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We must find a way to catch cyber criminals who continue to victimize businesses and home computer users, worldwide. Cyber criminals made $1 billion in ransomware payments alone in 2016. If and when these hackers are caught, what is an adequate punishment? Punishment For Cyber Criminals – Or Lack Thereof Krasimir Nikolova, a Bulgarian native, was extradited to the […]
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The first publicized ransomware attack of 2017 is a hefty one! After returning to school after the holiday break, Los Angeles Valley College found their computer files were inaccessible. It didn’t take long for the college to determine it was a malicious cyber attack that took down their systems. According to The Washington Times, the school notified
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“Never Disable A Competitor” In an opinion piece on Network World, Andy Patrizio broke down the current situation between our company PC Pitstop and Malwarebytes. Andy believes that an anti-malware product should never disable a competitor and he even dinged Microsoft for doing that in the past. He also states that, “The idea that one Microsoft security partner would
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Ransomware, or malicious software that encrypts your files, holding them hostage until you pay the ransom demand, took the IT world by storm in 2016. On many different platforms, I have read about PC users falling victim to ransomware. Many of these cases are certainly true; however some I have found are actually support scams,
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In April 2016, we released PC Matic’s Super Shield 2.0 engine at no additional cost. There were numerous improvements in the new engine. Super Shield 2.0 Improvements enhanced signature based detections enhanced hash based detections enhanced DLL detections 100% internally developed and implemented eliminating our reliance on Vipre’s black list engine new script based detections
PC Matic Dominates with Perfect Virus Detections on the Venerable VB100 Read More »
2017 Cyber Security Trends I’ve been reading quite a few articles on trends to expect for cyber security in 2017. These articles range from more ransomware, to less ransomware, to a major Internet of Things (IoT) focus. After being pulled in every direction possible, I decided to discuss potential trends with our Vice President of
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Is PC Matic malware? Malware, or malicious software, is a categorization of software that is intended to cause damage or disable computers and computer systems. Taking into consideration the definition of malware, it can determined PC Matic is not malware. PC Matic is not malware. Here is why: 1. PC Matic is a certified anti-virus product by the ICSA Labs. ICSA
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It has been a been a busy year, with breaking news every day. News ranging from various ransomware attacks to PC tips, and several topics in between. We have analyzed our Tech Talk posts and found the top 10 posts of 2016. 10. Top 5 Safety Tips for Online Shoppers 9. Top 5 Holiday Scams To Be On
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And Justice For All? Typically when it comes to cyber criminals, we get the feeling there isn’t much the government can or will do to find them. This is because a majority of the time the attacks are coming from overseas and are incredibly difficult to track. This is also what the hackers rely on
Bulgarian Man Accused of GozNym Malware Distribution is Extradited to US Read More »
2016 – The Year of Ransomware CIO from IDG recently published an article regarding the upswing our nation has seen in ransomware infections in 2016. It is without a doubt, 2016 has been the year of ransomware. However, very little headway has been made to prevent future infections. It seems the common consensus is to throw
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