What would happen if Mother Nature was a real person? What would happen if she came looking for the one's who betrayed nature? Over 25 years Cobble farm had remained a desolate and forbidden place. One day Jules Knight and his wife Kate who owns the farm discovers a skull on their land. Soon after their find, the crops begin to die and birds stop singing a tune. Then mysteriously they both disappear without a trace, which leads their daughter Lorraine to pick up the pieces and try to make sense of her parent's disappearance. Many years later after getting married to Bob and having a daughter Sandra, the Phoenix family moves into the farmhouse. Everything seemed normal until one day the skull resurfaces and the spirit of the Green Lady is released to seek revenge on the ones that had betrayed nature.