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Parkville High School students to participate in Cybersecurity Project Symposium

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

PARKVILLE, MD—Five Baltimore County high schools will partner with Cisco Systems Networking Company to host a Virtual Cisco Cybersecurity Project Symposium on Wednesday, May 5. The participating high schools — Eastern Technical, New Town, Parkville, Sollers Point, and Western School of Technology – all offer Cisco-IT Networking completer programs. “This is our inaugural systemwide cybersecurity symposium,” said Howard L. Jackson, […]

MDTA’s DriveEzMD portal goes live in Maryland

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Transportation Authority on Thursday launched DriveEzMD, a new access point for the state’s toll facilities featuring a new website, web chat, expanded customer call center, new toll payment choices, text notifications and more. Now that DriveEzMD is live, all MDTA Customer Service Centers have reopened to the public with COVID-19 protocols still in effect. DriveEzMD.com is online […]

Officials: Baltimore County 311 down again

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

NOTTINGHAM, MD—A 311 outage is once again affecting Baltimore County. On Wednesday morning, the county said that another Verizon outage was disrupting all 311 services. “We request your patience as we await resolution of this issue,” county officials said. “As a reminder, please do not call 911 for non-emergencies.” All 911 lines are currently fully operational. There has been no […]

311 outage affecting Baltimore County

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

UPDATE: 311 service has been restored. Original story below… —— NOTTINGHAM, MD—A 311 outage is affecting Baltimore County. On Tuesday morning, the county said that, due to a regional Verizon outage, all 311 lines were down. “We request your patience as we await resolution of this issue,” Baltimore County officials said. “Please do not call 911 for non-emergency issues.” There […]

Hotspot recall affects some Baltimore County Public Schools families

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

TOWSON, MD—Approximately 650 mobile hotspot devices being used by Baltimore County Public Schools’ families have been recalled by Verizon. During the past year, BCPS schools distributed 8,000 hotspots from multiple wireless carriers to families to provide internet access for virtual learning. Verizon has issued a nationwide recall of 2.5 million Ellipsis Jetpack hotspots, due to a small risk of overheating […]

Maryland Tech Council receives $378,000 federal grant to aid Baltimore County businesses during COVID-19

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD—The Maryland Tech Council on Wednesday announced that it will receive a $378,000 federal CARES Act grant to significantly expand its Business Continuity Task Force to assist more entrepreneurs in Baltimore County as they navigate COVID-19’s economic impact. Awarded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the grant enables MTC to expand the task force’s mentoring services to tech […]

Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office seizes 3 additional domain names associated with fraudulent COVID-19 treatments

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

BALTIMORE, MD—The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has seized three additional domain names associated with fraudulent COVID-19 treatments. Authorities have seized “healthbridgescience.com,” “global-pandemic-vaccines.com,” and “genobioscience.com,” all of which purported to be the websites of actual biotechnology companies developing treatments for the COVID-19 virus but instead were allegedly used to collect the personal information of individuals visiting the […]

MEMA launches MdReady WebApp during Maryland Severe Storms Awareness Week

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Emergency Management Agency is encouraging residents to practice what to do in the event of a tornado as part of Severe Storms Awareness Week, April 5-9, 2021. MEMA is also launching a new mobile website application during the week. The MdReady WebApp replaces the existing Maryland Prepares App and provides instant access to a wide array of […]

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