The Morning I Found a Plugin I Never Installed
July 13, 2026
A plugin folder appeared on my site that I never installed. It was caught before it did damage, and the investigation changed how I run every part of my WordPress stack.
Category: Technology (Page 7)
Behind the BookAnger Gets Six Times the Engagement. The Rest Follows From That.
July 7, 2026
We saw the warning signs. Facebook was making us depressed, Twitter was making us angry, and we kept using them anyway.
CybersecurityThe People Getting Attacked Are the Ones Nobody Writes For
July 6, 2026
There is a great deal of security writing and almost none of it is addressed to the people losing money.
BusinessGetting People Off Paper: The First Fight Is Never Technical
July 4, 2026
Nobody stood on a desk. The resistance was quieter and more durable: ledgers kept in bottom drawers, spreadsheets shadowing the new system, a steady preference for the world people knew. Underneath it all was a fear nobody said out loud.
BusinessRetraining Beat Fear Then. It Is the Answer to AI Panic Now.
July 4, 2026
I have watched a workforce fear a new technology before, and I watched the fear dissolve. It did not dissolve because of reassurance, town halls, or enthusiasm campaigns. It dissolved because we retrained people, and training is the only answer…
CybersecurityThe Day Every Safety Net Failed: Anatomy of a Cascading Disaster
July 4, 2026
My consultant called while I was driving to a Renaissance fair: the power had failed, the generator had not come on, one UPS was missing, a coin-sized battery had died, the DR link had been down for two days, and…
BusinessWe Did Digital Transformation Before It Had a Name
July 4, 2026
Nobody in the room called it digital transformation, because the term did not exist. We had a retailer running accounting, HR, and payroll on paper, a mandate to computerize all of it, and years later the industry invented a name…
CybersecurityThe Auditor Who Graded Us on Spirit, Not Letter
July 4, 2026
Our PCI auditor looked at a legacy database connection we could not afford to rebuild and said: wrap it in a VPN. That sentence introduced us to mitigating controls, turned a six-figure project into a configuration change, and taught me…
CybersecurityEight Years of PCI Audits: The Most Thankless Heroics in IT
July 4, 2026
Pass the audit and nothing happens. Fail it and the company loses the ability to take credit cards. For eight straight years I carried a major retailer through PCI audits that nobody outside IT ever noticed, and that invisibility is…
CybersecurityMy Own Site Got Hit: Anatomy of a WordPress Supply-Chain Attack
July 4, 2026
The email said malware had been quarantined on my site and I had three days to fix it. Deleting the file took a minute. The forensics took two days, and the trail ended somewhere worse than a break-in: the plugin…
CybersecurityThe Ransomware Years: When Laptops Became Bricks
July 4, 2026
Somebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
BusinessSix DBAs, Six Months, Open Checkbook
July 4, 2026
The migration budget covered the conversion, the cutover, the infrastructure, the testing. The real bill arrived afterward, by invoice: hundreds of SQL queries that had to be re-optimized for the new platform, by six specialist DBAs, over six months, on…