Tag: the hacks

Jun 11, 2020

The Death Star... Who's To Blame

In this special Star Wars episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga debate the most catastrophic cybersecurity and IT Operations fail in the history of the Universe! The Death Star was the Empire’s ultimate secret weapon–a terrifying, moon-sized,…

Jun 2, 2020

Why Do Programming Paradigms Matter?

This is the episode where Chunga gets to help everyone gaze into the spook alley that is the mind of Thomas Hatch. The Hacks are getting philosophical and asking the question, “Why Do Programming Paradigms Matter?” Why does the language of software…

May 26, 2020

Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI and the broader US Government have conducted and concluded a multi-year study, beginning in 2016. The purpose of this study was to alert and provide better technical guidance for IT…

May 19, 2020

The State of "XOps"

Tom and Chunga may have just created the next, big, industry buzz term called “XOps” So… What is it? What does it mean? Basically, XOps is an umbrella term used to describe the generalized factions of all IT disciplines. Xops goes back to the root,…

May 12, 2020

Becoming a Rockstar Software Developer

Chunga got an email from a listener a few days ago asking Tom a question. This person some advice on becoming a rockstar software developer. The global pandemic has changed the lives of every single person on this planet in just a few short weeks. For…

May 5, 2020

What Aspects of Software Development Matter the Most?

Chunga is fairly new to the IT Automation industry. Even though he’s new, he can still hold his own in most cases. However, this episode of The Hacks has him feeling like he’s completely out of his league, why? He and Tom are talking about which…

Apr 28, 2020

Cybercriminals Are Targeting Healthcare and How To Stop Them

It really is horrible. Low life, cybercriminals are using the global pandemic and the chaos surrounding it as cover to launch ransomware and other types of cyberattacks against the healthcare industry. In many respects, these attacks have been very…

Apr 21, 2020

IT and InfoSec Job Security: How safe is the industry?

A few weeks ago, our world was a much different place. Now things are different thanks to Covid-19. As of this episode, more than 7-million people are unemployed… How is this virus and the economic fallout affecting IT and InfoSec jobs in the tech…

Apr 14, 2020

The COBOL Skills Shortage

It may be hard to believe for some of you but there’s a 60-year old computer code called COBOL that’s still in use today and now it’s having some “serious” problems. For the past week or so, it seems like every trade publication or industry website is…