Tag: Featured
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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…
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AI Shadow IT: Why Employees Are Quietly Building the Next IT Risk Artificial intelligence didn’t invent Shadow IT—it made it invisible. In this Jack’s Rant, Jack Smith explores how AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude have fundamentally changed the way employees solve problems. No servers under desks. No rogue software installations. Just a browser…
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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…
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Why scambaiting videos leave security professionals with more questions than answers. Scambaiters like Kitboga, Jim Browning and Pierogi educate millions, waste scammers’ time, and undoubtedly prevent people from becoming victims. As a security professional, I genuinely appreciate what they do. But every time I watch one of these videos, I find myself asking the same…
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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…
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Privacy, Identity Theft, Data Minimization, and Why Your Driver’s License Is Not a Bar Tab Deposit Opening a tab at a bowling alley shouldn’t require handing over your driver’s license or national ID card. Yet many businesses still ask customers to leave government-issued identity documents behind as collateral, often storing them in plain sight with…
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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…
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ITIL Change Control, Organizational Change, and Why Project Managers Suddenly Need Psychology Degrees Once upon a time, Change Management meant raising an RFC, preparing a rollback plan, and surviving the Change Advisory Board. Today, it also means stakeholder engagement, communication plans, adoption metrics, workshops, and apparently having the emotional intelligence of a licensed therapist Whether…
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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…
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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…