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Don’t Neglect Software Updates and Patches

Many times, employers don’t update their systems since they feel the downtime for the devices would slow business, or they don’t see the point of it. In the latter case, users believe updates change the layout and functionality they’re already used to or add unnecessary features that don’t matter, [...]

Tech Literacy: The Essential Skill for Small Business Owners

Tech literacy isn’t what it used to be with the constant evolution of online programs, portable devices, and software tools. That means incorporating technology into your small business is no longer solely about typing up documents on Microsoft Word, keeping inventory with Excel spreadsheets, or sending emails. If this [...]

3 Reasons Why Small Businesses Need Pen Testing

Pen testing involves attack simulation campaigns that replicate real-world attacks on the network in order to identify weaknesses.  By regularly testing your systems and network, you will be able to quickly identify and address vulnerabilities. Here are 3 primary reasons you need pen testing. Security While the big data breaches [...]

Benefiting from CloudFlare’s New Tool

As AI tools become more sophisticated, protecting original content and intellectual property on your website is becoming increasingly difficult. AI bots are constantly scraping webs for data to train AI models, often using it without authorization or compensation. While many of the biggest names in AI, including Google, Apple, [...]

Combating Top Cybersecurity Threats

Business owners fulfill customer and employee demands to stay competitive and relevant in a fast-paced economy, especially with many similar companies out there. However, the demands they should never fall victim to are those that come from hackers via ransomware or other cybersecurity threats. You may think risks to [...]

ChatGPT for Mac Users

Fancy yourself an early adopter who can't wait to snatch up the latest tech goodies? If so, you were probably all ears when OpenAI revealed ChatGPT to great fanfare in November 2022. Artificial intelligence has been around for ages, but ChatGPT promised to take this tech to a new [...]

What is Crowdstrike? What to know about company linked to global IT outage

A global tech outage disrupted major airlines, media companies, banks, and telecommunications firms worldwide Friday morning. Australia's government said the outage appeared to be linked to an issue at cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which is used by over half of Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. firm said in a promotional video this year. [...]

Using IoT Devices to Empower Your Small Business

Running a business now is not like running one just a decade or two ago. With the older system, if one couldn’t speak to a partner in person, slower fax machines and phone calls were the only alternatives. Similarly, research included manually borrowing library books and digital media meant [...]

Microsoft Copilot for Teams – Top 3 Features

Using Copilot for Teams Preparing for Teams meetings can be time-consuming. It’s easy to spend hours digging through chats to find information, following the thread of complex conversations, and getting up to speed on meetings. Now, Copilot has changed all that. With just a few clever prompts, it can [...]

2024 NJBIZ Reader Rankings – Nominate BMT

Help us continue our reign as NJ's Top Cybersecurity Company!  Nominations have officially opened for the 2024 NJBIZ Reader Rankings, and Business Machine Technologies needs your help.  In the past we have had the honor of being part of this list, and we are hoping to make it this [...]

New Chrome Threat: Make Sure Your Browser is Up to Date

Google released a critical security update for its Chrome web browser to address attackers exploiting a high-severity vulnerability. The update brings Chrome to version 124.0.6367.201 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users on the Stable release channel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4671, is a “use after free” flaw in the [...]

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Patches Issued for Microsoft Products

April’s Patch Tuesday was a record-breaker for Microsoft, with the software giant releasing patches for 147 vulnerabilities — more than researchers can recall ever seeing previously in a single month.  This month’s list initially appeared to contain no zero-day vulnerabilities, but researchers were quick to correct this — pointing [...]

By |2024-04-10T11:28:37-05:00April 10th, 2024|Categories: Catch IT, News|Tags: , , , , , , |
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