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Hurricane #Michael – Florida Take action.

#HurricaneMichael, seen here by #GOESEast, strengthened to a Cat. 4 storm and is now approaching the Florida Panhandle. The @NHC_Atlantic warns that life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall are imminent. Latest: http://go.usa.gov/xP9RX NOAA publish his Advisory Number 15 at 4:00 AM CDT Wednesday, Oct 10th. Hurricane Michael is extremely dangerous Category 4 heading toward the Florida Panhandle... Keep reading.   FEMA's text messaging program allows people to look up Emergency Shelter locations via SMS. Text SHELTER and your zip code to 43362 (4FEMA) to find an Emergency Shelter in your area. b\ Standard message and data rates apply. Follow:  @femaregion4 in Twitter. If you need the text version go to: … [Read more...]

Watch Live #Google #Crisis_Response #HurricaneFlorence | Interactive Google Map w/data from NOAA, FEMA, NRL, weather.gov & more

On Sunday September 16, The official Twitter feed of the N.C. Department of Transportation — NCDOT (@NCDOT) post the following message and image: We know you're worried about property in eastern NC. -Every major route, and those around them, to the coast is flooded. -This isn't over. Water will rise for several days. -Few routes open, help keep them clear for emergency personnel. -Dangerous power lines and trees down pic.twitter.com/qf8cgd4etF — NCDOT (@NCDOT) September 16, 2018 FEMA has Hurricane Florence Rumor control page: https://www.fema.gov/florence-rumors  As 11 a.m. Sunday September 16, the Advisory Number 69 of the National Hurricane Center, said that Tropical Depression Florence continues to produce widespread heavy rains over much of North Carolina and Northern South … [Read more...]

NO HATE – Time to work

The elections are finally over, and we have a new President, Donald Trump. Whatever you thought it might not happen, happened. A candidate outside of the political arena won and became the most powerful man on earth. Regardless if you are a liberal, conservative or non-partisan you have to agree, the comparisons cannot be made with Donald Trump and any other President, such a candidate has never been seen in the history of the United States nor any other country. The Electoral College added up and the results were clear, Mr. Trump became the 45th President, even if the majority of the popular votes brought Clinton as the favorite for more than 48% vs. 47%. The election is done, but not the work that is a head. Now what? Marching against the electoral college’s vote’s results … [Read more...]

Aggressive Ransomware campaign was recently released

A particularly aggressive Ransomware campaign was recently released.  It was observed and mention by several Companies around the world, their IT departments had notified that more than 120,000 E-Mails were sent daily over the last weeks. Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts files and demands payment for the decryption key. In the latest strain: The spam subject is an empty, “Fw:”, with a zip file attachment named: xls_convert_recipientname_randomnumber.zip. The body of the message indicates that the attachment contains requested invoices in Excel file format. The other campaign was sent with subject “Profile” containing a similar zip file attachment. The name of that attached file is: recipientname_profile_randomnumber.zip. As always, we suggest … [Read more...]

Jet.com blasting into e-commerce

Last Thursday’s event, hosted in Brickell’s Building & Co., brought Jet.com’s Director of Program Management Rick Paster to inform the Miami tech-scene about the company and some key strategies being implemented. Jet.com is an e-commerce site where adding a product to the checkout cart unlocks discounts for other similar, complimentary products, almost on an endless pathway; the user sees savings go up as the quantity of goods purchased also goes up. The company has been coined the “Amazon-killer”; however, Paster made the important point that the company does not consider itself a killer or competitor to Amazon, as there is room for many, diverse players in the e-commerce industry. It was refreshing to hear an executive reminding the public that competition and … [Read more...]