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The Register, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Meet 'Roy' who toiled at a company that did work related to tissue donations and organ transplants. 'The on-call duties were a bit hair-raising due to the high stakes involved,' Roy told On Call. 'Thankfully, things typically ran well and I didn't get too many calls in the off hours.'
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The Register, Monday, August 31st, 2026
This week, meet 'Martin' who told us about his very first job in tech. 'I had just started working as a network engineer for a very small IT infrastructure company. Since I was the only person who worked with Cisco gear, that made me 'The Cisco expert',' he told The Register.
more → The Register, Friday, August 28th, 2026
An executive mistook a photocopier for a fax machine, producing a memorable tech support call.
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The Register, Friday, August 28th, 2026
The BOFH battles petty cash bureaucracy with quantum physics metaphors and a staged laptop incident.
more → The Register, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
A Scottish digital billboard has been stuck on a Debian login prompt since its operator went into liquidation.
more → The Register, Monday, August 24th, 2026
A maintenance batch script meant to defrag Exchange deleted critical Windows NT 4 system files instead.
more → The Register, Monday, August 17th, 2026
A technician forcing a heatsink onto a CPU knocked a surface-mounted component clean off the board.
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The Register, Friday, August 14th, 2026
IT staff fabricate uptime statistics using invented jargon that management never questions.
more → TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
An On Call war story: a sabotaged Pick system, an emergency callout, and a fix that was plugging it back in.
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TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
A developer's Python 2-to-3 upgrade workaround stayed hidden in production for eight years.
more → The Register, Friday, August 7th, 2026
A highly credentialed lawyer demanded urgent IT support to learn why his email text appeared slanted.
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The Register, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
An IT department's sticky-note credential handout let a contractor access proprietary data remotely.
more → The Register, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
A nine-year-old's accidental Unix command caused 36 hours of repair work on company systems.
more → The Register, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Retired software support specialist recalled to restore archived documents for a tax audit using decades-old application knowledge.
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The Register, Monday, July 27th, 2026
A construction manager accidentally deleted all files on a colleague's PC using the DOS command DEL *.* during the 1980s.
more → The Register, Sunday, July 26th, 2026
A cunning IT administrator outsmarts a printer service engineer using his own playbook of delaying tactics.
more → The Register, Friday, July 24th, 2026
A new support hire automated overnight batch fixes, ending night calls and angering colleagues who relied on overtime.
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The Register, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
A red teamer bypassed hospital security using scrubs, a fake badge and complaints about a difficult doctor.
more → The Register, Monday, July 20th, 2026
A developer hired for Visual Basic wrote C# instead and hit a bug that vanished without explanation.
more → The Register, Friday, July 17th, 2026
A support agent fixed an irate customer's phone complaint by pointing her to the charger still sitting in the original box.
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The Register, Monday, July 13th, 2026
A manager took down his company's entire network with a weekend-long Nmap scan, then blamed malware picked up on a business trip.
more → The Register, Friday, July 10th, 2026
A tech worker jury-rigged a server-room UPS to power a stadium control room and save a big match.
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The Register, Friday, July 10th, 2026
The BOFH and PFY endure absurd cross-department AI pitches at the pub, with chaotic results.
more → The Register, Monday, July 6th, 2026
An apprentice secretly automated a Y2K task, then later inherited support for her own buggy creation.
more → The Register, Friday, July 3rd, 2026
A VP mistook a disk error message for a hacker named General Failure infiltrating his computer.
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The Register, Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Red teamers gained network admin access via social engineering and physical security gaps at a client site.
more → The Register, Monday, June 29th, 2026
A junior sysadmin dropped an expensive SCSI drive and fabricated a fault story to avoid consequences.
more → The Register, Friday, June 26th, 2026
The BOFH and PFY use an equipment amnesty day to dump broken gear and scheme insurance fraud, snaring their boss.
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The Register, Friday, June 26th, 2026
A security director ordered MFA rolled back, blaming it for an invoicing failure caused by buggy software.
more → The Register, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
A young programmer who fixed a dangerous file-deleting batch command got reprimanded rather than praised.
more → The Register, Friday, June 19th, 2026
A tech support worker calmly explains Word's spell-checker to a panicked colleague who had never seen red squiggles.
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The Register, Monday, June 15th, 2026
A bargain tablet purchase goes sideways when a 9-inch device arrives in a supposedly 14-inch box.
more → The Register, Friday, June 12th, 2026
"And uh... what are you doing?" the Head of Security asks, entering the Security office as I'm making my way to the exit – with a PC under my arm.
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The Register, Friday, June 12th, 2026
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Jackson" who told us about his time providing tech support in a university's biology department.
more → The Register, Thursday, June 11th, 2026
A CEO kept all 2,000 staff passwords in an unsecured Excel file and refused MFA, despite prior ransomware.
more → The Register, Monday, June 8th, 2026
A consultant's faulty deletion script wiped hundreds of files, but he escaped blame by reporting it as a bug.
more → The Register, Friday, June 5th, 2026
A county IT staffer called to assist a police raid discovers no computers were needed after a tense standoff.
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The Register, Monday, June 1st, 2026
A contractor threw expensed oranges from a window, baffling a van driver while guards hunted the culprit in vain.
more → The Register, Friday, May 29th, 2026
A chandelier's clockwork mechanism destroyed network cables, shutting down an oligarch's investment firm's entire floor.
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TheHackersNews, Monday, May 25th, 2026
Weekly cybersecurity recap covering GitHub breach via poisoned VS Code extension, Linux kernel vulnerability, and Microsoft Defender zero-days.
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The Register, Monday, May 25th, 2026
An entry-level IT technician accidentally disrupted a clinic's network by misconfiguring VoIP phone ports but refused to claim overtime for the extra work required to fix it.
more → The Register, Friday, May 15th, 2026
A database specialist on-call during the Macau Grand Prix celebrates too early before discovering a critical application failure.
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The Register, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
A pentester gained root access by social engineering IT staff who prioritized being helpful over security procedures.
more → The Register, Monday, May 11th, 2026
A lab worker disguised a microwave as a PC to hide it from his overzealous manager.
more → The Register, Friday, May 8th, 2026
A technician is blamed for a PC malfunction that turns out to be caused by an unplugged network cable.
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The Register, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
A CISO advisor successfully guessed a client's admin password by trying "rosebud" from Citizen Kane, highlighting poor password practices.
more → The Register, Monday, May 4th, 2026
A council IT worker accidentally left an unauthorized DHCP server running on the network before taking a week off, causing chaos.
more → Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Two recent indictments highlight how criminal law struggles to apply traditional theft concepts to information, which cannot be stolen in the traditional sense.
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The Register, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
A fintech startup stored database root credentials and AWS keys in a password-protected Excel file on a shared intranet.
more → The Register, Monday, April 27th, 2026
Colleagues in the early 2000s pranked coworkers by creating looping PowerPoint presentations of their screenshots.
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