Top Tips to Keep Your Data Secure Recently Beta News published an article on how, The practical guide to fighting ransomware. The article listed several tips, timelines for implementation, and explanations why the tips were important. A vast majority of the information throughout the article was correct and indisputably great advice. However, a few tips […]
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Scammers Use PC Matic Name to Lure Victims This isn’t the first time the PC Matic name has been associated with a scam. This time, scammers are using the name PCMaticPlus. They are using this to execute tech support scams. The scams may range from charging a ridiculous amount per minute to “fix” your computer,
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Update 9/22/2017: Avast representative has made the following statement: “We believe that these users are safe now as our investigation indicates we were able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm. We estimate that 2.27 million users had the affected software installed on 32-bit Windows machines.” The estimated users impacted
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This week our team has introduced a new feature in PC Matic Pro and MSP that improves your control over our existing patch management ability.
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Kaspersky Labs U.S. Sales Drop Over the last few months, Kaspersky has faced major hurdles when it came to their U.S. sales. This appears to be a direct result of the U.S. government investigating the alleged ties between Kaspersky Labs and the Russian government. Very little information is being disclosed to the public, regarding the
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Bashware Lets Malware Bypass Most Security Programs A new exploit has been discovered, allowing hackers to install malware on Windows 10 systems without detection of most anti-virus programs. The exploit, deemed Bashware, is found within the newly added Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Kim Komando reported, WSL was created to add Linux Shell support to
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Federal Agencies Have 90 Days to Remove Kaspersky Labs Products U.S. Government Orders. U.S. Government Orders Federal Agencies to remove Kaspersky antivirus. Moscow-based security company, Kaspersky Labs, has been in hot water this year. With the U.S. investigating potential ties between the company and the Russian government, several entities have abandon the use of the
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Tech Talk Video: Fileless Ransomware Recently, we have received some feedback requesting additional insight from our team on various aspects of cyber security. Taking this request into consideration, our team decided it would be beneficial to post Tech Talk videos in addition to our Tech Talk articles. The hope is to create one video a
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PC Matic Sponsors Kansas City Tech Security Conference The tech security conference is scheduled for Thursday, September 21st, and will be located at the DoubleTree by Hilton, in Overland Park. This all day event will feature industry experts discussing current security and compliance issues. Some of focus points include social media, email, internet and cloud security.
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Hackers Target Butler County for Ransomware Attack Over the weekend the Butler County office, located in El Dorado Kansas, with hit a ransomware attack. The variant has not been disclosed, nor has the ransom demand. Although the county offices remain open, their computers remain inaccessible due to their systems being encrypted with ransomware. Butler County
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