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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Ransomware Attacks Cloud-Hosting Provider, Data Resolution Data Resolution, a business and government cloud-hosting provider has reported suffering a ransomware attack on December 24, 2018. Data Resolutions was hit with the same ransomware variant, deemed Ryuk, as what took down the Tribune Publishing over the weekend. In an effort not to pay the ransom demands, the company is attempting
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NY Daily News, LA Times and San Deigo Union Tribune Suffer Post-Ransomware Infection Major news publications across the United States were halted over the weekend due to a suspected ransomware attack. Tribune Publishing, responsible for printing several major newspapers like Chicago Tribune, LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune, NY Daily News, and the Baltimore Sun, suffered
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Cape Cod School Loses Close to $1M in Malicious Email Scam This year ended poorly for Cape Cod Community School when they fell victim to a phishing attack. An email was distributed throughout the school that was disguised as content from another educational institution. It was because of how the email was disguised, that staff
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The First Global Ransomware Attack Wreaking Havoc — 18 Months Later When the first-ever global ransomware attack, WannaCry, took the world by storm, there was a kill-switch developed. Meaning, if the ransomware attempted to run, it would first see if this kill-switch was available. If so, it wouldn’t encrypt the files; but would remain dormant
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Some of you may have received a new PC this holiday season, which will have Windows 10 loaded as the operating systems. For some, this may be a new OS to adapt to, to others, perhaps you’ve been using Windows 10 for some time now. Either way, the ten tips listed below are great ways
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