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Nude celebrity photo leak throws Apple into a crisis

Nude celebrity photo leak throws Apple into a crisis Just As Apple prepares to launch iPhone 6 the brand suffers another crisis. Here are the facts: On August 31, 2014, ~200 private pictures of various celebrities were posted to the image board website. An investigation by Apple found the photos were stolen from its iCloud service by guessing usernames, passwords and security questions. Here’s Apple’s full statement published on September 2, 2014 2:31 PM EDT: We wanted to provide an…

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Megaprojects, Psychology and Risk Management

Megaprojects, Psychology and Risk Management Often, projects are led by planners and managers who keep changing throughout the long project cycles that apply to megaprojects, have little knowledge of risk management and risk based decision making leaving leadership weak and promoters overexposed. There are numerous biases that can interfere with good mega-projects management. “Uniqueness bias” can be defined as the tendency of planners and managers to see their projects as singular. This particular bias stems from the fact that new projects often…

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BYOD Security: Balancing Risks and Rewards

Security: Balancing Risks and Rewards Riskope thanks Paige Calahan for this post. Bring your own device (BYOD) campaigns involve companies allowing employees to use their own smartphones, tablets and laptops for business. It’s a great perk for employees because they remain connected to their own gear with some financial compensation, and businesses receive more productive and satisfied employees. With all that activity between devices in a cloud computing space, BYOD can “compromise your company information if [employees] don’t have the…

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Special Issue: Mount Polley, B.C., Tailings Dam Breach, Aug. 4th 2014

Special Issue: Mount Polley, B.C., Tailings Dam Breach, Aug. 4th 2014 We have read public information about the tailings dam accident Special Issue: Mount Polley, B.C., Tailings Dam Breach, Aug. 4th 2014 Of course, official inquiries will define causes and responsibilities. What we intend to do with this note is to rationally discuss a few concepts linked to this event.  It seems that, like usual, in the aftermath of a catastrophe, numerous voices raise out of emotional and sometimes irrational perceptions.…

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Mitigate the Risks linked to Employee Failure with Improved Recruitment and Selection

Mitigate the Risks linked to Employee Failure with Improved Recruitment and Selection Riskope thanks Lindsay Edwards for this contribution Many companies aroud the world consider the hazards linked to employee recruitment and retention as very significant. Here are some tips that will help you mitigate the risk linked to employee failure. Understand the need This involves optimizing job specifications and also being sure that you have a proper understanding of your business needs before you commence the recruitment process. The…

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North China early-warning system for quakes

North China early-warning system for quakes North China has seen violent seismic activity, including an 8.2-magnitude earthquake in 1976, killing more than 242,000 people in Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin. That event was one of the deadliest calamities in human history. China started to pay attention to early earthquake warnings after the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people. Many countries, including Japan, Mexico and Turkey are equipped with early warning systems. A real-time system can give warnings within seconds…

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Optimum Risk Estimates, ORE and Aerospace Applications

Optimum Risk Estimates, ORE and Aerospace Applications Smaller satellites are becoming frequent in the so called era of the “nano satellites”. Canada, for example, using an Indian launcher placed simultaneously into orbit, a little more than one year ago, four satellites. Indeed, the drive to miniaturize has been a recurring theme in the space industry for size and weight translate directly into the cost of getting a satellite off the ground (setting into orbit one tonne of equipment costs approximately…

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Great Recession over? U.S. passed employment peak, but…

Great Recession over? U.S. passed employment peak The News A couple weeks ago, reportedly, the US returned to a level of employment comparable to the pre-2008 level. We see the US and other countries (including Greece) slowly emerging from the crisis, in some cases employment getting back to reasonable pre-recession percentages, but many doubts linger. In the same days we also read that “Americans think economy won’t recover until 2017” and we have read many papers on the income speciation.…

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