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In 2016 the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) experienced an email storm that crashed their email system and resulted in snowball effect of 168 million emails being sent in a short period of time.

The cause? A new IT contractor for the company sent out a test email company-wide (the NHS employs 1.2 million people and 840 thousand of them received the test email). Many of them replied to it, wondering why they were receiving such an email using the “reply all” function and it snowballed from there into an email chain of epic proportions, an email storm.

Microsoft’s end-of-support date for Windows 10 is fast approaching: October 14th, 2025. After this date, regular security updates for Windows 10 will stop, leaving devices potentially exposed to cyber threats.

But there’s new information that gives businesses a little breathing room.

In today’s digital business landscape, how you manage your data is just as important as how you collect or store it. For small businesses, having a smart data retention policy isn't just about staying organized, it’s about staying compliant, secure, and efficient.

For employers, sorting through applications is ordinarily a tedious but necessary part of the hiring process. Enter AI, with artificial intelligence employers can now have AI tools sort candidates based on specific prompt criteria, shortening the time it takes to sort through dozens or even hundreds of applications and propelling the most worthy candidates to the top of the list for human review.

Scattered Spider, otherwise known as UNC3944 gained notoriety during the infamous attack on MGM (which we reported in in 2023) which was estimated to have cost the company around $100 million dollars. The group has kept up its momentum while targeting financial institutions in particular such as PNC Financial Group, Synchrony Financial, Truist Bank and more.

We’ve touched on this topic before, but we thought a reminder as we approach the Fourth of July weekend couldn’t hurt, hackers don’t take the holidays off.

This includes summer holidays such as Memorial Day and the 4th of July in addition to the typical winter festivities.

June marks the halfway mark through the year, and what a year it’s been so far – with the innovations in AI to major changes to the global economy via tariffs and more, these are our top 10 blogs of the year so far.

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When small businesses begin to grow, their technology needs quickly follow. At some point, every business owner faces a critical decision: should you hire in-house IT staff or outsource your technology support to a Managed Service Provider (MSP)? At Valley Techlogic, we’ve seen time and time again that choosing an MSP offers compelling advantages for small and midsize businesses.

While already feeling the strain from strict tariffs mostly targeting China, Shein a leader in the fast fashion marketplace has been dealt another blow as the European Commission notified them recently of concerns that their website and app are manipulating shoppers with the use of so called “dark patterns”. What does this mean?

Dark patterns or deceptive patterns are tricks used by websites and applications that are designed to get shoppers to do something they didn’t intend to do.

As a technology provider it’s a red flag for us when we see clients holding onto older technologies, even computers with Windows 7 in 2025 can pose a significant security risk and in general are ticking time bombs waiting to go kaput spontaneously in the middle of a busy work day.