Published June 4 2017
Apologies for the late issue! This is a short one due to having a busy week, still quite a few good articles!
With the fallout of British Airways’ IT disaster last week, they have now apparently blamed it on a sole engineer. After trying to gag staff I’m unsure what to believe.
I honestly don’t get how this happens. WordPress as a product isn’t that hard to protect and for a university to not notice that one of its subdomains was hosting malware for so long is shocking. (Source)
I hate going after cops but I hadn’t ever heard about this LARD cannon before this article, I’m interested in what people think of it. After watching the video I imagine it would have to be one of those things you can’t really grasp until it happens to you. (Source)
Redditor /u/cscareerthrowaway567 managed to delete the production database on the first day of his job. I have to admit, I don’t think this was his fault at all. Who the hell gives people production access in a document on their first day? GitLab’s Yorick made a great comment about his experience doing the same thing.
A lot of good maths and figures in this post although it is heavily based around US numbers.
