Q3 Led to Big Enhancements for PC Matic Pro and MSP Throughout the third quarter, our development team made some significant enhancements to PC Matic. These new developments include the implementation of a Blocked Status Info tab within the user portal. This new tab provides a central hub of blocked applications across your environment with an […]
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PC Matic Recognized Internationally for Innovation & its Anti-Malware Capabilities This quarter PC Matic Pro was honored by both the Best in Biz and Cyber Defense Magazine for its advanced security protection. PC Matic Pro was named the silver winner in Most Innovative Product of the Year – SMB in Best in Biz Awards 2018
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What is an RDP Attack? Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks have been a popular way for hackers to breach the security of a device or company network. An RDP attack takes place when an unauthorized person or entity is accessing a network through the device’s RDP ports. The attack is commonly an actual person using brute
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Going back to the basics… The concept of cyber security has become convoluted. Users aren’t sure what software to buy, or if one program is even enough. Often times they’ll try to use three different products that all do the same thing, which in turn interferes with each one’s functionality. So, PC Matic wants to go
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Today’s Top Cyber Security Excuses MSPs and VARs Face Often times value added resellers (VARs) and managed service providers (MSPs) hear how cyber security has already been addressed within an organization. Therefore, trying to get potential customers to entertain an alternative solution can be a bit tricky. Here are the top excuses VARs and MSPs
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Illinois’ Crawford County Suffers Severe Cyber Attack The accounting department of Crawford County, located in Robinson, Illinois, recently was victimized by cyber crime. Hackers infected the county’s servers and encrypted all of the account receivables, account payables and payroll data. After consulting with their auditing team, county officials chose to issue payroll manually. However, the
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Ransomware Riddles Two City Systems, and Indiana’s National Guard An unknown ransomware variant infected the City of Muscatine, located in Iowa, on October 10th. The cyber attack impacted multiple servers and since has been isolated. The local IT staff and federal officials are working to remediate city systems. It remains unclear if the city plans
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Defense Department Breached, Leaving 30K Employee’s Information Exposed Last week, the Pentagon confirmed its Defense Department was breached, impacting approximately 30,000 military and civilian employees. The information breached included personal information and credit card data. At this time, there is no evidence any classified information was compromised. Although the Pentagon just confirmed this breach, department
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Otsego County government, located in New York, suffered a security breach when hackers infiltrated systems by exploiting remote desktop servers According to GovTech, international hackers used a remote desktop server, located in an employee’s home, to access the county’s networks. From there, hackers utilized all of the county’s resources to mine for crypto-currency, also known
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21K Minnesota Citizen’s Exposed in Government Breach Within the last week, the Minnesota Department of Human Services confirmed falling victim to a security breach. The breach was executed when two department employees clicked on a malicious email. The origin of the phishing email remains unclear. As a result of the breach, approximately 21,000 individuals who interacted with
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