Another Bloody Stormcast, Another Bloody Disaster

Oh for fuck’s sake. It’s Wednesday, February 25th, 2026, and guess what? The SANS Internet Storm Center has dropped another sodding podcast detailing the latest clusterfuck of security vulnerabilities that you lot have inevitably ignored for the past six months.

This time they’re droning on about God-knows-what in episode 9824—probably some critical zero-day that every script kiddie and their grandmother is currently using to deface websites that haven’t been updated since the bloody COVID-19 pandemic. Not that you’d listen, of course. You’re too busy clicking on phishing emails with subject lines like “URGENT: Your Amazon Order of 500kg of Lube” while wondering why your shitty Windows Server 2008 box is spewing ransomware across the network like a fountain of digital herpes.

I can guarantee this Stormcast contains the standard mix of “patch your shit” advice that goes in one ear and out the other of management types who think cybersecurity is just an expensive screensaver. If I had a penny for every time some wet-behind-the-ears admin asked me if they really need to update that exposed Jenkins instance sitting naked on the internet, I could afford to buy the company and fire everyone into the fucking sun.

Look, it’s really simple: if you didn’t piss away your entire IT budget on overpriced coffee machines and ergonomic chairs that look like they were designed by HR after a three-martini lunch, maybe you could afford basic network segmentation. But no, let’s just keep running unpatched Java apps from 2012 because “the business relies on them”—the business relies on them like a tumor relies on a bloodstream, you absolute melts.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32746

Reminds me of the time I convinced a department head that their email latency was caused by “excessive pixel dust” in the monitor. I made the bastard clean their screen with a static-generating cloth for two hours while I “reconfigured the SMTP hamster wheels” at the exchange server. The best part? They thanked me for the “improved throughput” afterward, which was just me removing the bandwidth throttling I’d applied because they kept using Comic Sans in company-wide memos. Some users are too stupid to live, but just competent enough to be entertaining.

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