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2018

Ransomware Attacks

Users Actively Seeking Out Alternative Antivirus Programs Due to Cyber Threats

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Users Look for Better Protection Against Today’s Cyber Threats PC Matic recently conducted a survey, including 500 participants, regarding the impact of recent ransomware and crypto-jacking attacks.  According to the results, approximately 45% of participants have either already switched antivirus providers, or are considering it, due to these growing cyber threats. Of those who participated, […]

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Microsoft Windows

Is This Windows File Hoarding Your Personal Information?

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Windows WaitList.dat File Has Been Found Storing User Data Now, before anyone panics, there are two major things you must understand.  First, this is only impacting Windows PCs with touchscreen capabilities.  In addition, a user of this PC must have enabled the handwriting recognition feature.  This feature generated formatted text from a person’s writings they

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Flood of Cyber Attacks Drives Endusers to New Antivirus Solutions

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Ransomware Attacks Drive 44.53% of Endusers to Reconsider Their Antivirus Solutions Not only are ransomware attacks taking place daily, but news coverage of these attacks has increased.  Therefore, the public has become more aware of this cyber threat.  The same can be said for another cyber threat, crypto-jacking.  Not long ago, computer users would have

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Ransomware Attacks

Kraken Ransomware Disguises Itself As Legitimate Anti-Spyware Software

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Everything isn’t always what we seem.  This is something we have come to know and accept.  However, when we download a program that is supposed to protect us, that is what we expect it to do.  Apple users were recently duped with Adware Doctor, which positioned itself as an adware prevention tool, but actually was

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Microsoft Macros Listed as Primary Malware Distribution Tactic

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Hackers Use Microsoft Macros to Distribute Malware Tech Republic has determined in the month of August, approximately 45% of malicious activity monitored was executed through Microsoft’s macros feature.  This means that the malware was hidden in a Microsoft program and upon opening, the malware would execute assuming macros were enabled.  Often times Microsoft’s macro feature is

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Ransom Payments or Downtime – Which is Worse for SMBs?

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Which Creates More Issues for SMBs? Asking questions like this is simply asking, which is the lesser of these two evils?  Neither is wanted or preferred.  And both cause substantial damage.  So forgive my bluntness, but which sucks less? Reports have suggested downtime is more damaging, financially than paying the ransom demand.  This is contingent upon several

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PC Matic Pro

PC Matic Pro Featured In CRN 2018 Cloud Partner Program Guide

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CRN’s Partner Program Guide Highlights Leading Cloud Partner Programs Sioux City, Iowa, September 17, 2018 – PC Matic Pro, America’s antivirus, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized PC Matic Pro, by PC Pitstop, in its 2018 Cloud Partner Program Guide, a list of leading technology vendors with cloud-related partner

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New Feature – RDP & Vulnerabilities Report

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We’re excited to introduce some important features to increase security in your environment! Late last week our new functionality to disable RDP from within the management console was added. You can access this new action from the Actions area on the Device’s page.  Now you’ll also find that information in one central place – Endpoint Vulnerabilities!

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Hawaii Issues Breach Warning After Ransomware Infection

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Hawaii Medical Facility Issues Warning to 40k Patients The Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (FDIP), located in Honolulu, Hawaii has begun contacting over 40,000 patients regarding a potential data breach.  Concerns of a breach come after the facility fell victim to a ransomware attack in June of this year. After discovering the ransomware, FDIP contacted

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