Virginia State Police Department Offline After Malware Strikes As of Wednesday night, at 8 p.m. the Virginia State Police Department was forced offline, unable to use their email communications what so ever. This cease in online communication was due to a malware attack that brought down the email communication networks. By noon on Thursday, the …
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PC Matic 3.0 — What does this mean for PC Matic Pro and PC Matic MSP? PC Matic 3.0, the updated version of PC Matic, includes the ability for file-less ransomware detection. This software enhancement has been incorporated into all versions of PC Matic, including PC Matic Pro and PC Matic MSP. Users do not …
130,000 Spyware Customer Records Leaked According to Motherboard, two companies that sell spyware to direct customers, Retina-X and FlexiSpy, have suffered a major breach. Between the two companies, it is believed over 130,000 records were compromised. Along with customer records, company records were allegedly exposed, as well as photos and text messages acquired by Retina-X. …
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Investigation into Chipotle Breach Continues On April 25, 2017, Chipotle made a public statement explaining their payment systems had been breached. Since it is early into the investigation, the entire impact of the breach remains unknown. According to WTKR News, this is what had been confirmed, Unauthorized activity was found within the restaurant’s network, which …
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Ransomware Strikes Again… This time, it was the City Hall in Newark, New Jersey. The attack reportedly began on Friday, April 21st, and continued to spread over the weekend. According to KnowBe4, Seth Wainer, Chief Information Officer for the City of Newark, reported, “The virus compromised our network and disrupted many services that we offer. …
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Introducing PC Matic 3.0 As of May 1, 2017, PC Matic will be updated to PC Matic 3.0. This update includes significant updates to the PC Matic software, as well as the user interface. This email is simply a breakdown of the updates for both. Makers of PC Matic want to ensure their customers are aware …
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Webroot Whoops… Yesterday, major issues arose for the millions of users of Webroot. The well-known anti-virus began classifying several different Windows files as general malware, leaving critical files quarantined. Therefore, Windows was not able to fully function. As if that wasn’t bad enough, ZDNet reports, “Many independent tweets confirmed that several major websites, including Bloomberg …
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Erie County Medical Center Remains Down 13 Days After Attack Erie County Medical Center, located in Buffalo, New York was recently hit with a virus, leaving its systems down for the last 13 days. Although the medical facility has yet to confirm the virus was ransomware, Buffalo News made reports, that is indeed the case. …
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Old Ransomware Returns with A Bang Many reports have reported 2016 as the year of ransomware. This can much attributed to the ransomware variant, Locky. However, in 2017, Locky ransomware has been on somewhat of a hiatus. This lead to another ransomware variant, Cerber, becoming the most popular ransomware of 2017. However, it appears Locky …
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Enhancements Set PC Matic Further Apart from Competition PC Pitstop, makers of PC Matic, PC Matic MSP and PC Matic Pro have made several updates over the last few months to their security solution. The recent changes made to the software include the ability to detect file-less ransomware. Traditional malware, including ransomware, required an executable …
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