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What would you do if, tomorrow morning, you opened your work laptop to see a ransomware demand? “Oops: Want Your Files Back? Here’s How to Pay”. It’s a pretty terrifying prospect. In that moment, IT and senior management are rushing to restore previous versions via advanced cybersecurity – or if they can’t, they’re considering paying up. As for the rest of your company’s employees, their online training modules in how to prevent a cyber-attack or create a secure password won’t help them here. With all systems down, clients still need servicing. Business continuity can’t ta...

AS I WALK THROUGH the Rainbow Club, the movie  Doc Hollywood plays in my mind. That is the early 1990s (classic?) starring Michael J Fox as hotshot doctor Ben Stone, who is on his way to Beverly Hills when he gets stuck in small Grady, South Carolina, and has to adapt to its laid-back Southern lifestyle. Certainly, the Strip is closer to Water Street in old Henderson than to Grady, but in some ways it feels just as far away. Follow me here: Our Doc Hollywood is Chef Scott Pajak. The 43-year-old culinary expert was a veteran of the Strip for 18 years, namely with the Emeril Lagasse brigade,...

By Staff Maine credit unions raised a record $969,775 to fight hunger in the state, the Maine Credit Union League announced this week in a virtual celebration of the achievement. The latest Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger provided funding to 260 food-based organizations across the state, for a total $10.4 million raised since the initiative was launched in 1990.  “The pandemic changed every facet of our daily lives and, for many Mainers, made it even more difficult to put meals on the table,” said Todd Mason, president and CEO of the Westbrook-based Maine ...

934 Views The LEGO Group has become one of the first companies to sign up to the European Commission’s new Green Consumption Pledge pilot initiative as what the firm has said is a reinforcement of its own commitment to lowering its carbon footprint. The Green Consumption Pledge was detailed at a virtual event hosted in Brussels, Belgium on January 25th, with LEGO joining L’Oreal, Colruyt Groupm and Decathlon as the first to join. The pilot programme is based on a set of five core climate action pledges and requires participating companies to take concrete measures in at least three pledg...

Gender identity education divides principal, school board Lisa Maloney rejected the accusation from Otto Petersen Elementary School's principal of 'hateful comments.' A Scappoose School Board meeting was anything but routine Dec. 14 when an elementary school principal leveled a complaint against a sitting School Board member. Board Chair Michelle Graham read a letter to fellow board members from Otto Petersen Elementary School Principal Jenneca Crocker, which was directed against board member Lisa Maloney. At issue before the board was whether the complaint merited an investigation ...