Pennsylvania Eye Care Facility Suffers Data Breach After Ransomware Attack May Eye Care Center and Associates, located in Hanover, Pennsylvania recently reported a breach of patient records as a result of a cyber attack. In July 2018, May Eye Care Center suffered a ransomware attack. The unknown ransomware variant infected the eye care center’s server, leaving […]
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Microsoft Launches October Windows Update, in November The initial launch of the Windows October Update was an epic fail. After being released for less than a week, Microsoft put a halt on any updates that had yet to initiate, so they could resolve the issues its users had been reporting. Some of those bugs included incorrect
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Virginia High School Suffers Outage After Malware Infects Systems Grassfield High School located in Chesapeake, Virginia, has suffered a cyber attack, leaving various computers utterly useless. According to school officials, a staff member clicked on a phishing email which infected their computer, as well as others on the network. At this time, the infection is not system-wide
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Malware Samples Shared Between Public Sector & U.S. Government According to the U.S. Cyber Command, the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) will be sharing different malware samples with the public sector. It is believed by doing so, the U.S. government can better serve the public to actively thwart cyber attacks. So far, different malicious variants have
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Android Malware Increases 40% Year Over Year According to a recent analysis, mobile malware has increased approximately 40% in 2018. The analysis showed over 3 million malware variants had been identified by the end of the third quarter of 2018. The spike in samples is only supposed to continue, with projections putting the year-end total of
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PC Matic Exposes Failing Security Vendors The concept of an antivirus failing isn’t new. To be quite frank, it has become rather common. New ransomware attacks are being successfully executed daily, and only a fraction of them are made public. And what’s worse — those that do go public, rarely share which security solution they
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Facebook Account Details for Sale on Dark Web – But Facebook Denies Breach Hold on…if account details are for sale, who else could have leaked them other than Facebook? Considering how interconnected everything is, it’s entirely possible a third-party application suffered a breach or even a browser extension. The exact route that leaked the data remains unknown, but the
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Ontario Suffers Ransomware Attacks from Unknown Variants The last couple weeks have been rough for Ontario, leaving both the private and public sectors riddled with ransomware. First, on October 25th, cyber criminals attacked the Toronto company, ESC Corporate Services. ESC is an organization that resells sensitive personal and business data collected by the Ontario government.
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It is with a heavy heart that we announce the loss of David Austin. Over the last decade, David has been an irreplaceable member of the PC Pitstop community. He began as a strong member of the PC Pitstop forums, a virtual community for people to share their computing experiences. His commitment to the forums
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Texas Sheriff’s Office in Hot Water After Failure to Disclose Ransomware In 2017, the Hidalgo Sheriff’s Office suffered a ransomware attack by an unknown variant. According to officials, the infection riddled one of their external computers, leaving internal networks unimpacted. The Sheriff’s Office was able to restore the computer using backup files; however, those files
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