crisis management

AI assistants can — and do — confidently tell strangers that you committed a crime, voted a different way, or hold beliefs you don’t, and when that happens the damage is immediate, hard to correct, and increasingly baked into products people use for hiring, vetting, and decision-making. This is...

A calm morning was abruptly shattered along one of Orange County’s most iconic corridors as law enforcement responded to an active shooter at a Huntington Beach condominium near Pacific Coast Highway and Coral Cay. The incident, which unfolded just after sunrise, not only forced the temporary...

In the aftermath of natural disasters, the challenge of reconstructing destroyed buildings is both urgent and complex. Traditional methods often fall short in efficiency and accuracy, prompting the need for innovative solutions. Microsoft's recent initiative, "AI-powered Reconstruction of...

Microsoft Outlook users around the world found themselves locked out of critical communications this week as the iconic email service suffered one of the longest and most disruptive outages in recent memory. As screens flashed the now-familiar “Something went wrong” error, what began as a...

Millions of users across the United Kingdom were startled awake to find themselves locked out of their email inboxes as Microsoft Outlook suffered a significant service outage, leaving many unable to access critical communications and disrupting both professional and personal routines. As the...

A sweeping outage rippled across the digital landscape, rattling the world’s most essential cloud services and exposing the fragility of the modern internet’s backbone. For hours, enterprises and everyday users alike found themselves in the crosshairs of a multi-layered technical crisis, as...

As organizations around the world continue to digitalize at a rapid pace, the nature of existential threats facing enterprises has undergone a profound transformation. In an era where cyberattacks can unfold silently, propagate rapidly, and inflict damage much deeper than a fleeting technical...

When it comes to cyber crisis management, most organizations today believe they are prepared. They have shelf-ready incident response (IR) plans, conduct tabletop exercises, and even invest in state-of-the-art detection and response technology. Yet the headlines tell a different story: major...

E& has taken a bold step into the realm of business resilience by launching Business Continuity as a Service (BCaaS). For Windows users and IT professionals alike, this move underscores the growing need to protect critical operations against unexpected disruptions. As enterprises continue to...

Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration took an unexpected turn as internal voices of dissent disrupted what should have been a milestone of innovation and achievement. During the event held at Microsoft’s Washington headquarters, a series of onstage protests underscored the deep ethical...

The early hours of March 13 saw chaos unfold in Jaipur as a massive fire erupted in a fan belt warehouse near Road No. 12 in the Murlipura police station area. The blaze, first discovered by Circle Inspector Virendra Kuril while on night patrol, has since become a dramatic example of rapid...

In a developing story that has caught the attention of Windows users and IT professionals alike, thousands of reports are flooding in regarding an Outlook outage. According to a recent FOX 5 New York report, over 26,000 outage alerts have been recorded, affecting not only Outlook but several...

In a striking reminder of our reliance on cloud-based services, Microsoft recently grappled with an unprecedented outage impacting its 365 suite, including essential services such as Teams, Outlook, and Exchange Online. As millions around the globe faced disruptions and delays, the incident...

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Link Removed Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a downpayment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades. The emergency budget of 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which is likely be followed by more...

Link Removed due to 404 Error The U.S. government is sending some robotic help to Japan to help regain control of the tsunami-damaged nuclear plant. A top Energy Department official told a Senate panel Tuesday that a shipment of "radiation hardened robotics" will be sent to Japan to assist...

The Office Show is in a budget crisis, and the numbers are a mess. In this episode, watch how we use Link Removed and the super-powerful PowerPivot add-in to pull in all the data and discover some, um, surprising results. And once we get that figured out, Link Removed shows us how to use Link...

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday worsened its assessment of problems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant as soldiers and utility workers continued a frantic effort to hose down overheating nuclear fuel with water cannons. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised...

BH Landscape Next week, many of us here will be heading down to Las Vegas for Black Hat. The MSRC, and other teams in Microsoft, have been attending Black Hat for years. In fact, we've been sponsoring the show for the last eight years-the last five as a platinum sponsor. Some might ask why...