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Mexico City commemorates 1985 disaster with earthquake drill
Nearly 25,000 died in Mexico City’s earthquake 22 years ago; city commemorates with a large drill in which 3 million residents participate
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New York City to pilot comprehensive emergency notification system
NYC signs up a Houston, Texas company to deploy an emeregency notification system based on messages being sent via cell broadcast
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Mechanical mole seeks out disaster survivors under collapsed buildings
Robots already roll, walk, slither, and even “swarm” to locate or help survivors, so why not dig and burrow? University of Manchester rsearchers build a digging robot which imitates the common European mole
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IT is too important to leave to IT specialists
How and why the IT function needs to change its relationship with the business
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Verizon extends DOS service to Asia
Denial of Serivce (DOS) is a popular form of cyberattacks directed at companies; Ceirzon already offered U.S. and European companies an enhanced DoS protection service, and it now extends the service to Asia
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Attacks on Mexico's oil, natural gas infrastructure increase
Mexico has a 30,000-mile network of energy pipelines; the network is exceedingly vulnerable to attacks; a shadowy terrorist group takes advantage, injuring the country’s economy
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VMware shows new disaster recovery solution
Traditional disaster recovery programs tend to be complex and their implementation demanding; new solution aims to simplify and automate many disaster recovery-related functions
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PC users face increasingly complex and dangerous cyber threats
Authrotative cyber threat report says that targeted identity theft, emerging risks associated with online gaming, a doubling of malware exploits, and new software vulnerabilities are but some of the many problems PC users will face in the coming months
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CrimeCog Technologies aquires E*Justice
E*Justice helps different law enforcement departments share information; in addition, one department’s information storage may keep information intact for all other subscribers in the event of a disaster
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IBM acquires DataMirror
DataMirror has a technology to identify and capture data that has been added, updated, or deleted — and make that data available to decisionmakers in real time
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Tokyo unprepared for disaster
Sounds familiar: Government study finds that magnitude 7.3 earthquake hitting the northern part of Tokyo Bay would leave about 600,000 people wondering the streets becasue of lack of evacuation centers
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California company offers preparedness tools for families, individuals
Not only organizations, but individuals and families, too, should prepare for catastrophes; AxcessPoints offers Top 10 disaster tips for the digital world
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Researchers print blood vessels with modified ink jet printer
Japanese researchers use a mixture of living cells, a special type of medical gel, and a solution of calcium chloride — and a device akin to a modified inkjet printer — to print blood vessels
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High rise evacuation system receives SAFETY certification
Safely evacuating thousands of people out of a high rise during a disaster is tricky; a Florida company’s evacuation product recieves DHS nod
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The long view
Trump Aims to Shut Down State Climate Policies
President Donald Trump has launched an all-out legal attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy. Climate-focused state leaders say his administration has no legal basis to unravel their efforts.