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Black Swans … or Oil Victims?

June 29, 2010 – 9:15 am – There is an article in The New York Times Magazine of June 6, 2010 by David Leonhardt with the title “Underestimating Risk: What the oil spill and the financial crisis have in common.” It is in a section called “The Way We Live Now,” and next to the section heading there is a drawing of…
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in Contingency Planning, Risk Analysis | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) – Yet Another Critical Infrastructure Concern

December 28, 2009 – 6:00 am – I recently attended several conferences at which the issue of hardware malware – or compromised electronic circuitry – was brought up as a significant threat. There has been disquietude for some time with respect to evildoers purposely inserting circuitry into devices, such as point-of-sales…
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in Cybercrime, General | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)