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25 Terrifying Information Technology Horror Stories

Information technology bites back: CIO.com presents 25 tales of IT terror

Video footage courtesy of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). Click here to view trailer.

ERP

Remember the 1958 horror flick The Blob? It came to Earth and devoured people, houses and towns by enveloping them in its inexorable mass. Was this a foreshadowing of enterprise resource planning?

Big Government

Just the phrase big government conjures nightmares for some, and in some cases, like those related here, it treads as gracefully as Dr. Frankenstein's monster.

Acts of God (and Others)

Sometimes the blame for information technology catastrophes cannot be laid at the feet of the IT department.

Bad Decisions

Cloning velociraptors? Staying at that quiet little Bates Motel? Sometimes one wrong decision can ruin your whole implementation.

Miscellaneous

A Halloween goody bag of IT mishaps.

 
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