FBI Hooks a Major Phish This week, the FBI had a big win when it comes to making a dent in cyber crime. After investigating a crime ring, the FBI, Secret Service, Postal Inspection Services, Homeland Security Investigations, and Treasury Department arrested 74 alleged cyber criminals for taking part in a business email scam. A majority […]
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The City of Atlanta’s Ransomware Attack Costs Keep Growing On March 22nd, PC Pitstop shared the story of the SamSam ransomware attack that took down the City of Atlanta. It took almost a week, before the city’s offices were able to turn on their computers, and now, almost three months later, the infection is still
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PC Pitstop, headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa has outperformed other well-known small and medium-sized companies on recent business rankings conducted by Comparably. Comparably uses employee feedback to gather information comprehensive compensation and culture data within the organization. They then rank the companies based on this employee feedback. PC Pitstop Earns Recognition by Comparably for Three Major Categories
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Minnesota Mental Health Facility Falls Victim to Ransomware Attack Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology, located in Rochester, Minnesota discovered its files had been locked with the ransomware variant deemed Triple-M on March 31, 2018. Beyond locking the facility’s files, the attack also disabled the computers’ system restore functions and reformatted the network storage device; which was
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Whitelabling of individual accounts is now available for our Reseller Partners! You can request that our sales team turn on a unique branding function for each of your individual customers. This will put a custom brand on their management console and all emails or reports that go out to them from PC Matic Pro. In
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Cyber Security Shouldn’t Take a Backseat for Summer Travel While traveling this summer, it is entirely likely users will find themselves in need of a WiFi connection. Often times, users will connect to a public WiFi connection to conduct whatever business they need to accomplish. This may include online banking, checking work emails, researching a topic,
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Concerns Arise Over Potential Cyber Attack Targeting Ukraine According to BleepingComputer, some major fears are arising regarding a potential cyber attack that is targeting Ukraine. So far, over 500,000 routers, in 54 different countries, have been infected with a malicious virus deemed VPNFilter. The infected devices include: Linksys, Models: E1200, E2500, and WRVS4400N Mikrotik RouterOS for
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Cyber Attack That Occurred in 2016 was Just Discovered, leaving 500,000 Patients Affected LifeBridge Health located in Baltimore, Maryland, was the victim of a malware attack on September 27, 2016. However, what is most concerning is, the attack was not identified until March 17, 2018. In March of 2018 hospital officials became aware there was
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Introducing the Product There’s no doubt about it, there are a lot of security vendors available. But how do customers know if they’re really getting the best of the best? Often times they don’t. They continue to use the same product because of sheer convenience, instead of researching which product will keep their information best
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Lakeshore IT Solutions Capitalizes on PC Matic Pro’s Lead Generation Program Rian Yablun, of Lakeshore IT Solutions, recently shared his experiences with the lead generation opportunities offered to PC Matic Pro partners, and how the Lakeshore IT Solutions team is capitalizing on these opportunities. “About two years ago, our Synnex representative asked if we would
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