When Arcade Machines Go Online A modern pinball machine isn’t just flippers, bumpers, lights, and a very large box making expensive noises. It’s a connected computer with software updates, online score tracking, player accounts, remote management, and an Internet connection. Evert Brochez from Torius joins Jack to explain how pinball evolved from electromechanical machines into…

Blame, Reorganize, Repeat There is an old management joke about an outgoing manager leaving three numbered envelopes for their successor. When the first crisis arrives: blame your predecessor. The second: reorganize. And when the third arrives… prepare three envelopes. We look at why this joke has survived for decades, and why anyone who has worked…

Software Testing Done Right – Where, When and What Should You Test? Testing software sounds simple enough. But what exactly should you test, where should those tests happen, and how do you decide which parts of a complex system need the most attention? Jack talks with Mooly Beeri about software testing from a developer’s perspective:…

How a Mainframe Timer Bug Slowed an Entire Development Team One day, a busy IBM-compatible mainframe began slowing to a crawl. Hundreds of programmers noticed immediately — some even resorted to banging on the server room window when the system became unusable. The problems had started after a microcode upgrade, but there was no obvious…

How a Betting System Crashed at the Worst Possible Moment Every year, the Melbourne Cup pushes Australia’s betting infrastructure to its limits. In 1991, a known software bug turned one of the busiest days of the year into an IT disaster. As millions of bets poured in, CPU utilisation unexpectedly collapsed and the betting system…

How a Missing VLAN Strategy Turned Smart City Infrastructure into a Cybersecurity Nightmare Smart cities promise better transportation, connected infrastructure, and improved services—but what happens when everything is connected a little too well? In this episode, our guest shares the story of a security assessment in a major metropolitan smart city where network segmentation had…

A Cybersecurity Incident, a Golf Course Conversation, and Why No Industry Is Too Boring to Be Targeted No one expects a cybersecurity incident to begin in the cardboard industry. Yet as our guest Kayne McGladrey explains, cybercriminals don’t care what your company manufactures—they care about opportunity. In this episode, Kayne shares how an unexpected conversation…

The Day a Hiring Exercise Became an Information Security Incident It was supposed to be a routine hiring exercise. A candidate receives a technical assignment, reviews the provided material, and prepares a solution. Then someone notices that the “anonymous” dataset isn’t anonymous at all. What follows is an uncomfortable discovery involving confidential business information, questions…

Enterprise Printing Explained and Why Printing Still Breaks IT Printing is one of those technologies everyone assumes should have been solved years ago — until someone can’t print invoices, shipping labels stop coming out, or 50,000 customer letters suddenly disappear into a print queue somewhere. In this episode, we take a tour through the strange…

How a Laptop Took Down a Warehouse Welcome to the story of a perfectly known and visible laptop that somehow became critical production infrastructure inside a warehouse environment — without going through proper validation, testing, or operational review. The system worked, solved an immediate problem, and was quickly integrated into daily operations… right up until…