“Be Ego Free” – the second part of the FreshySites Ethos.
This mantra flows seamlessly from the first component of our Ethos Serve the Customer.
Haymarket
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Here’s today’s OPM status.
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With every new year come new inventions and discoveries, new risks and areas of opportunities. As even the most private and sensitive areas of our business and personal lives become digitized, new cybersecurity and IT threats arise. IT expert Chris Albright of CMIT Solutions of Centreville considers ransomware, IoT hacking, machine learning, and insufficient IT and cybersecurity to be the largest IT threats of 2018.
Globally, ransomware attacks grew by 56 percent in 2017, with the WannaCry attack being the largest of all time. Ransomware includes any kind of cyberattack in which a business or individual is required to pay a monetary fee in order to regain full access of their computer, breached data or Cloud. There is currently no way around regaining access without paying the ransom — and no guarantee that if you pay, the breached data won’t be compromised once paid. Most ransomware attacks are automated, so it is rare that you currently or will ever be able to determine who is behind your data or computer breach. Payments are often a few hundred dollars paid via cryptocurrency which is extremely difficult to track.
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Woodbridge has long been poised for growth, but it just hasn’t happened yet.
The area is the densest neighborhood in Prince William County. It’s located on the Potomac River, along Interstate 95, and it’s got access to major transit options like Virginia Railway Express, OmniRide, and the E-ZPass Express Lanes.
Good Morning Prince William – The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry is having their Annual Souper Bowl Bingo event on Saturday January 20th from 3-5pm at Alvey Elementary School. Come join all the fun by either purchasing your bingo card for $1 or bring a can of soup, vegetables, beans and the like. Snacks and refreshments will be available for purchase. Please email Kim with any questions at: [email protected].
· Northern Virginia Family Services needs An American Sign Language volunteer to help with their Healthy Families program. Please call Navara at (571) 748-2536 to learn more.
In October, Delegate Tim Hugo (R-Fairfax, Prince William) said he would introduce legislation to require the burial of any new powerline to be built near Haymarket.
Today, he made good on that promise, as he tells us in a press release:
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Local leaders are taking a stand against a plan to hand over to Metro money for allocated for traffic and transit projects in the region to ease congestion and add capacity.
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Chairman Marty Nohe on Tuesday said Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s budget would see some $50 million in new taxes to be raised, funds that would be given to NVTA — the Northern Virginia taxing authority that identifies which traffic and transit projects are in need of funding and then awards the funds.
Starting Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, we will introduce our premium content tier. I hope you will choose to become a member!
Here, our best and most informative work to cover our community — from local government to new and fun things to do with your friends and family — will be featured in our premium content tier.
“No one likes to be given bad news, and a diagnosis of dementia is devastating. How wonderful it would be though if the bad news and negative language stopped at that point.”
So begins a short article by Wendy Mitchell, who is living with dementia. Wendy says the manner in which care providers communicate can have a profound effect on a patient’s ability to cope with a chronic medical condition.
Here’s today’s OPM status.