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Security lessons learned from Californian power outage

The 9th of September 2011 saw a power outage in the US affecting 5 million people in the area of Southern California - the root cause analysis of which is said to have been one single employee switching out a piece of problematic equipment. The upshot of this single act is nevertheless extremely worrying, as it manifested in traffic chaos, cancelation of flights, the shutting down of two nuclear reactors, a widespread impact on business, and on the residents.

: PROFESSOR JOHN WALKER FBCS, CITP,CISM, CRISC, ITPC; InfoSecurity; Posted On Monday, 12 September 2011 17:39

AND THE TEARS FLOW

A poem marking the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

And the tears flow again

Gushing down my cheeks

Like the Meribah waters

And the tears flow again

Cascading down my cheeks

Like the falling waters of Victoria

Flowing down intractably and inconsolably

And the tears flow again

Bringing back that sad memory

: JOHN ODEY ADUMA, BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR AND EDITOR OF VIGILANCE; Terrorism Watch; Posted On Sunday, 11 September 2011 03:34

9/11...Urgent need for World Safety and Security Summit (WSSS): An SOS from Vigilance to world leaders

The enemy increaseth every day;

We, at the height, are ready to decline.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries

On such a full sea are we now afloat,

An if we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

- William Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar

: JOHN ODEY ADUMA, BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR AND EDITOR OF VIGILANCE; Terrorism Watch; Posted On Sunday, 11 September 2011 01:36

Serve and Remember

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Good morning,

On this occasion of the tenth anniversary of the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, we mourn the innocent lives lost, honor the heroic first responders who rushed to the scene, and pay tribute to our troops and military families who have served over the past ten years to keep us safe and strong.