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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses

Zip Files Explained

Zip Files Explained

Have you ever seen the file types that look like normal folders, but they have a zipper on the icon? These are called ZIP files, and they are helpful for several reasons. We’re sure you have encountered zipped files throughout your time using technology; we want to demystify them a little bit and show you how to use them effectively.

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How to Utilize Adobe Generative AI to Dress Yourself Up for a Professional Selfie

How to Utilize Adobe Generative AI to Dress Yourself Up for a Professional Selfie

While AI is far from perfect, there are ways that it can help do something mundane or speed up a workflow here or there. I’m no expert in Photoshop either, so if I need to edit something, I usually depend on someone with a little more experience, but this was a really neat trick I was able to do in just a few minutes!

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What You Need to Know about Machine Learning

What You Need to Know about Machine Learning

Emerging technologies provide significant opportunities for businesses to achieve their goals. That being said, understanding how and when to leverage these technologies is imperative. One of the most rapidly advancing technologies today is artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, AI encompasses more than what one might initially think. Many of the most impactful business tools are powered by a branch of AI called machine learning (ML). This month's newsletter delves into machine learning, its mechanics, and its applications within a business context.

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How to Make Your Passwords More Secure in 2024

How to Make Your Passwords More Secure in 2024

Passwords have long been one of the central pillars of account security on the Internet. Combined with a username, they make up the foundation of most login systems. Because of this, they are a hot commodity for hackers who want to steal credentials and infiltrate accounts or networks. However, in recent years, other security measures have exposed the weakness of poor passwords for security, leading to the adoption of other measures.

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How to Create Sticky Notes in One Note

How to Create Sticky Notes in One Note

Note taking apps are really helpful and Microsoft OneNote is one of the most available and feature rich apps on the market for this use. You are probably familiar with the sticky note. They are notes that give a solid visual representation of items that workers need to be cognizant of for all types of processes. Listed below is the process of creating “sticky notes” in OneNote.

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How Small Businesses can Utilize Big Data's Power

How Small Businesses can Utilize Big Data's Power

Big data is now a critical resource for businesses of all sizes, including small enterprises. Modern businesses have unprecedented access to vast amounts of data, enabling them to make more informed decisions and operate more efficiently. This month’s newsletter explores how small businesses harness big data's power.

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Tips for Managing Guests/External Microsoft Teams Users

Tips for Managing Guests/External Microsoft Teams Users

There will always be times when you have to invite guests and other external users to your Microsoft Teams meetings, especially if you want to take advantage of the many collaboration options offered through the platform. Still, you need to be very careful with guests and external users, especially in today’s cybersecurity-centric world.

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Three Practices to Help Employees with the Technology They Have to Utilize

Three Practices to Help Employees with the Technology They Have to Utilize

Technology plays an enormous role for most businesses these days, and not everyone always grasps the importance of it. Most of the time, there is so much built into today’s enterprise software that it can often be overwhelming for workers to use it effectively. Listed below are three tips on how to help employees get a grasp of the technology their productivity depends on.

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Ransomware Will Hinder Consumer Trust

Ransomware Will Hinder Consumer Trust

One of the worst things that can happen to any organization is to be infiltrated with ransomware. Ransomware is a strain of malware that allows hackers to lock down files or computing systems and then ransom access back to the organization. It can really be a problem.

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How to Limit Cybersecurity Sprawl

How to Limit Cybersecurity Sprawl

We obviously won’t tell you to cut down on your cybersecurity. However, it can be easy to overinvest and overreach if you aren’t careful about what you’re implementing. This phenomenon is known as cybersecurity sprawl, and if not prevented, it can easily have serious consequences for your business. Listed below is how to avoid this sprawl.

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IT Threats that can Ruin Your Organization

IT Threats that can Ruin Your Organization

Technology is a major part of modern business. It’s fair to say anyone that works in business today is at least semi-proficient with the technology needed to complete their tasks. Alas, for many people, however, the fact that their business requires complicated technology is problematic. This is because at any given moment there are people looking to undermine their job, seeking access to accounts that will allow them to siphon money and data from organizations. 

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The Story of a Guy Who Scams the Scammers

The Story of a Guy Who Scams the Scammers

When you think of a scammer, you probably think of someone looking to take advantage of someone for their own gain. While this isn’t exactly inaccurate, another variety exists to acknowledge… those who aim to scam the scammers. Listed below is the story of one such white-hat scammer, or “scam baiter,” a content creator who uses the alias “Kitboga,” Kit for short.

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Ticketmaster Got Hacked

Ticketmaster Got Hacked

The world’s largest ticket retailer is in the headlines for the wrong reasons after their parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, filed an 8-K filing with the Security and Exchange commission admitting that they had been hacked to the tune of 1.3 terabytes of information. That amounts to 560 million customers’ personal information that has been stolen from the company’s servers. Listed below is a look at the hack and what it means for consumers.

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6 Reasons a Business Project may Fail

6 Reasons a Business Project may Fail

It can be challenging to deal with failure in any context, but in the case of your workplace projects, it can be especially harsh. This makes it all the more imperative to frame such failures as opportunities to grow in the future.

Listed below are six reasons an initiative may fail and the lessons that can be learned from these situations.

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Report: Many New Cybersecurity Professionals are Destined to Make Mistakes

Report: Many New Cybersecurity Professionals are Destined to Make Mistakes

Cyberattacks will only continue in the weeks, months, and years to come, making it increasingly essential that businesses have access to cybersecurity expertise. Even more unfortunately, professionals with this level of expertise are becoming harder to find. Globally, we’re short almost four million people, and those we have are prone to make mistakes in their first few years. This comes from a report by Kaspersky, entitled “The Portrait of Modern Information Security Professional,” Let’s review what the cybersecurity developer found and what we can take away from these findings.

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Explaining Botnets

Explaining Botnets

It was very recently revealed that a global law enforcement effort took down a massive botnet that was in action for almost a decade. In light of this, we wanted to review what a botnet is and how it works, drawing from these events for some context.

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Be Careful about Pulling Memory from Your Computer

Be Careful about Pulling Memory from Your Computer

Transferring data between different computers and devices has become a routine task. Listed below are the steps you need to take before ejecting memory from a computer to ensure your data's integrity and the memory card's longevity.

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Ransomware's Impact on Society

Ransomware's Impact on Society

The last few weeks have been spent discussing ransomware's impacts on different subsets. First, we discussed how a ransomware attack impacts the customers of the infected business, and then we touched on the infected business itself. To conclude, we want to take a look at ransomware's impacts on society, specifically regarding economic health and geopolitical security, known as third-order harms.

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Be Careful With Your Data

Be Careful With Your Data

Data is extremely imperative in the way that most businesses conduct themselves. This results in other people wanting that information, too. Listed below is a look at how seemingly everyone online is out for your data. 

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How to Enhance Your Business Phishing Deterrence

How to Enhance Your Business Phishing Deterrence

Phishing is one of the most prevalent issues individuals and businesses must confront when operating online. This is because there are literally billions of these scam attempts sent each day. That’s right, billions. With over a hundred billion scam attempts sent every year, your business is already getting phished, it’s just a matter of time before someone falls for it.

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