There’s a plethora of cyber security threats that IT professionals need to protect their data from. But, what if one of those threats are entirely unmanageable? A recent study conducted by U.S. tech consulting company CEB, found 90% of employees have violated IT policies designed to prevent security and data breaches. What does this mean? […]
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Update: After five days of battling to get systems back up and running, Madison County has paid the ransom demands to regain access. Herald Bulletin reported, the county was encouraged to pay the ransom amount by their insurance provider, who paid the $28,000 demand. The county was left paying the insurance deductible, along with $17,500
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A fake Adobe Flash Player being installed on Android devices is spreading malware like wildfire. When Android users download this malicious application, an “Activate Device Administrator” popup displays. At this point, they are either damned if they do and damned if they don’t. By clicking cancel, the message just repopulates. Once the user hits “Activate”, the
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PC Pitstop, makers of PC Matic, are pleased to announced they were cited as an Innovative Vendor in Application Control in the Gartner Event Summary. Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2016 — London, report published 27 October 2016 by Gartner. Gartner is the world’s leading information technology company. PC Matic provides expert advice to
Scammers Portray IRS – Scamming Affordable Healthcare Act Insurance Recipients It’s not surprising that scammers are once again portraying the IRS. According to News 4 JAX, scammers are targeting individuals who receive insurance through the Affordable Healthcare Act. The scammers are emailing, texting, and even sending physical mail to these individuals claiming they owe the IRS money for
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The rotating platter hard disk drives (HDD) have been around since the early days of PCs. Technology improvements are allowing for the improvement of speeds and capacity. Basically the HDD technology involves a armature that moves across the surface of the platter. Using magnetism, the drive head reads and writes information to the disk. SSD
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Step-by-step guide to removing FBI MonkeyPak ransomware If you have been infected with the MonkeyPak ransomware, and a system restore is not an option via SafeMode, there is an alternative way to remove the malware. It should be noted, you will need a bootable USB device with a minimum of 32 MB memory that can
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We all get them, those annoying emails that tend to fill up our mailboxes that we don’t want, need or read. Here are five tips to help control those spam emails. Transitioning your email to Gmail. Gmail filters all emails as they come into your inbox. Outlook and Yahoo do this as well; however Gmail’s
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A security vulnerability within the Microsoft software has been exploited and there is yet to be a patch to fix the issue. Fortune reported Google notified Microsoft of the security issue on October 21st. Typically when a vulnerability is found by Google, they provide 60 days for a patch; however, since this particular vulnerability has already
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Computer Virus Update: As of November 2nd, NHS is still struggling to get their systems up and running as normal. According to Graham Cluley, outpatient and diagnostic procedures were cancelled for today, with the exception of a few select services. NHS Trust canceled all operations at three hospitals after a computer virus spread throughout their systems.
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