How Dow Trains Towns to Handle Hazmat Situations
How prepared are emergency responders to deal with a chemical spill that could have serious health an environmental implications? The answer to that varies widely depending on the size of the community and the budget of the emergency departments. That's where a program called TRANSCAER comes in.
Surveilled to death
How much are we tracked? How much do we give away? What will the long-term outcome be?
Seven Deadly Sins of Building Security
You've got a few security guards and your CCTV system is up to snuff. You've got your building security covered, right? Think again. While many organizations are taking the steps to ensure their building is secure, many are ignoring basic pieces of the puzzle that is physical security in and around a facility.
Out of business, Clear may sell customer data
Three days after ceasing operations, owners of the Clear airport security screening service acknowledged that their database of sensitive customer information may end up in someone else's hands.
Social Engineering: The Fine Art of BS, Face to Face
Chris Nickerson is willing to push it about as far as a person can go when it comes to security assessments. Nickerson, the founder of security consultancy Lares, is paid to try and dupe a client, and the client's employees, to give them a clear picture of the weak spots in their security plan. He then advises them on how to shore up defenses more effectively in the event a real criminal comes knocking.
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If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
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SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
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What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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