Digitization – the big challenge for IT security

Digitization – the big challenge for IT security

While researching for this article, I was struck by how casually “digitization” is thrown around as a boardroom buzzword. It is treated as an abstract umbrella term for a hyper-connected society moving at breakneck speed, with almost nobody in executive leadership considering the catastrophic operational fallout. For enterprises, this digital transformation is the modern equivalent of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. Back then, no one could accurately predict how mechanization would reshape labor, supply chains, and state power. Today, corporate leaders […]

How I take over your business

How I take over your business

In 1987, I drove my instructor at Comparex to absolute despair. I exploited a basic security flaw on a 3270 screen controller for terminals attached to a /370 mainframe. Back then, batch files executed with higher priority than executables. I engineered a batch script that created a ripple effect across the screen, endlessly printing: “I’m a little virus.” Every executed command subsequently copied a payload of dummy batch files across all connected terminals. It sounds like a prank—and it was—but […]