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Human error leads to Tumblr security breach

...data for social-blogging service Tumblr was exposed on Saturday due to human error, the company has said. Tumblr said its technicians took immediate action... Read more

21 March, 2011

LSE trading pool crash due to 'human error

...Stock Exchange was knocked offline for two hours on Tuesday due to human error, in what may have been suspicious circumstances, the stock exchange said... Read more

3 November, 2010 by Jack Clark
How Monitoring Systems Reduce <endeca_term>Human Error</endeca_term> in Distributed Server Rooms and Remote Wiring Closets

How Monitoring Systems Reduce Human Error in Distributed Server Rooms and Remote Wiring Closets

...many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple incompetence brought their server rooms down. This paper... Read more

20 January, 2011
IPv6 security: What you need to know

IPv6 security: What you need to know

...as they have been for IPv4. Most security incidents are caused by human error, either as the result of a programming error or through misconfiguration... Read more

5 May, 2012 by Axel Pawlik
Oracle Storage Solutions for Data Protection & Business Continuity

Oracle Storage Solutions for Data Protection & Business Continuity

...organization. Loss of data due to lack of preparedness for equipment failure, human error, or natural disaster can adversely affect operational continuity. An organization must... Read more

25 April, 2012
Oracle Storage Solutions for Data Protection and Business Continuity

Oracle Storage Solutions for Data Protection and Business Continuity

...organization. Loss of data due to lack of preparedness for equipment failure, human error, or natural disaster can adversely affect operational continuity. An organization must... Read more

1 March, 2012
TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.14

TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.14

...these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table). PhotoRec is file data... Read more

16 April, 2012
TestDisk and PhotoRec 6.14

TestDisk and PhotoRec 6.14

...these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table). PhotoRec is file data... Read more

16 April, 2012

Metropolitan police leak victims' email addresses

...were formal complaints. "The sharing of the data was the result of human error and occurred on Monday 30 January when the Crime Recording and... Read more

3 February, 2012 by David Meyer

ICO fines Powys £130,000 for child data breach

...through the courts." ZDNet UK understands that the papers were mixed through human error. The two different cases concerned people who lived close to each... Read more

7 December, 2011
Panorama 6.0.0b94356

Panorama 6.0.0b94356

...redundant architecture protects your vital data from power failures, system crashes and human error. Total Recall means that all your data bounces back after any... Read more

2 November, 2011

Worried your cloud provider will go bust? Seven ways to protect your business

...does not completely safeguard a service provider from being brought down. Hacks, human error and natural disasters could also cause a cloud provider to fail... Read more

8 September, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Survey: security still top concern over cloud

...and software failure such as failed cooling and power, and of course human error, which Roudebush reckoned accounts for about 15-20 percent of downtime... Read more

21 April, 2011
Cloud security: Apps need tough bodyguards

Cloud security: Apps need tough bodyguards

...is another matter. Too often complacency can undermine even comprehensive security strategies. Human error, too, can ensure the most vigilant fall victim to the constant... Read more

16 April, 2011 by Lori MacVittie

Lack of metrics hobbles security, says Enisa

...on computer systems caused by cyberattacks, software and hardware failure, natural disasters, human error and obsolescence do not have sets of global, or even Europe... Read more

28 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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