Data Of Over a Million Exposed The State Auditor’s Office in Washington State released a statement confirming a data breach that happened on December 25th, 2020. Accellion, a third-party provider that the office uses to transmit files, was involved in the breach. The Auditor’s Office reiterated to the public that the breach was with the […]
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Your Computer Never Performed Like This My work laptop is starting to get up there. She’s over 3 years old, and some time last fall I noticed she was starting to run a little slow. Start up was slow, task performance was slow, and shut down was painfully slow. A lot of the time people
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Class Number Four Welcome to the fourth in our PC Matic University series. This week’s installment is a quiz regarding your knowledge surrounding malware. Do you know what it is and the different kinds? Meanwhile, if you missed the first three classes, no worries, you can catch The Internet Test here and link back to
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Best Time To Shop There’s a lot of hype around the holiday season being the best time to shop for a new computer. That’s great, but what if you don’t have loads of extra cash when you’re also buying presents for family and friends? When are other good times to purchase tech? Typically, Presidents’ Day
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Spotting A Scam We talk a lot about spotting scams and what you can do to protect yourself. And when a new scam crosses our desk, we like to keep you updated. You have to be able to spot a scam, though, and this is where education and common sense comes in. First, if it
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PC Matic University If you’re a regular reader, then you’ve already come across our Computer Safety Test and our Basic Email Test. For the third in our series, we want to help you navigate some basic internet terms. This isn’t a series for everyone. If you’re new to the internet, we’re here to help with
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Altcoin vs Bitcoin Altcoin is just another name for cryptocurrency that isn’t Bitcoin. It may make sense to think of Bitcoin as its own entity, seeing as how we hear of it so frequently, but it’s really just another form of cryptocurrency. Since it is so prominent, and somewhat stable, it is the cryptocurrency of
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Babuk Locker Emerges in 2021 In less than a week, 2021 introduced a new type of Enterprise ransomware. Babuk Locker is now less than a month old and has amassed a small collection of victims. So far ransoms have been demanded in bitcoin and are under $100,000, to what I could find. If you aren’t
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A Decade Of Protection Between the end of 2019 and the start of 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began heavily recommending whitelisting technology. Brands that hadn’t been using it were converting over. Big name AV companies began slowly integrating the technology into their offerings. It’s over a year later, and they
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Call To Action Frequently, when presented with an overwhelming problem, we humans try to find our own ways to help. It’s in our nature. We may not be able to digest something in its entirety, but we can use our own talents to offer assistance where we can. On March 30th last year, PC Matic
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