#human-error

#human-error

Cybersecurity is as much about communication as it is about code. When leadership sends mixed signals - one message in a company memo, another in marketing materials - the inconsistency confuses employees and customers alike. A StratusPoint IT report found that 74% of data breaches involved a human element, including social engineering and error. These incidents often begin with misunderstanding rather than malice.

"For years we had problems with the factory servers shutting down over long weekends," Cole told Who, Me? Nobody could figure out the reason for the outage, but it was generally agreed that external events that took place over long weekends - things like major roadworks or electricity companies working on the grid - caused the issues. IT staff therefore decided acquiring a bigger uninterruptible power supply (UPS) would improve resilience.

Witnesses said the flight appeared normal until Baumgartner's paraglider started spinning to the ground, crashing near a hotel swimming pool. Prosecutor Raffaele Iannella said the investigation found no technical issues with Baumgartner's motorized paraglider. He fell into a spiral, and he could not get out. He was unable to do the maneuver that he should have done to exit [the fall], Iannella told the Associated Press.

In today's work-anywhere culture, people are more connected than ever. As work becomes more mobile and meetings more virtual, one form of cyber threat is quietly becoming more common: audio surveillance. Cybersecurity now extends far beyond protecting email accounts and stored files. In a hybrid working environment, where conversations happen over video conferencing, voice messages and shared screens, it's not only your data that is at risk. The conversation itself can become a target.

Datacenter outages are less frequent but human error persists, with 66-80% of major outages linked to human factors, challenging overall reliability.