Micro Doctor was started in 1989 as a video store technology company and has now evolved into a Managed Service Provider (MSP or Outsourced IT Department for businesses). Managed Services is a highly automated means of maintaining your network PC’s, servers and network devices, is a proactive approach to keeping your network and business running smoothly, instead of the old “break-fix” method.

IT Nation is one of the largest IT and technology events, specifically for companies that sell, service and support technology. Micro Doctor IT had the pleasure of not only attending IT Nation November 8-10, but also speaking at the event as a breakout session.

 
If you haven’t heard of the new cyber-attack called WannaCry, here’s what you need to know.
 

On May 12, hackers launched a global ransomware campaign worldwide affecting tens of thousands of corporate and governmental agencies. Fox news reports over 200,000 victims in more than 150 countries by Monday morning.

Christopher Alan, the owner of AUTOParkit LLC, a Los Angeles-based company, is a Warren native, and after leaving the area for a while, decided to come back home and establish a new plant that would potentially bring 300 to 1,000 new jobs to the area.
Alan bought property on Dana St. in Warren, Ohio for AUTOParkit, and is revitalizing and bringing a multi-million dollar company into an old warehouse.

Did you know that Mill Creek MetroParks is Ohio’s first park district?
Mill Creek Park was established in 1891 by Volney Rogers, who created the park because he believed that “land itself could improve the lives of Youngstown citizens by providing a healthful alternative to the rapidly industrializing city.

Yahoo has had two breaches, one in early 2014 and now one in late 2016.
The FBI has now announced that this is the largest breach in cybercrime history, with over ONE BILLION accounts being hacked.
How? Apparently, it all started with an unsuspecting “spear phishing” email to a Yahoo employee in early 2014 (read more about spear phishing here). That makes this the biggest known hack of user data ever, and no other hack comes near to it.

Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in the growth of the economy.
As businesses begin, some also die, but those that can withstand the toll of time continue to build a reputation and develop into some of the iconic businesses that we know today. The YMCA of Youngstown began serving the community in the 1800s and became an independent, locally controlled Ohio corporation in 1884, which was 32 years after the first YMCA in the United States was founded.

Everyone is talking about it. By it, I mean Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)—a popular, cheap, and effective way to provide telephony to businesses. But you probably didn’t know that VoIP has been around since 1974, did you?

The very first type of VoIP call was known as Network Voice Protocol (NVP) and was made in August of 1974. From there it was turned into the technology we know and use today by a company called Vocaltec in 1995, and in 1998 the first PC to Phone calls began.