2017 • Page 37 of 46 • PC Matic Blog

82% of Anti-Virus Consumers Do Not Rely on Third Party Testing

Kayla Elliott / February 23, 2017

Who Relies on Third Party Testing When Considering Their AV Solution? In a recent survey conducted by PC Matic, participants were asked, “Which of the following independent anti-virus (AV) testing authorities did you consider when choosing your AV solution?” The options provided were Virus Bulletin, AV Comparatives, AV Labs, NSS Labs, SE Labs, Don’t use third party […]

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IT Breaches – Users Can’t Take All The Blame

Kayla Elliott / February 23, 2017

Users May Not Be To Blame For Security Breaches Can users be to be blame for the security breaches that seem to be hitting nationwide? Not entirely, but they certainly seem to be the scapegoat. Employers must be held accountable for the technology they provide their employees. If they are not supplying an adequate security

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Google Chrome Users Are Being Baited

Kayla Elliott / February 22, 2017

Spora Ransomware Targets Chrome Users A new ransomware campaign is targeting Google Chrome users. If Chrome users visit a compromised site, an alert will pop up prompting the user to “update” a Chrome font extension. The false update claims it need to execute because Hoefler Text is not found. Although this text font is legitimate, the

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15% of PC Experts Don’t Know What Ransomware Is

Kayla Elliott / February 22, 2017

In a recent survey conducted by PC Matic, participants were asked to self-identify their computer skills. Below is a break down of the participants: PC Experts Aren’t Aware of #1 Cyber Threat Out of the 19% of self-identified PC experts, 15% of them reported not being aware of what ransomware is. Could it be possible

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When It Comes To Computer Security — Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Kayla Elliott / February 21, 2017

Some people believe ignorance is bliss. Which may be true, under certain circumstances. However, I can assure you, one of those circumstances is not computer security. 19.63% Of PC Users Choose Not To Use Security Programs In a recent survey conducted by PC Matic, 19.63% of respondents stated they were not using an anti-virus solution.

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Bingham County Struggles to Recover After Ransomware Attack

Kayla Elliott / February 20, 2017

Bingham County Taken Offline After Ransomware Attack Bingham County of Idaho continues to struggle to get all of their systems back online after ransomware hit their systems last Wednesday. On February 15, 2017 the county first discovered the ransomware. Every county office has been impacted in some way, whether it is their phones, database, or

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Scammers Obtain Thousands of Employee W-2s After Successful Phishing Attack

Kayla Elliott / February 17, 2017

Phishing Attack Hits Bloomington Public Schools – Minnesota Star Tribune reported an estimated 2,800 current and former Bloomington Public School employees has their private information stolen after a malicious email scam tricked a school employee to send the information to hackers. The phishing scam requested for all of the 2016 W-2s to be sent to a specific

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Application Whitelisting Ranks #1 For Security Essentials

Kayla Elliott / February 17, 2017

Application whitelisting has been identified as the top security essential tool by Business IT. Application whitelisting implements a security method that, if utilized correctly, will only allow trusted programs to run. Since malware is not a trusted program, the executable will not be allowed to run. Theoretically. this will eliminate malware infections on PCs that

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Uber Online Lottery Scam — You Just Won $1.5M!!!!

Kayla Elliott / February 16, 2017

Uber Online Lottery Scam The Uber Online Lottery scam is making its way across the nation, claiming recipients have one $1.5 million dollars. They just need your banking information to “deposit” the funds. Below is the image that will populate within the scam email. There is not any content that comes within the email, just this

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75% of Ransomware Developed Has Russian Ties

Kayla Elliott / February 14, 2017

Russians Lead In Ransomware Development Russian based security company, Kaspersky, has confirmed 75% of crypto ransomware was developed by Russians or Russian-speaking individuals. To some, that may be surprising. For others, it may validate what they’ve assumed all along. According to Computing, there were 47 crypto ransomware variants that were developed by Russians or Russian-speaking individuals in 2016. All

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