Ryuk, the latest ransomware variant that has taken the world by storm, has been targeting victims that promise big paydays. This is the same ransomware strain that hit Tribune Publishing in December of 2018, leaving the distribution of multiple major newspapers, like the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune, at a standstill. This is just one […]
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Texan Town Suffers Ransomware Attack The City of Del Rio, Texas was infected with ransomware on January 10, 2018. This cyber attack led to servers at City Hall being disabled and all city departments losing internet access. This left employees unable to log into the systems, meaning all electronic services were at a standstill. Fortunately, city employees
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St. Vincent Pallotti High School, located in Laurel, Maryland is taking cyber security prevention seriously with the deployment of PC Matic Pro’s application whitelist technology. Prior to the switch, the school was using Bitdefender, which used a traditional blacklist methodology to identify malware threats. School officials began to understand, this level of protection was not
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Ransomware Takes Down Connecticut School in 2019’s First Attack… On January 4, 2019, ransomware hit Bridgeport Public Schools in Connecticut, making it the first publicly known ransomware attack of the new year. The exact ransomware variant is unknown, as is the ransom demand. It’s also unclear if the school decided to pay the hacker’s demands,
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Just as we did in 2018, we will accumulate a list of the publically known ransomware attacks that occur throughout this year. We will do our best to keep this updated, but many hands make light work. Feel free to drop comments below if you’re aware of an attack that we have missed. January Bridgeport
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Find Out How to Respond… Ransomware infects a business every 10 seconds. Coveware reports being the first line of assistance after a ransomware attack has infects a corporate network. They offer assistance with file recovery and getting networks back to full capacity as quickly as possible with minimal downtime. According to Bill Siegal, Coveware CEO, Ransomware strikes
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Ransomware Infection Encrypted and Altered Medical Files An unknown ransomware variant recently infiltrated the Podiatric Offices of Bobby Yee, located in Salinas, California. Unlike traditional ransomware infections, hackers took the cyber attack to further extremes by not only encrypting files but also potentially altering them. Some of the altered data included patient names, social security numbers,
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Our team has proven to take all of our partner’s feedback seriously, and we strive to make our management portal, user interface, and user experiences the best possible. Below are some of the changes we’ve made throughout the fourth quarter of 2018. RDP Security After implementing the Endpoint Vulnerabilities report, our team began researching ways to
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PC Matic developers continued to work diligently throughout the final quarter of 2018 to make PC Matic Pro better than ever. Below is a list of the product enhancements we hope you noticed as they became available. As always, please let us know what you want to see enhanced in our product. We take all
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2018 Was a Year of Breaches — And It Likely Won’t Get Better Whether we admit it or not, breaches have become an expectation in today’s society. So much so, Fox News Channel 16 reported it is one of the three certainties of life, along with death and taxes. Somber note — but honestly rather
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