PC Matic Webinar Series A panel discussion regarding emerging/trending work from home technology topics: security, tools, and more! Watch the full video below. The PC Matic Vimeo channel has an extensive catalog of informative videos. To check out more, visit our channel below. PC Matic Team on Vimeo
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DuckDuckGo Claims Anonymity, But Does It Work? Recently an inquiry came into the PC Matic help desk asking us to review search engine site DuckDuckGo. Typically, we aren’t into reviewing other products or sites, but we didn’t have a lot of background information and were curious. DuckDuckGo claims anonymity and unbiased search results. That means
Photo by Alvaro Uribe on Unsplash The Beginning The first ransomware attack, AIDS Trojan, was deployed over 30 years ago. Joseph L. Popp, a Harvard academic, is credited for this. At a World Health Organization summit in 1989, he distributed over 20,000 disks to delegates. These disks, labeled “AIDS Information – Introductory Diskettes,” would wait
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Businesses Weren’t Prepared When the pandemic struck and there were mass closures across the country, most businesses weren’t prepared. In house, networks are exponentially more secure. As the workforce moved home, however, many companies exposed themselves to a slew of security issues. PC Matic conducted our own survey on COVID-19 work from home trends. Consequently,
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Partnership brings together resources of both companies; Intends to deliverglobally automated whitelist technology to Brazil market; Partnership will focus on consumer market Myrtle Beach, SC – Following the announcement of its launch into the Brazilian market on June 9, 2020, cybersecurity firm PC Matictoday announced a strategic partnership with Brazil-based technology management firm Business to Technology (B2T).
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Patriotism Isn’t One Sided My grandfather, Mike, was a World War II vet who spent his life working on the Erie Lakawanna railway. He was one of eight children of immigrants, extremely patriotic, and a staunch democrat. Above all, Mike was American. I was only a teenager when he passed, but we were close. In
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Personal Information Exposed IT provider Cognizant informed its employees about a Maze ransomware attack on May 1st. Personal information, including names and company credit card numbers, were part of the compromised data. However, some employees were also exposed to additional data exposure. “The small number of associates who have had other kinds of personal information
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Photo by Emile Perron on Unsplash It Starts With You There are a variety of benefits to hosting your data in the cloud. Most people, however, tend to look at it as a set-and-forget situation. Data protection is still your responsibility. While most cloud services offer some sort of protection, sticking to just that shouldn’t
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Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash Customer Feedback We frequently receive customer feedback in the Pro Sales department of PC Matic. Whenever a customer has an issue, we work together closely with the Support team. However, we’ll frequently also receive feedback telling us just how impressed a customer is. Jessie recently reached out to us
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Job Growth Cybersecurity for ransomware protection. COVID-19 has brought about strong growth in the cyber security job sector. With more people than ever working from home, there are increased dangers that require more threat response. But what does this mean and why is it necessary? Remote work presents its own security challenges. Many companies who