This week, several breaking news stories hit. Here are the top five, classified by PC Pitstop. NASA spends $1.4B on information technology – Yes, you read that right. NASA blew spent 7.6% of their $18.5 billion budget on information security. They should be good to go, right?! Wrong. According to ZD Net, they are still […]
J. Sterling Morton High School Targeted Victim of Ransomware J. Sterling Morton High School, located in Cicero, Illinois has been the victim of a targeted ransomware attack. The ransomware is being delivered through a student survey specifically designed for J. Sterling Morton high school students. As seen below, the survey is poorly designed, but students
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Shoppers Beware – It’s Scamming Season As the holidays quickly approach, scammers are using holiday deals as a way to target customers. This approach is not new, but shoppers must be aware of the risk. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are fast approaching, and the deals are already showing up in news feeds and emails.
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Study Reveals Phishing Victims Found to Lose More Than Breach Victims Google conducted a yearlong study regarding the impacts of data breaches compared to phishing scams. The study found only 7% of individuals whose data was exposed due to a security breach, were still using the same password. Therefore, although the data was breached, cyber criminals
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Ransomware Strikes Spring Hill, Tennessee The City of Spring Hill was hit with an unknown ransomware variant last Friday. After encrypting the city’s files, the hackers demanded $250,000 to restore the systems. City officials reported they contacted the appropriate law enforcement and chose not to pay the ransom. Instead they are going to restore the
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More Information on PC Matic’s Pending Patent We recently wrote a post about our patent pending technologies with PC Matic, and many of you wrote in wanting to know more about it. PC Matic is an endpoint security solution that meets the anti-virus needs of home and enterprise PC users, and was developed in 2009.
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Chrome Web Store Includes Malicious Extensions Google Chrome has been experiencing significant issues due to malicious extensions being available in the Chrome Web Store. The users who are downloading the malware-riddled extensions are unaware what they are downloading is malicious. The perception is, if the application is available through the Chrome, Google, or Apple store,
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In 2017, there have been over 20 medical facilities that were infected with ransomware. It remains uncertain how many of these facilities paid the ransom demands; however, each and every one of them reported issues with patient care due to the ransomware infection. These issues range from the inability to access patient records, to turning
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#LeakTheAnalyst Hacker in Custody BleepingComputer reported, after a 90 day investigation, officials were able to arrest the individual they believe is behind the #LeakTheAnalyst hacker. The hack, which took place earlier this summer, was targeting Mandiant, a FireEye company. Although, initial concerns were that Mandiant’s systems were breached, it turns out the hack was actually of
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Hackers Breach Kansas Non-Profit Center, Locking Files for Ransom Cyber criminals were able to breach Kansas non-profit facility, East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging of Ottawa, Kansas. The hack occurred in September and took a full two months to fully investigate. The hackers were able to execute a successful breach of the non-profit agency, which
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