2020 • Page 9 of 15 • PC Matic Blog

PC Matic and MSPAlliance Form Joint Program to Promote MSP Cyber Security Transparency

Gavin Smith / May 14, 2020

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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Magellan Health Attack Due To Phishing

Mary James / May 13, 2020

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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US RDP Attacks Jump More than 300%

Mary James / May 8, 2020

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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YouTube Scam Videos

Mary James / May 7, 2020

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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GIFs, Cookies, And A Microsoft Teams Hack

Mary James / May 5, 2020

unsplash-logoKevin Ku Share a GIF, Share a Hack Microsoft says they’ve fixed a vulnerability that allowed Microsoft Teams to be hacked via a .GIF file. CyberArk published their findings on April 27th regarding a subdomain takeover that can leave Microsoft Teams open to intrusion. The breach works on both the desktop and web versions of

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Nowhere To Hide

Mary James / April 30, 2020

The Evolution of Ransomware Leaves No Room to Hide Ransomware attacks have always been detrimental. This new evolution, however, is making it difficult for victims to hide the severity of the damage. Data is no longer simply encrypted and held for ransom. It’s also copied and sent to the criminal for them to do as

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Medical Field Continues To Face Attacks During COVID-19 Pandemic

Mary James / April 28, 2020

The Evolution of Ransomware Ransomware began as a way to extort money from people. Therefore, by encrypting files, the criminals could demand whatever price they wanted. In response, we evolved our security plans. We now include back-ups and reboot options. This left many attackers in a tough spot. They no longer had the leverage to

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PC Matic Names Kayla Elliott Vice President of Marketing

Gavin Smith / April 28, 2020

Myrtle Beach, SC – PC Matic, American cybersecurity firm, today announced that it has appointed Kayla Elliott, who formerly served as the company’s Director of Marketing, as the company’s Vice President of Marketing. Serving with the company since 2015, Elliott will drive marketing activities and the creative direction of PC Matic as it continues to

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SMBs Still Paying Ransoms

Mary James / April 22, 2020

Ransoms Paid In Lieu of Proper Planning Four months into 2020 and a lot of things have changed. A lot of things, except the fact that businesses are still paying ransoms. Almost half of all SMBs are still dealing with ransomware attacks and 73% of those attacked are paying the ransom. Many companies admit to

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Cyber Security Hygiene Affects Network and Endpoint Security with Application Whitelisting

Employer Networks Left Exposed Due to Employee’s Poor Cyber Security Hygiene

Kayla Elliott / April 17, 2020

Survey Confirms People Aren’t Practicing Good Cyber Security Hygiene – And It’s Impacting Their Employers… A recent study, conducted by PC Matic, dove into the password and cyber security hygiene of 5,000 computer users. The results are concerning, primarily for businesses. Users with poor cyber security hygiene often bring these negative habits to work with

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