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- Preparing for Pandemic: Common Practice and Contact Center Planning
- While governments and health agencies have been urging organizations to prepare for a pandemic, there has not been extensive discussion of the unique challenges that such an outbreak would create. Despite the best efforts of organizations to create business continuity and disaster recovery plans for their contact centers, few will...
- Tags: outbreak, contact center, avaya inc., business continuity, call centers, customer relationship management (crm), it services, it operations, enterprise software, software
- White papers 2006-07-01
- CDC looks to cell phones for outbreak containment
- It hasn't happened yet, but what happens if and when avian flu starts to spread from person to person? Well, a lot of bad things, so the need for people in affected areas to take proactive measures is critical. The Centers for Disease Control is...
- Tags: cdc, mobile, evacuation, outbreak
- Blog posts 2006-01-18
- Images: Deadly virtual outbreak
- When a plague hit World of Warcraft recently, innumerable players died temporarily.
- Tags: outbreak
- Image galleries 2005-10-13
- Case Study: The Real Cost of Worm Outbreaks
- A large enterprise had come under attack from the Blaster worm, infecting thousands of desktops and servers. After calculating the losses caused by the worm, the organization realized that the damage caused by the Blaster infection far outweighed investing in an internal security solution. An investment into an internal security...
- Tags: check point software technologies ltd., outbreak, blaster worm, attack, security, viruses and worms
- Case studies
- HITAG S Helps Protect Food Supply
- Animal disease outbreaks are potentially devastating to the meat production industry. Not only do large numbers of infected animals need to be slaughtered, but also the resultant scares can cause huge dips in consumer consumption. It can also take years for consumer confidence to return after such events. The only...
- Tags: food, animal, outbreak, rfid, food & beverage, wireless, security, biometrics, manufacturing
- Case studies
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- DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild
- UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be...
- Tags: query, dns, vulnerability, server, attack, domain names, networking, internet, dancho danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Supercomputers fight against bird flu
- A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the virus and to stay ahead of these mutations....
- Tags: protein, compound, supercomputer, bird flu, scientist, potential candidate drug, team management, cyberthreats, security, management, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs
- Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia. If his proof of concept code consisting of JavaScript or TCP/IP packet attacks on...
- Tags: cpu, intel corp., processors, security, semiconductors, hardware, components, dancho danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Godsw AntiSpyware (exe)
- Godsw AntiSpyware is an essential security you need to safeguard all your data and files. With automatic scans, updates, and outbreak alerts, you can rest easy knowing you have systematic, ongoing protection against the latest malicious viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, and spyware. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: godswantispyware, godsw antispyware, cyberthreats, spyware, spyware, adware & malware, viruses and worms, security
- Software downloads 2008-07-14
- Another Trojan hits Mac OS X
- Another Trojan hits Mac OS XThis is good for AppleI would say that malware counts are the [b]best[/b] indication of desktop PC marketshare so congrats Apple, you really must be doing well now that you are being targeted so much! I'll leave you with a sobering thought:It is easy to...
- Tags: spyware, adware & malware, spyware, microsoft windows, desktops, operating systems, viruses and worms, airline industry, trojan horse, apple macintosh, apple mac os x, apple inc., apple mac os
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wild
- Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wildClarification[i]An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application.[/i]IE7 running in Protected Mode the default in Vista runs with fewer privileges than the current user. Would the exploit run in this context? If so, this malware...
- Tags: security, processors, adobe flash zero-day exploit, adobe flash, adobe systems inc., zero-day bug
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: software, 3d, protein, biomedical, health care, hardware architecture, healthcare, nanotechnology, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Oil's superspike may make telecommuting the norm
- Can the price of crude--currently above $125 a barrel and the high gas prices that go with it--make telecommuting the norm? These questions come up typically with crises and natural disasters. For instance, if there was an avian flu outbreak workers across the U.S. would have to...
- Tags: information technology, worker, telecommuting, help desk, call centers, strategy, human resources, workforce management, it operations, management, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Why flu virus prefers to strike in winter
- You probably have been affected by flu several times in your life, and it has certainly happened in cold winter months, at least if you don't live in tropical countries. Why is the flu virus more infectious when it's cold? A U.S. National Institutes of Health NIH has an explanation....
- Tags: cold calling, flu, virus, cyberthreats, sales tools, viruses and worms, security, sales, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2008 (exe)
- Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2008 is an essential security you need to safeguard all your data and files. With automatic scans, updates, and outbreak alerts, you can rest easy knowing you have systematic, ongoing protection against the latest malicious viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, and spyware. This product is...
- Tags: trend micro inc., antivirus, anti-spyware, spyware, spyware, adware & malware, cyberthreats, viruses and worms, security, productivity
- Software downloads 2008-03-06
- From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals
- From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT ProposalsUnclear or surprising passagesYou wrote:There is an exception: used is still often a bargain if what you’re adding is very small relative to the system it’s going into - but that’s usually small dollars too. For example, adding four CPUs and 64GB to an installed...
- Tags: microsoft windows xp service pack 2, security, evaluating it proposals, service pack 2, microsoft windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals
- This is the sixth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From: 2.2.1.2 Business and purchase opportunities One time spending requests that respond to unique opportunities may, or may not, be legitimate....
- Tags: information technology, board, microsoft windows, corporate governance, financial management, strategy, operating systems, software, business operations, corporate law, financial planning, finance, management, paul murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Will educational software ever be fun?
- MIT's Technology Review recently published an article on a $250,000 research project at Indiana University. The project was designed to create an online virtual world in which researchers could test economic theories: by manipulating the rules of the game, [Indiana University professor Edward Castranova] hoped...
- Tags: game, software, massachusetts institute of technology, games, personal technology, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Skype 2.7 for OS X promises 640x480 at 25 fps
- C0lleague and friend Jim Courtney of Skype Journal has some fiddlin' with Skype's new Skype 2.7 for Mac OS X on his to-do list. Specifically, Jim's fully intending to test what Skype claims is the new "whopping video resolution of 640 x 480 pixels by default...
- Tags: skype technologies s.a., apple mac os x, corporate communications, apple mac os, operating systems, desktops, software, marketing, hardware, russell shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- What's wrong with Facebook
- Doc Searls is complaining that Facebook takes too much time. He's right. The problem is that Facebook is annoying because that's what works. Facebook's success depends on bothering you incessantly and creating things for you to do. Developers have flocked to Facebook as a...
- Tags: google inc., facebook, problem, channel management, marketing, phil windley
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
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