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The business expo held by the Dundalk chamber last year was so successful it has been decided another one will be held this year. The event is to take place on June 22nd starting at 7:30 AM at the Sparrows Point Country Club. The event is proud to announce the…

Tax season is upon us, and of course, with that comes fraud season. Tax season has only been underway for about a month, beginning on January 19th, 2016, and already the IRS is reporting surges in phishing and malware. Reports indicate as rise by as much as 400% from last…

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of data protection mandates developed by the major payment card companies and imposed on businesses that store, process, or transmit payment card data. As part of their contracts with the card companies, merchants and other businesses that handle…

If there is one thing to be said about ransomware attacks it is that recovering your data encrypted by the attack is next to impossible, so it is best to just properly protect yourself in the first place. A ransomware attack is when an online attacker, or cybercriminal steals and…

Has your business data been backed up recently? World Backup day is not only a day that promotes backing up all your valuable data, but it’s also a day to talk about the enormous task of preserving our increasingly digital heritage for future generations. {company} recommends though that every day…

There is a growing epidemic in today’s business environment. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are becoming increasingly common among business and personal servers. As these attacks become more frequent, the criminals behind them grow more and more effective. Compared to this time last year, the number of reported occurrences…

The Internet has been around for quite awhile now, having birthed entire industries and changed the way economies function. Having been a primarily benevolent force to the world by providing jobs and advancing knowledge in general, among many other things, it has also provided new avenues and outlets for criminals…

Many experts believe that we are now entering a new era of hacking, cyber attacks, and threats to cybersecurity. If you just read or watch the news on a regular basis, it is very easy to see why experts hold this point of view. Every day there are news reports…

Staggering statistics were published stating that by 2019, the managed-services market is expected to see growth by as much as $193 billion . What is it about this particular business model that is so wildly successful? It seems a large percentage of small- and medium-sized businesses are very much in…

Major news sites have been exploited by hackers using a malware exploit package known as the “Angle exploit kit.” Some of the targeted sites include The New York Times, BBC, Newsweek, AOL, MSN, The Hill, and the Guardian. A bit of dark humor is in that one of the infected…