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by leon on February 26, 2008
Fascinating figures out last week showing that Russia had eclipsed China as the world's biggest producer of malware. The US comes in at number three.As Joe Telafici writes in this latest McAfee...
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by leon on February 21, 2008
With a top adviser warning the Australian Government that climate change is developing faster and more dangerously than previously anticipated, it's worth looking at how business leaders and...
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by leon on February 18, 2008
The fallout from the Société Générale implosion continues. Bloomberg reports that Standard & Poor's has downgraded the bank's long-term counterparty credit rating cut one level to AA-...
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by leon on January 25, 2008
Where do security leaks and IT disasters come from? Look no further than the IT department.According to a recent study by London-based security company Orthus, IT departments are responsible for 30...
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by leon on January 18, 2008
In the past, I have written about how to build a resilient organization. The problem with risk management in many organizations is that they don't know how to pull it all together and incorporate...
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by leon on January 18, 2008
In the past I have raised the question of whether China is headed for a slowdown. It's one of the big issues for 2008 and the answer is important for businesses and economies around the world,...
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by leon on January 11, 2008
Some sobering reading from McAfee about this year's biggest IT disaster zones.McAfee's Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008 tells us to watch out for botnets piggybacking on Storm Worm, the...
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by leon on January 10, 2008
The threat of bird flu has dropped off the radar - thus far, avian influenza has killed just over 200 people worldwide with about half occurring in Indonesia - but that doesn't mean the pandemic...
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by leon on January 07, 2008
So what are the big trends to watch out for in 2008. According to a raft of surveys that came out before Christmas, reported here, the global credit crunch, tougher economic conditions and the chase...
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by leon on January 01, 2008
Will Osama Bin Laden be caught in 2008? Will George Bush pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby? The prediction markets are already taking bets. But predicting the future is not what it used to be....
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by leon on December 29, 2007
When the history of global warming is written, 2007 will stand out as the turning point. That was the year several reports on climate change were released, there was a deal of sorts at Bali and for...
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by leon on December 28, 2007
Photo: BK Bangash/AP The global impact of benazir bhutto's assassination should not be underestimated. All of this has to be seen in context. Oil prices have now soared edging closer to $100 a...
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by leon on December 21, 2007
"Trust us - your personal information is safe". That's probably the biggest e-business lie, according to Professor Michael Parent.After reviewing the privacy and security statements of...
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by leon on December 06, 2007
How things have changed.Executives expect environmental issues, including climate change, to affect shareholder value far more than any other societal issue during the next five years. Their concern...
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by leon on December 03, 2007
More signs of recession coming with Bloomberg reporting that US corporate corporate profits, as measured by the Commerce Department, have fallen at an annual rate of $19.3 billion in the third...
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by leon on November 19, 2007
With Barclay's Bank, Britain's third biggest bank, joining the growing list of banks taking multi-billion hits on subprime and with Goldman Sachs warning that leveraged investors may need to...
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by leon on November 01, 2007
More companies recognize the risks of climate change, but they're struggling to deal with it, according to a new global study. The survey canvassed the views of 2400 companies.The ISS RiskMetric...
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by leon on October 24, 2007
Listed companies seem to have a knack of alienating investors and harming their share price by providing forecasts that are way off target, according to a global study.More than 70 per cent of...
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by leon on October 16, 2007
The rule of thumb with risky investment is that it cuts both ways. The present new opportunities for big gains but there is also the danger of being wiped out. It applies to all sorts of financial...
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by leon on October 09, 2007
Early last year, i did a blog entry looking at the views Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Professor Yossi Sheffi. He argued that many companies struggle with risk management because...
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by leon on October 08, 2007
Do one or two of your employees have very close relationships with vendors? Do any key employees have outside business interests that might conflict with their job duties? Do any appear to dominate...
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by leon on September 25, 2007
A coalition of interests, including investors are petitioning the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to come clean on pollution risks, reports MarketWatch.Basically, the argument...
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