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Why Property Management is a Smart Investment for Rental Owners

Owning a rental property can be rewarding, but managing it takes more than collecting rent each month. From finding reliable tenants to…

Part 2: Creating an Employee Handbook for Dive Centers by Jeff McNutt

Every Face on the $25 Million Video Call Was Fake

In early 2024, a finance employee at the engineering firm Arup sat through a video call with his CFO and several colleagues, took…

The Cert That’s Optional in Commercial Hiring Is a Contract Requirement in Defense

Two hiring managers can look at the exact same resume, stop on the exact same CISSP, and be asking two questions that barely overlap. One…

How To Get Things Done In A Heatwave

I wish this summer’s lease would hath all too short a date

How I Got a Mac Mini 2018 to Run GPU Inference Over Thunderbolt 3

I run local LLM inference as a hobby that’s gotten slightly out of hand. I have a couple of inference machines already (a full write-up of…

How to Run a Security Awareness Programme That Actually Changes Behaviour

Your organisation almost certainly runs security awareness training. And your staff almost certainly sit through it, click the completion…

Nobody Wants to Train You

For years, ISC2 published a number that launched a thousand career changes. The cybersecurity workforce gap. It hit 4.8 million unfilled…

From SSH Spaghetti to Agent Mesh: How I Stopped Crashing My Own Machines

A few months ago I wrote about building a fleet of AI agents I could text from my phone. Five agents named after Star Trek characters, each…

Rand McNally to the Chicago River: Agnes Lee’s Eastland Story

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The Biggest Phishing Attacks in History (And the One Mistake Behind Every One)

A sequel on why employees keep falling for phishing. The same failure shows up in the most expensive scams ever pulled off.

What Your Certification Didn’t Teach You

The gap between passing the exam and doing the work, from someone who builds both.

Quinn: Pensions Threaten MAP Grants

Gov. Pat Quinn talks about MAP grants at DePaul University. (Photo/Bob Smith)

The Geometry of Chance: Why the Universe is More Predictable Than You Think.

By Jamie McNeill

The Slightly Bigger You

Why Your Best Self at a Job Interview Isn’t a Character

Testing the Technology Isn’t the Same as Testing the Experience.

A medium Coke. A 6 piece McNuggets.

Ver horas idénticas. ¿Un mensaje del universo?

El ser humano, con frecuencia, al encontrarse con horas idénticas en el reloj, se inclina a suponer que se trata de una epifanía del…

Ver horas iguais. Um recado do universo!

O ser humano, com frequência, ao deparar-se com horas iguais no relógio, se inclina a supor que se trata de uma epifania do Universo, uma…

When Star Trek Discovered An Actual Dyson Sphere…

…but carried on as if nothing special had happened

When “Fix This Code” Becomes a National Security Problem

When “Fix This Code” Becomes a National Security Problem

My Game’s Name Was Already Taken

Discovering that a long-term creative project has been wearing someone else’s clothes

Why Cloud Architects Fail the CCSP (And the Compliance Lead Passes)

Picture two people walking out of the same Pearson VUE testing center on the same afternoon. One of them builds cloud infrastructure for a…

From Kitchen Sinks to Saturn: The Universal Mechanics of Dissipative Structures

By Jamie McNeill

Auntie Em Dash! Auntie Em Dash!

Inspired by reading 1,000,000 articles on the topic

Writing For The Last Readers

Allow me to be the 1,000,000th person to wring his hands about this

Why Smart Engineers Fail the CISSP (And the GRC Analyst Passes)

I have watched brilliant engineers walk out of the CISSP exam looking like they got mugged. People who can stand up a zero trust…

47 Days Is a 2029 Problem. The Real Wake-Up Call Already Happened

Most of the conversation about shorter certificate lifetimes is aimed at a date in 2029. That is the wrong place to be looking. The number…

Is What We See Real?

There are a number of philosophers and scientists who believe what our senses tell us is not actually real, but simply a mental construct…

The Triumphant and Tragic Story of The Study of Polynomial Roots

So many great mathematicians died young trying to solve this problem

Time to Get Back on the Road Again — as Willie Nelson Might Say

This is a different kind of blog — a preview of things to come.

When the Unusual Thing Stalls, Try Opposites

And Why Relationships Still Come First

LAMPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN A LAND ROVER

The Land Rover Series 2.25 petrol — it was great for lamping aka shooting foxes in the middle of the night as the foxes can’t hear the…

The Lost Night When We All Watched The Graduate

Here’s to you, Mrs Algorithm

I Sat Through CEH v13’s AI Modules. Here’s What’s Real and What’s Marketing

EC-Council put the words “world’s first ethical hacking certification to harness the power of AI” on the CEH v13 marketing page. That kind…

Bungie Officially Announces End of Destiny 2

In a recent announcement on their website, Bungie revealed to the world that after the June 9th update, active developement on Destiny 2…

The 30-Second Slip: Why Refusing The Cognition Gap Is The Only True Productivity Superpower

Because one of them’s got to be, right?

Your Questions Are Only as Good as What You Carry Into Them.

If you’ve ever taken an improv class, especially Level 1, you’ve heard it: “Don’t ask questions.” It gets delivered like a commandment…

65% of Companies Had an AI Agent Cause a Security Incident Last Year. Read That Number Twice.

I’ve been on calls with Fortune 500 security teams for the better part of two decades. Some of those calls are about credential theft. Some…

Community Features: Michelle Hoang, B.S. (she/her)

Part-time scientist, part-time crafting connoisseur.

An AI Agent Deleted a Live Production Database in Seconds.

The whole thing took 9 seconds.

The Art of the Assist

Here’s a quick scene for you.

CompTIA’s New AutoOps+ Cert Lands in June.

I’ll admit I was ready to roll my eyes when CompTIA announced AutoOps+. We already have Network+, Linux+, Cloud+, Server+, Security+, the…

Why Does Having Everything Feel Like Having Nothing?

An argument for building something the market doesn’t need

The Hexagon Blueprint: Why biology isn’t a cosmic fluke, it’s just planetary physics.

By Jamie McNeill

What CompTIA SecAI+ Doesn’t Teach You (And Why That’s Still OK)

A buddy of mine who runs a SOC at a defense contractor called me last month. One of his analysts had just passed the SecAI+ beta and was…

Should You Take Security+ 701 Now or Wait for 801?

I have been getting this question multiple times a week since CompTIA quietly posted the draft 801 objectives. The pattern is predictable…

The Martyrdom Of Being A Pedant

Because pedants don’t think they’re being pedantic

Chennai Super Kings Announce Replacement Member

Chennai Super Kings have signed Karnataka all-rounder McNeil Hadley Noronha as a replacement for the injured Ramakrishna Ghosh for the…

The Industrial Revolution Started It, AI Finished It.

A brief history of value destruction, and why there’s no way back

New Tunes Tuesday! Week of 05.12.26

Koe Wetzel, Gavin Adcock, Midland, Larry Fleet, Max McNown, Jo Dee Messina, Maddox Batson, Spencer Crandall, Brantley Gilbert, Brandon…