Kayla Elliott

Hackers Exploit Meltdown/Spectre Vulnerabilities with Malicious “Patches”

Kayla Elliott / January 17, 2018

Cyber Criminals Use Processor Vulnerabilities to Spread Malware Once security issues go global, cyber criminals tend to exploit them for their own gain. It happened with the global ransomware treats, NotPetya, BadRabbit and WannaCry. Hackers used fraudulent decryption keys to spread malware. Now, they’re using malicious Meltdown/Spectre “patches” to spread malware. According to Tech Republic, […]

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Top Antivirus Lists: Why Isn’t PC Matic Listed?

Kayla Elliott / January 15, 2018

Top Antivirus Software Websites Recently we’ve received a plethora of questions regarding PC Matic’s lack of presence on top antivirus lists. We’d like to take the opportunity to share with you why PC Matic is not “featured” on these “top” lists. These sites are often “pay to play”. Meaning, the company pays to be listed.

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Indiana Hospital Resorts to Paper Filing After Ransomware Takes Down Systems

Kayla Elliott / January 15, 2018

Update, 1/16/2018: Hancock Regional Hospital ended up paying the ransom demand of $55,000. Officials are still reporting patient data was not breached. Officials did report the 1,400 files that were ecrypted were backed up, and could have been replaced. Although, they believed it would be more cost effective to pay the ransom demands to regain

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PC Matic Pro Increases Partnerships and Brand Awareness

Kayla Elliott / January 12, 2018

PC Matic Pro Team Boosts Partnerships and Brand Awareness Throughout 2017 Our team was dedicated to nurturing current partnerships, and establishing new ones during the fourth quarter of 2017. During that time, our team traveled to 16 different events promoting our products and increasing brand awareness. Of those 16, we would like to highlight the

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PC Matic MSP and Pro User Interface Gets Facelift

Kayla Elliott / January 12, 2018

Changes Made to PC Matic Pro and MSP User Interface PC Matic MSP and PC Matic Pro have proven to listen to their customers. As reported during the third quarter of 2017, customer feedback led to increased functionality to the program including conflict removal and software management tools, as well as device management. Now, the

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Ransomware Infects South Dakota City Hall

Kayla Elliott / January 11, 2018

Cyber Attack Hits South Dakota Town The first publicized ransomware attack appears to have taken place in the small town of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. On January 4th, officials reported two of Belle Fourche’s city hall computers were inoperable after ransomware had infiltrated the system. Neither the ransomware variant, nor the ransom demands have been

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Old AV Programs Cause BSoD Post-Vulnerability Update

Kayla Elliott / January 11, 2018

Some AVs Cause Issues with Spectre/Meltdown Update By: Jeff York The recent Windows update designed to patch the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities has been delayed. The delay was to give anti-virus (AV) companies a chance to make changes to their registry to allow the update to install without causing blue screen of death (BSoD) errors

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PC Matic Users – Come Check Us out at Data Connectors!

Kayla Elliott / January 8, 2018

The PC Matic team will be traveling to Dublin, Ohio for the Data Connectors Columbus Cyber Security Conference of 2018. This particular event is specifically for end users, and customers. Meaning, all of you using PC Matic — we want to see you there! The conference is scheduled for Thursday, January 18, 2018. The all-day

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Dartmouth College Hit With Ransomware Attack

Kayla Elliott / January 8, 2018

Cyber Criminals Target College in Ransomware Attack On December 18, 2017 Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, was the victim of a cyber attack. Officials noticed unauthorized activity, and determined there was a virus on their systems. It was determined the virus was designed to encrypt files. Although, the encryption was not able to

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