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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Never Mess With A Hacker

ForAllSecure

In the 1980’s he tried teaching himself computers by obtaining software from corporate giants like Oracle and AT&T. They didn’t see it that way; they viewed it as Kevin was stealing the software. Kevin talked with the airline and they swore they’d lock up his luggage. KEvin checked again.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. It plans to fly again on Saturday but United Airlines kept them off the plane. Vamosi: And yet the airlines continued to dismiss of this work? I think he was a scissor, the woman talking I think she was a chief pilot at one of the airlines. Here’s CBS news.

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Update On The Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs Consular Consolidated Database: A system that touches the entire nation

CTOvision

The 2015 outage was due to hardware failure with a recovery process compounded by both the production system and backup being impacted. Opinions: Outages occur in complex systems (like the 8 July NYSE and United Airlines outages). There is no indication that either outage was caused by hostile actors.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

The recent news cycle has been flooded with organizations from airlines to banks and hospitals, even entire local governments, falling victim to ransomware attacks,” says Alan Conboy, office of the CTO at Scale Computing. Don’t assume you’re safe because you have the best cybersecurity software. Connecting decentralized software.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. Vamosi: This happens in other industries as well. So anecdote.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. Vamosi: This happens in other industries as well. So anecdote.

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