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Business Ins & Outs: French Market, Rose Park Market, Club Pilates, Rosewood
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Downtown Stunner: La Grande Boucherie
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Georgetown Main Street Lauds Local Businesses
Tech Tip: How to Spot a Phishing Email
December 30, 2019
•Often these emails look 100-percent legitimate. They show up in the form of a PDF, a UPS or FedEx tracking number, a bank letter, a Facebook alert, a bank notification, etc.
Tech Tip: How to Foil Ransomware
December 23, 2019
•After your files are compromised, the hackers behind the attack pop up a demand screen asking for payment within a set time frame in order to get the key to decrypt your files.
Business Ins & Outs: Rí Rá, Chase, Rothy’s, Lutèce by Bonaparte
December 18, 2019
•RE-BRANDED: CAFE BONAPARTE IS NOW LUTÈCE BY BONAPARTE Serving Georgetown since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte at 1522 Wisconsin Ave. NW reopened as Lutèce by Bonaparte on Dec. 12 with a new […]
Tech Tip: If This Type of Alert Pops Up, Don’t Click!
December 16, 2019
•A pop-up notification that your PC is infected with a virus and you must “click here” to run a scan or install antivirus software is a common scareware tactic.
Verizon Outage Continues into Third Week
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On Dec. 2, according to the phone and internet provider, a worker accidentally cut into cables that run along the 31st Street Bridge, now under reconstruction.
DC Chamber Honors Baseball Visionaries
December 12, 2019
•Former Mayor Anthony Williams and others discussed the economic resurgence of D.C. after years of bad publicity and investors “running away” from their sales pitches for the city.
Chase Opens; Rí Rá, Artist’s Proof to Depart; Bonaparte Refreshed
December 9, 2019
•The latest ins and outs aptly tell the tale of Georgetown’s ongoing retail quandary. It was a relief to see that the temporarily closed Cafe Bonaparte has reopened after its facelift.
Tech Tip: Use Strong Passwords!
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Hacking software can guess a five-character password in under three hours. If you only use lowercase letters, it’s 11.9 seconds.
Business Ins & Outs: New Key Bridge Marriott Residences, The Obamas, Miramar Restaurant, More
December 4, 2019
•PLANS FOR NEW KEY BRIDGE MARRIOTT, RESIDENCES The Arlington County Site Plan Review Committee has begun to review the site plan application for the redevelopment of the Key Bridge Marriott […]
Tech Tip: Working From Home? Don’t! Until You Read This …
December 2, 2019
•Unless your personal device is covered under a network security plan, you could accidentally introduce a virus to the company’s network.