Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Day the Logic Bomb Went Off

AMC’s television series “Halt and Catch Fire” shows North Texas’ rise as the “Silicon Prairie.” In the 1980s and early 1990s, it’s where IBM PC cloning was explored and where first-person shooter games were created. It’s also the site of the first “logic bomb”—the source of my horror story.

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Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Avoidable DNS Disaster

While acting as vice president of a performance-based Internet marketing company, I oversaw the migration to a new infrastructure, an important part of which involved changing over 300 of our DNS records. Imagine my horror when I discovered that we’d mistakenly misrouted nearly all of those records, taking the entire company down.

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CISSP Question of the Week: Customer Credit Card Information

CISSP Question of the Week courtesy of Transcender Labs. Your company has an e-commerce site that is publicly accessible over the Internet. The e-commerce site accepts credit card information from a customer and then processes the customer’s transaction. Which standard or law would apply for this type of data? A. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 B. […]

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