MailChimp Finds Major Error in System MailChimp, an email distribution site, has found a major privacy error within their systems. The error is believed to be in every link sent out in all of the emails they’ve distributed. For instance, a website link shares the users current and past webpages visited and the unsubscribe link […]
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Ransomware Attack Targets New Mexico City Office On January 3, 2018, the ransomware variant, SamSam, infected the city offices of Farmington, New Mexico. The ransomware infection successfully encrypted multiple areas of the city office including the electronic bill pay and records processing. Although, the infection did not impact utility operations and the city office has
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Two Indiana Hospital Ransomware Attacks Hit on the Same Day On January 11th, Hancock Regional Hospital was hit with ransomware. After resorting to paper filing, they chose to pay the $55,000 ransom demands. What’s even more shocking is, they had the backup files available to restore the system without paying the ransom. Now, another report
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Cyber Criminals Use Processor Vulnerabilities to Spread Malware Once security issues go global, cyber criminals tend to exploit them for their own gain. It happened with the global ransomware treats, NotPetya, BadRabbit and WannaCry. Hackers used fraudulent decryption keys to spread malware. Now, they’re using malicious Meltdown/Spectre “patches” to spread malware. According to Tech Republic,
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Top Antivirus Software Websites Recently we’ve received a plethora of questions regarding PC Matic’s lack of presence on top antivirus lists. We’d like to take the opportunity to share with you why PC Matic is not “featured” on these “top” lists. These sites are often “pay to play”. Meaning, the company pays to be listed.
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Update, 1/16/2018: Hancock Regional Hospital ended up paying the ransom demand of $55,000. Officials are still reporting patient data was not breached. Officials did report the 1,400 files that were ecrypted were backed up, and could have been replaced. Although, they believed it would be more cost effective to pay the ransom demands to regain
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PC Matic Pro Team Boosts Partnerships and Brand Awareness Throughout 2017 Our team was dedicated to nurturing current partnerships, and establishing new ones during the fourth quarter of 2017. During that time, our team traveled to 16 different events promoting our products and increasing brand awareness. Of those 16, we would like to highlight the
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Changes Made to PC Matic Pro and MSP User Interface PC Matic MSP and PC Matic Pro have proven to listen to their customers. As reported during the third quarter of 2017, customer feedback led to increased functionality to the program including conflict removal and software management tools, as well as device management. Now, the
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We had no doubt coming into 2018 that it was going to take a lot of work to top an amazing 2017, but our team is up to the task. In the early hours of the new year we introduced new functionality into the way we communicate with our servers and clients across PC Matic
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Cyber Attack Hits South Dakota Town The first publicized ransomware attack appears to have taken place in the small town of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. On January 4th, officials reported two of Belle Fourche’s city hall computers were inoperable after ransomware had infiltrated the system. Neither the ransomware variant, nor the ransom demands have been
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