Tipping was never supposed to be this way. It started as a small thank-you for exceptional service — a few extra bucks for the waiter who remembered your drink order or the bartender who stayed late. Now it’s a guilt-driven[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Picture this: It’s Halloween, and instead of handing out Snickers bars to kids, you’re distributing USB sticks to adults—because let’s be honest, nothing makes a grown professional’s eyes light up faster than free tech. A USB drive is basically the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the dystopian future of IoT—where everything is smart enough to get dumb malware. You wake up craving a perfectly chilled Chardonnay, only to find your smart wine cooler demanding bitcoin. Turns out, your fancy appliance also downloaded TotallyLegitWineApp.exe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hacking was once a hobby for mischievous nerds in basements, now a multi-billion-dollar industry with more acronyms than a government conspiracy theory. When the Internet was still in its infancy and Bulletin Board Systems were all the range, I learned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A client of mine had backups and then was hit with ransomware. Unfortunately for them, they learned that their backups would take days to download from the cloud. This was something that should’ve been tested to ensure it met with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
IT pros all know that on-call really means permanently tethered to your laptop like a dog on a leash, and work-life balance is just a mythical creature rumored to exist somewhere between the 3 AM ransomware alert and your fifth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine this: You build a beautiful online house (your website), decorate it with your finest memes and professional content, only to wake up one day and find some cyber-squatter has changed the locks, replaced your family photos with Russian ransomware[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…