PC Matic – A Gold Level Sponsor at VB2017 PC Matic is a proud sponsor of the world’s top cyber security event, Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2017). The conference is taking place in Madrid, Spain from October 4th through the 6th. This is the second consecutive year PC Matic has sponsored this event. This year, more […]
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Pentagon’s Security Software Source Codes Provided to Russian Defense Agency Wait, what?! Yes, it is true about the Pentagon’s Security Software. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is allowing a Russian defense agency to dissect the source codes for the security software in use by the U.S. military. The HPE program, deemed ArcSight, alerts analysts when there
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Sonic Food Chain Breached – Impact Remains Unknown In September, various entities were breached, including Equifax, the SEC, even the fast-food chain Sonic. In mid-September five million of credit and debit card numbers were loaded to the dark web. It is believed, some if not all of, these numbers came from a breach within Sonic’s
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Arkansas Medical Facility Faces Potential Breach After Ransomware Attack An estimated 128,000 patient files may have been compromised as a result of being the victim of a ransomware hit. In July, the Arkansas Oral Facial Surgery Center in Fayetteville was struck with ransomware. Although the malicious attack was identified promptly, there were still patient files, x-ray
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San Ysidro School District Suffers Ransomware Attack On September 16th, San Ysidro School District of California was hit with a ransomware attack. The ransomware impacted emails from August through the middle of September, as well as select computer files. After encryption, an automated message was sent to the district demanding $19,000 to restore the emails
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Application Control for Medical Professionals Decision Health recently published a lengthy article on Plan B News regarding application whitelisting within the medial field. With the advanced technological methods being used within the healthcare industry, and the ever-evolving software, IT administrators were curious if whitelisting could fit in this field. Roy Edroso stated application whitelisting is
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Rob Cheng Presents, Winning the War on Ransomware, at Synnex Inspire Event PC Matic Pro announces CEO, Rob Cheng, will be presenting at the Synnex Inspire Conference. This event is the technology industry’s premier conference for partner planning and content, and will be located in Greenville, South Carolina October 4-6, at the TD Convention Center.
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Enabling PC Matic Scan Emails Security solutions tend to run in the background of PCs, meaning users rarely aware that they are working. Consumers have to trust that their solutions are keep their data safe. However, sometimes it is nice to get affirmation. For those who are PC Matic customers, the software offers the ability
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Startup Programs This tutorial is going to cover how to monitor, enable, and disable startup programs. Monitoring startup programs is important because if users have several programs starting when the PC is turned on, it could slow down the startup process. Also, if users are running too many startup programs, it could interfere with the
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Major Accountancy Firm Suffers Cyber Attack Cyber criminals infiltrated one of the world’s “big-four” accountancy firms, Deloitte. It is believed the attacks wormed into the system in November or December of last year and remained undetected until March of 2017. During this time, the hackers were able to access the company’s email systems, and potentially
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