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Hurricane season officially begins in 24 hours and many are doing nothing about it.

2008-05-31 03:50:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...hurricane season According to the broadcaster, 50% of people living in areas that are most likely to be hit by hurricanes have not conducted any disaster planning whatsoever. Of people surveyed, 30% admitted that they will wait until they hear warnings on the television before they do anything. The report said that this is the first time...
 
Tags: hurricane, hurricane season, people, weather channel yesterday, rita struck, garages, hurricanes, time, huricanes katrina
 
 
 
 
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Disaster recovery paramount now that hurricane season is here

2008-06-11 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
With hurricane season starting this month, businesses need to establish and test plans for how they will protect network data and gear, and recover from outages, the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education says
 
Tags: hurricane season, protect network data, test plans, outages, education, businesses, recover, month, establish
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...hurricane landfall or in the event of dirty bomb detonation; 4) design a mall which can compel customers to shop to the point of bankruptcy, to walk obliviously for miles and miles and miles, endlessly to the point of physical exhaustion and even death; 5) identify, if possible, the tell-tale signs of a peaceful crowd about to metamorphosize...
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...Hurricane Ivan was by far the worst thing Ive ever been through, and there have been many In September of 2004, I was working on a project in Montgomery , and had to be there the day before the storm arrived. Things seemed normal enough at work, until everyone spent the second half of the day gossiping over whether or not they would have to...
 
Tags: home, home tuesday night, head home, call home, road warrior, tuesday, road, night, home friday night
 
 
 
 
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Are you operationally ready to recover from a non-disaster?

2008-03-20 14:13:38 by Bill Peldzus, Contributor in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Is your data center more prepared to recover from a hurricane than a database corruption, a virus, or accidental file deletion? Find out why you should focus on recovering from non-disasters
 
Tags: accidental file deletion, database corruption, recover, data center, hurricane, focus, virus, non-disasters
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...hurricane wind speed varies throughout the lifetime of the storm, and strength can change throughout the lifetime of a control One or more of the values being measured may vary across a population (e.g., not all hurricanes have the same wind speed When absolute scales apply Warning: This is an illustration and not an engineering exercise, for...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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Case Study: Simplified DR Planning and Implementation

2008-05-05 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Dell & VMWare) LifeLink Foundation needed to provide business continuity and DR of critical transplant related information to multiple locations and needed to manage DR planning and implementation in a hurricane zone. Learn how VMware & EqualLogic worked together to implement two remote sites providing consolidated virtual storage,...
 
Tags: provide business continuity, vmware, critical transplant, hurricane zone, virtual storage, lifelink foundation, implementation, remote sites, multiple locations
 
 
 
 
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Hacker compromised Red Cross earthquake relief site

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b57c24 in Network World on Security
 
Hurricane Katrina proved a fertile ground for fraudsters to scam money off those willing to help the needy. Now the China earthquake has bread a new variant of the morally reprehensible, with donated funds being siphoned off one charity site
 
Tags: china earthquake, charity site, hurricane katrina, fertile ground, scam money, funds, fraudsters, reprehensible, bread
 
 
 
 
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Did Hackers Cause the 2003 Northeast Blackout? Umm, No

2008-05-30 18:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The latest cyberterrorism fairy tale circulating in Washington posits that Chinese government hackers were responsible for the worst power failure in U.S. history. Next week: How Chinese hackers caused Hurricane Katrina, the mortgage crisis and climate change
 
Tags: cyberterrorism fairy tale, chinese government hackers, worst power failure, hurricane katrina, chinese hackers, washington posits, mortgage crisis, history, change