news headlines: 12th AUGUST 2003

Traditional disaster recovery methods are inadequate warns Basex
Organisations should use ‘collaborative business knowledge tools’ to prepare for unusual emergencies.
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•Date: 12th August 2003 • Region: N.America/W.wide •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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ConSec '03 ‘Preserving the infrastructure’
Austin, Texas September 16-18, 2003.
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•Date: 12th August 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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New chair for SunGard Availability Services advisory board
Julia Graham, group risk manager for Royal & SunAlliance and UK Business Continuity Personality of the Year, appointed.
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•Date: 12th August 2003 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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New four-way processing blades launched
Egenera gives customers more options for moving business-critical applications to server blades.
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•Date: 12th August 2003 • Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Blaster worm spreading widely
CERT/CC has issued a warning concerning the rapid propagation of a new worm that appears to exploit known vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Interface.
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•Date: 12th August 2003 • Region: Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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London Underground to conduct anti-terrorism exercise
Will take place at Bank Underground station on Sunday 7th September.
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•Date: 12th August 2003 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Report suggests overhaul of terror-warning system: CNN
Colour-coded system is vague and too expensive.
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•Date: 12th August 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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