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Rob Cheng Discusses Cybersecurity Careers and More

Mary James / March 26, 2021

Creating Curriculum for HGTC Rob Cheng, PC Matic’s enigmatic CEO, sat down again with Liz Calloway today. First, they discussed the Horry-Georgetown Technical College’s new cyber certification program. Rob is particularly excited about the jump into healthcare IT focused cybersecurity. It’s long overdue. Healthcare is one of the most vulnerable cybersecurity landscapes. As we know, […]

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PC Matic’s Corey Munson Joins Julian Lee to Talk About Cybersecurity

Mary James / March 24, 2021

Part of the Prevention PC Matic’s Corey Munson joined eChannelNews’ Julian Lee yesterday for a chat about the state of cybersecurity. If you read the guest post by retired FBI Cybercrimes agent Scott Augenbaum, you’ll know he firmly believes that 90% of cyberattacks can be prevented. In the beginning of Julian and Corey’s chat, they

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California Breach All Too Familiar Story

Mary James / March 24, 2021

A Phishing Attempt That Worked An unknown hacker gained access to the California Controller’s Office March 18th and 19th. The access was granted unknowingly by an employee clicking on a link in an email. The employee then entered a user name and password onto the site, giving the “unauthorized user” access to personal information contained

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COVID-19: Cybersecurity in The Remote Workforce

Mary James / March 23, 2021

One Year Later As we’ve been reminded, on March 11th, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. A few days later, we were in lockdown. It was wild and a little scary, and I remember thinking how chaotic everything looked. News reports were saying the quarantine could last as long as June. I was

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Acer Hit With Largest Ransom Demand In History

Mary James / March 22, 2021

No Official Word Acer manufactures computers. Laptops, desktops, and monitors are what they’re commonly known for. It seems this past week, however, they’ve been concentrating on someone else’s technology. On March 18th, the Taiwanese tech giant was hit with REvil ransomware. The ransomware gang posted several images of what they claimed were stolen Acer financial

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App Security

Mary James / March 19, 2021

It’s Not All About Malware We’ve talked before about the ability malware has to infect your phone. But it’s not always about malware. Malware, for reference, means any software with malicious intent. This does include ransomware, but also includes code with the ability to record keystrokes or simply saddle you with something that breaks your

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9-1-1 Dispatch Center Attacked: Rob Cheng Speaks Out

Mary James / March 18, 2021

The Attack Tuesday evening, the Tri-County Public Safety Network operating in Albany, Saratoga, and Rensselaer counties were hacked. Reports mention the attack happened around 9:30pm and no services in Albany county were disrupted. Officials worked through the night with vendors and the state Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Incident Response Team to mitigate the impacts,

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Ransomware Costs: Ransomware Payouts Jumped More Than 300% in 2020

Mary James / March 10, 2021

Money, Money, Money Ransomware Costs! Ransomware is profitable, but just how profitable is it? Initial reports for 2020 are in and the payday was huge. BankInfoSecurity.com reported that there was about “370 million in known 2020 ransomware profits. Via ransoms that got paid – which represents a 336% increase over known 2019 earnings…” These numbers are

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Help Reduce Unknown Calls

Mary James / March 9, 2021

You Can Silence Unknown Calls Do you get a slew of calls from numbers you don’t recognize? Not only are unrecognized numbers spamming our phones, they can lead to scammers getting in touch with us. It’s frustrating. It can feel intimidating. Mostly, though, it’s an increasing nuisance. So what can you do? There are several

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Bridging The Gap; Women In Cybersecurity

Mary James / March 8, 2021

On this International Women’s Day, we shine a spotlight on women making advances in their field along with identifying the inequality gaps we still need to bridge. The data on the numbers of women in cybersecurity isn’t encouraging. Updated data is scarce, and the only hard numbers we have are from 2013 where 11% of

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