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Monstrous Explosion Rocks Texas Fertilizer Plant
April 18, 2013 12:42 pm | by JOHN L. MONE & MICHAEL BRICK,Associated Press | News | CommentsRescue workers searched the smoldering ruins of a fertilizer plant Thursday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that leveled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.
Judge Chides Army Corps Over New Orleans Levees
April 17, 2013 4:30 pm | News | CommentsThe Army Corps of Engineers built a "tragically flawed" levee system for New Orleans — but isn't liable for claims that excavation work by a government contractor weakened a floodwall and caused it to breach in two places during Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge has ruled.
Radio Scans Show Boston Police, Medic Heroics
April 17, 2013 4:20 pm | by JACK GILLUM & STEPHEN BRAUN,Associated Press | News | CommentsThe urgent and sometimes garbled appeals that flickered across Boston's emergency services radio bands gave full voice to the split-second and pressurized decisions that the city's police and fire uniformed and supervisory officials made under the extreme duress of a long, hard day.
'Software Issue' Grounds American Airlines Flights From Coast To Coast
April 17, 2013 3:46 pm | by DAVID KOENIG,AP Airlines Writer | News | CommentsA massive technology failure forced the nation's third-largest carrier to ground all planes from coast to coast. The company blamed the breakdown on a "software issue" that knocked out both primary and backup computer reservation systems. Passengers took to social media sites to criticize the airline, which for hours could only apologize and say that it was trying to fix the problem.
EVault Launches Industry-Pioneering Cloud Disaster Recovery Service In EMEA
April 17, 2013 3:24 pm | News | CommentsEVault, Inc., a Seagate Company, has announced that its market-leading EVault® Cloud Disaster Recovery Service with a guaranteed Service Level Agreement (SLA) is now available from EVault and its partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Copy, Paste, Paste, Paste. Why Three Levels Of Backup May Be Just Enough.
April 16, 2013 2:45 pm | by EVault | Webinars | CommentsTuesday, April 30, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. EDT The typical data backup and restore solution usually relies on a locally-replicated copy of your data and a remote off-premises backup. But if you run a mission-critical enterprise where losing data or disrupting business continuity is not an option, even these sensible scenarios may not cut it anymore.What if your local copy is corrupted or doesn’t go far enough in time, and your cloud-hosted backup is off-line or damaged in a disaster? This is when you’ll wish you had the third copy of your data available.In this webinar, you’ll learn how do determine if you need this third level of protection, how this additional level of data protection can be implemented, and interesting use cases and best practices. REGISTER TODAY
Investigators Seek Answers After Boston Bombings
April 16, 2013 8:01 am | by JIMMY GOLEN,Associated Press | News | CommentsThe bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world's most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, and three dead. Federal investigators said no one had claimed responsibility for the bombings on one of the city's most famous civic holidays, Patriots Day. But the blasts among the throngs of spectators raised fears of a terrorist attack.
Two Killed As Two Bombs Explode At Boston Marathon
April 15, 2013 5:37 pm | by JIMMY GOLEN,Associated Press | News | CommentsTwo bombs exploded near the crowded finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 50 others in a terrifying scene of broken glass, smoke and severed limbs, authorities said. A third blast rocked the John F. Kennedy Library a few miles away and more than an hour later.
Duty Of Care: Not Just A Travel Issue
April 15, 2013 1:50 pm | by Lisa M. Reshaur, Ph.D. & Lynne M. Silverstein, Manager, PwC LLP, Risk Consulting Services | Articles | CommentsAs one client recently noted, "I don't want my company's name in the news because we were able to fly our employees out of a bad situation, but we left our contractors sitting on the tarmac with no way to evacuate." Thinking about Duty of Care only as the small print at the bottom of your travel itinerary won't be enough when a crisis erupts in a foreign country and you don't have a plan to get your staff out safely.
Motive Unclear In VA Community College Shooting
April 14, 2013 4:46 pm | News | CommentsInvestigators said Friday that they don't know what motivated the shootings. Authorities have not said what type of weapon was used or how it was obtained. A student who hid Friday afternoon as the gunfire rang out said the shooter attempted to lure more students out of hiding by pretending he was a police officer.
Police Grapple With Response To Cybercrime
April 14, 2013 4:40 pm | by EILEEN SULLIVAN,Associated Press | News | CommentsIf a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police. If a computerhacker steals $900 from that same person's bank account, what then? Call the police? Could they even help? As it is now, local police don't have widespread know-how to investigate cybercrimes. They rely heavily on the expertise of the federal government, which focuses on large, often international cybercrimes.
NYC Students, Hackers Train For Cybersecurity Jobs
April 14, 2013 4:37 pm | by JAKE PEARSON,Associated Press | News | CommentsEvery week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus and plug in their laptops. They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks. But they're not shadowy criminals: They're students training to become "white-hat" hackers.
Spring Storm Spawns 12 Tornadoes; Three Dead
April 14, 2013 4:32 pm | by HOLBROOK MOHR,Associated Press | News | CommentsA powerful spring storm unleashed tornadoes and winds strong enough to peel the roofs from homes in the Deep South and heaped snow and ice on the Midwest, killing three people and leaving thousands without power. The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that the storm system spawned 12 tornadoes in six states in recent days.
Mail-Gard Partners With DMI To Expand Service Offering
April 12, 2013 5:36 pm | News | CommentsMail-Gard®, a division of IWCO Direct and one of the nation’s leading providers of critical communication recovery solutions, announced it has partnered with Data Management International (DMI) to offer cloud-based document management recovery services including document capture recovery and document management system archiving.
Wild, Unregulated Hacker Currency Gains Following
April 12, 2013 5:31 pm | by RAPHAEL SATTER,Associated Press | News | CommentsSome may wonder whether Caldwell's coins will one day be among the few physical reminders of an expensive fad that evaporated into the electronic ether — perhaps the result of a breakdown in its electronic architecture, or maybe after a crackdown by government regulators. "Movie pirates always win the long game against Hollywood," he said. "Bitcoin works the same way."
