President Obama's declaration of a national swine flu emergency should send up a red flag to IT managers at businesses that are still unprepared for a pandemic.
Cisco WLAN security alert warns of four vulnerabilities affecting all of Cisco’s wireless LAN controllers, including the Catalyst 6500 and 7600 wireless modules, with software version 4.2 or higher.
The World Health Organization (WHO) took the dramatic step of raising its pandemic alert level to Phase 5 Wednesday -- one level shy of declaring swine flu a full-blown pandemic.
E.U.'s mobile-phone industry on Wednesday signed up to eCall, a Europe-wide road accident alert system designed to reduce fatalities and serious accidents on the continent's roads.
Start-up Behavioral Recognition Systems, known as BRS or sometimes BRSLab, makes its debut with plans to release a video-analytics product that will be able to take any digital-video data, determine whether the surveillance images represent unusual or suspicious activity, and hand that intelligence off as an alert to a converged physical and network security system.
Mac antivirus maker, Intego, has published an interesting alert about a potential OS X virus that an enterprising individual is trying to sell through auction. With absolutely no technical information to go on, the antivirus maker is treating the announcement with caution.
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If the World Health Organization (WHO) raises the pandemic threat alert to Level 6 -- it's already just one notch below that at Level 5 -- companies now scrambling to figure out business continuity issues will have to do more than tell sick employees to stay home and healthy ones to wash their hands.
Two years ago, financial services firms tested a pandemic scenario that began with a few flu cases and ended in a workplace absenteeism rate as high as 50%. There was also a breakdown in basic services, resulting in garbage piling up on the streets. The premise -- a worse-case senario designed to stress the response -- was that the World Health Organization (WHO) had reached alert phase 5, a pandemic, and escalated from there.
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