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Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong

Complete Uptime Solutions

Downtime tells the stories of real IT disasters: the outages, ransomware attacks, data breaches and fake invoices that stopped businesses in their tracks, and turns each one into plain-English lessons for Australian business owners. Every Tuesday, one incident, told as a story: what happened, why, and what would have prevented it. Every Thursday, the Downtime Brief: the week's IT and cyber security news that matters to a small or mid-sized Australian business. No jargon, no scare tactics, just what to do about it.

Downtime is brought to you by Complete Uptime Solutions, managed IT and cyber security for Australian businesses. Get a free IT risk snapshot at completeuptimesolutions.com.au or call 02 8214 4612.

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Episodes

14 episodes

  1. Downtime Brief: A Victorian GP Clinic Breach, Fake Online Shops and a Race to Patch VPNs 22:41
  2. DP World: The Weekend Australia's Container Ports Went Dark 17:02
  3. Downtime Brief: The PHP Scramble, Fortinet's Urgent Patches and ASD's Threat Report 23:49
  4. Colonial Pipeline: One Old Password That Emptied the Petrol Stations 22:17
  5. Latitude Financial: The 14 Million Records Nobody Needed Anymore 25:45
  6. The OVHcloud Fire: When the Backup Was in the Same Building 26:23
  7. The Facebook Outage: Six Hours When Facebook Vanished from the Internet 27:02
  8. Atlassian: The Script That Deleted 883 Customer Sites 27:44
  9. Toyota Boshoku: The $37 Million Change of Bank Details 20:27
  10. Kaseya VSA: The Ransomware That Came Through the IT Provider's Front Door 23:54
  11. Medibank: One Saved Password and 9.7 Million Customers 20:50
  12. The Optus Outage: The Day Ten Million Australians Went Quiet 22:18
  13. NotPetya and Maersk: The Shipping Giant Saved by a Blackout in Ghana 23:45
  14. CrowdStrike: The Update That Stopped the World 21:36