6/29/2012
Steve Dance, Continuity Central
"Social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook are rapidly gaining acceptance as useful tools in the armoury of the incident manager".
6/28/2012
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Susanne Craig, New York Times
"Losses on JPMorgan Chase’s bungled trade could total as much as $9 billion, far exceeding earlier public estimates, according to people who have been briefed on the situation."
6/27/2012
Carl Timberg, Washington Post
"Lax corporate security allowed hackers to steal credit card and other personal information from more than 600,000 customers of Wyndham Worldwide hotels, resulting in at least $10.6 million in fraudulent charges, the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday."
6/26/2012
Dan Frosch, New York Times
"Already choking through one of the worst wildfire seasons in recent memory, Colorado found itself dealing with a new series of blazes this week, driven by a relentless heat wave that has threatened to further fan the flames."
6/25/2012
John Orlando, Contininuity Insights
"Today, within minutes of a disaster, the public begins to self-manage response via Facebook, Twitter, Open Street Map, and other social media systems."
6/22/2012
Peter Eavis and Susanne Craig, New York TImes
"Already grappling with weak profits and global economic turmoil, 15 major banks were hit with credit downgrades on Thursday that could do more damage to their bottom lines and further unsettle equity markets."
6/21/2012
James Glanz, New York Times
"EBay plans to build a data center to handle its billions of dollars in retail transactions that will draw its power from alternative energy fuel cells rather than the national power grid, which is heavily dependent on coal plants."
6/20/2012
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Ben Protess and Michael J. De La Merced
"Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, tussled with lawmakers on Tuesday in his second showdown in Washington since JPMorgan, the nation’s largest bank, disclosed a multibillion-dollar trading loss."
6/19/2012
Jeremy Quittner, American Banker
"Most banks know about the cloud, and many have even started to develop limited private clouds, leveraging the massive computing power of their internal data centers."
6/18/2012
Carol Wolf, Washington Post
"Funding for BioWatch, an early warning system to detect deadly pathogens in 30 U.S. cities, may be in jeopardy after cost estimates surged to $5.7 billion, six times the initial assessment."
6/15/2012
Ross Ladley, Continuity Central
"Your organization has spent considerable resources preparing for disruptive events, and now a crisis is looming."
6/14/2012
David Raths, Emergency Management
"When an ice storm hit Austin, Texas, in February 2011, Judy Henry decided it was time to provide real-time public health data to officials in the EOC. "
6/13/2012
Edward Wyatt, New York Times
"The Federal Trade Commission assessed an $800,000 penalty on Tuesday against Spokeo, a data collector that the commission said violated federal law by compiling and selling people’s personal information for use by potential employers in screening job applicants."
6/12/2012
Dan Fitzpatrick, Gregory Zuckerman, JoAnn S. Lublin, Wall Street Journal
"Some top J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -0.02% & Co. executives and directors were alerted to risky practices by a team of London-based traders two years before that group's botched bets cost the bank more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the situation."
6/11/2012
Annie Searle, ASA Newsletter
"The month of May was the beginning of what the oil business would call “a big gusher.” "
6/8/2012
James B. Stewart, New York Times
"If the collapse of the commodities brokerage firm MF Global were a murder mystery, the revelation that $1.6 billion of customer money had disappeared would be the equivalent of finding the corpse."
6/7/2012
Nicole Perlroth, New York TImes
"Security researchers have confirmed that a file containing 6.5 million encoded LinkedIn passwords has been posted to a Russian hacker site."
6/6/2012
Hayley Tsukayma and Ellen Nakasima, Washington Post
6/4/2012
Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post
"It began as a hobby for a teenage computer programmer named John Matherly, who wondered how much he could learn about devices linked to the Internet. "
6/1/2012
James Meacham, SAI Global
"There are rarely yelling matches in business ethics."