Ransomware Attack Has A Deadline Michigan State University is counting down a clock, but not for a buzzer to signal another athletic victory. Today the gang responsible for Netwalker ransomware announced they’ve given MSU administrators a week. MSU was hacked. The administration can pay the undisclosed ransom or risk having sensitive data released. Michigan State, […]
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Over Half of Respondents Unable To Work Today PC Matic is releasing the results of a survey with over 6,000 polled. The information, taken from adult men and women across the country, operates with the goal of assessing security practices in companies moving workers to a remote workforce. 58% of those polled said the COVID-19
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Report analyzes results of nationwide survey; Survey finds more than half of Americans aren’t working from home; Finds those working at home are at high-risk for falling victim to cybercrime MYRTLE BEACH, SC – Today, American cybersecurity firm, PC Matic, announced the release of a study analyzing trends between cybersecurity and employees who are working from home as a
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NSO Denies Allegations Israeli firm NSO Group, a security company, is being accused of impersonating Facebook in an attempt to spread their Pegasus hacking tool. BBC News reported today that the investigative news site, Motherboard, first picked up on the scam. Additionally, Motherboard reports that servers inside the United States were used to assist in
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The FBI Refuses A group of hackers known as REvil or Sodinokibi have released their first round of emails they claim are “damaging” to Trump’s reelection campaign, as reported by Forbes. The group successfully stole information from a New York lawfirm and are now claiming they have “dirty laundry” on Trump. After publishing documents on
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Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash Sophisticated Phishing Last week, cybersecurity company Proofpoint released their research on phishing website templates that accurately mimic various governments and agencies. With pover 300 campaigns observed since January, Proofpoint wants the public to know about the phone sites. Often, they’ll come as a link in your email telling you to go to
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Collaboration will encourage Cyber Security Best Practices, best of breed cyber security technologies, and Cyber Verify assurance rating Chapel Hill, NC May 12, 2020 – PC Matic and MSPAlliance® today announced a joint program to promote cyber security best practices amongst managed service providers and their customers. The program will promote good cyber security practices
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Posing As A Customer To Hack The System Magellan Health, based in Arizona, reported an infiltration of their systems they discovered on April 11th. The hack happened 5 days earlier when a socially engineered phishing attempt impersonated a Magellan client. Magellan is using a third party cybersecurity forensics firm to assist in the investigation. The
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The Data Is In The data on US RDP attacks from March 10th through April 15th show a 330% increase in RDP brute-force attacks. An article from APN News shows the statistics. From the period of February 9th through March 9th, there were just under 872,000 attacks in the US. The next reporting period saw
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PC Matic Support Scams Being Broadcast on YouTube Heads up, readers. There are more PC Matic support scams on YouTube every day! Let’s take a look at some below. This one splashes the number right across the front so you don’t have to watch the entire thing. Something PC Matic does frequently is to feature
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