Data disasters resulting from cyberattacks and ransomware dominate news headlines. However, the most consistent and costly ...

Network outages can often be traced to four error-prone activities: fault analysis and response, configuration changes, scaling and failover, and security policies. You might have been alarmed to read ...

NEW ORLEANS — The December 2019 explosion that knocked out a major source of electricity for the city’s drainage pumps was likely caused by operator error, according to a consultant’s incident report, ...

For more than two decades, experts have been pleading for the human factors lessons learned from aviation safety to be applied to the growing toll of iatrogenic injuries in medicine. Now a new set of ...

Head of AI innovation initiatives at ABBYY. I write about AI, innovation and how global enterprises can achieve a competitive advantage. Even before the business continuity disruptions last year, ...

Cyber criminals who target schools are looking for vulnerable systems and times of year, but they still overwhelmingly count on human error to succeed, according to ...

Noise is a pervasive source of errors. Wherever human judgment exists, you’ll find it. Unlike bias, however, it is largely invisible. Two felons who should be sentenced to six years for identical ...

Human error related to a lever mix-up was likely behind last month’s crash of a Yeti Airlines flight in Nepal that killed 72 people on board, according to a ...

More than 20,000 people died on American roadways from January to June, the highest total for the first half of any year since 2006. U.S. road fatalities have risen by more than 10 percent over the ...