I was halfway through a decent slice of pizza at 1:00 AM when my phone buzzed with a high-priority alert. A client’s entire WordPress directory had just gone dark, throwing nothing but “Internal Server Error” messages across their landing page. …
I still have the entry in my notebook from six years ago, back when I was running my own hosting shop. It was 3:00 AM, the kind of hour where the only sound is the hum of the server rack …
I was staring at my notebook at 3:00 AM, scribbling down the details of yet another client’s “untraceable” breach, when it hit me how much time I’ve wasted chasing ghosts. People love to talk about sophisticated zero-day exploits and high-level …
I was staring at my notebook at 3:00 AM—the one where I log every single outage—trying to make sense of why a client’s entire database had been wiped by a script kiddie. It wasn’t some sophisticated zero-day exploit or a …
I still remember the 3 AM page from 2016 that nearly made me quit the hosting business for good. I was staring at a terminal screen, watching a server bleed data because of a vulnerability that had been public for …
I was halfway through a 120km ride last Tuesday when my phone started vibrating incessantly with emergency alerts. It wasn’t a storm; it was a client’s site going dark because they’d ignored a critical patch for three weeks. I sat …
I was staring at a terminal window at 3:00 AM, the blue light stinging my eyes, watching a single IP address attempt to guess a password for the hundredth time in a row. It wasn’t a sophisticated, state-sponsored cyberattack; it …
I remember sitting in my home office at 3:00 AM, the blue light of my monitor stinging my eyes, staring at a server that had gone completely dark. I hadn’t been hit by a sophisticated state-sponsored cyberattack; I had simply …
I still remember the 3:00 AM page from three years ago—the one that’s currently sitting in my notebook under “Preventable Disasters.” I was staring at a terminal, watching a brute-force attack chew through a client’s server resources because they had …
I still remember a 3:00 AM page from three years ago—the kind that makes your stomach drop before you even open your laptop. I was trying to patch a critical vulnerability on a client’s production server, but I was stuck …