Tag: Featured
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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…
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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…
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What a Real-World Ransomware Attack Looks Like: Incident Response and Recovery We explore a hypothetical ransomware scenario that mirrors what many organizations could face today. Imagine a normal day where systems suddenly become inaccessible, data is encrypted, and the scope of the attack starts to unfold in real time. What follows is a race against…
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Why Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks for Flight Management Systems The Boeing 747 is often cited online as proof that aviation still runs on floppy disks — but the reality is a bit more nuanced. In this Rant, we take a closer look at how certain older aircraft, particularly some 747-400 configurations, still use…
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Lessons from a Successfully Failed Disaster Recovery and Failover Test Conducted during a busy release weekend, the failover test exposed gaps not in the technology itself, but in coordination and communication. While production ultimately stayed unaffected, the situation quickly escalated as subcontractors weren’t aligned, assumptions didn’t match reality, and information didn’t flow when it mattered…
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The Strange State of the Tech Job Market In this short episode, Jack takes a look at the current state of the IT hiring market — where job postings seem plentiful, but actual opportunities often feel strangely elusive. From “entry-level” roles asking for a decade of experience to companies searching for the mythical full-stack, cloud,…
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200 Techs Using A Single Raspberry Pi: The Temporary Server That Failed A few hundred field engineers. Real humans. With vans. And jobs. All coordinated by a device roughly the size of a coaster and powered by something suspiciously similar to a phone charger. For months, it runs slow but flawlessly. Tickets dispatched. Routes optimized.…
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Why Your Bank Account Just Got Hit Multiple Times Jack’s Rants dives into the world of banking mainframes and the batch jobs that quietly keep everything moving — until one of them doesn’t. What starts as a routine overnight run turns into a multiple transactions on thousands of accounts that didnt happen in the real…
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How We Survived the Traffic Flood from Anonymous This episode we unpack what a DDoS attack actually is, using the specter of Anonymous as a cultural touchstone rather than a how-to villain. We talk about why high-profile groups target services, what it feels like in real time when traffic spikes and systems start gasping, and…