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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We live in an era of personalization. Whether it is customizing our cell phone cases or our t-shirts, we love to make our things unique. So, why not Windows 10? Personalizing Your Windows 10 PC Windows 10 offers several personalization features to make your PC perfect for you. Here is how you access these settings. First you
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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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WANTED: IoT Security Program The Federal Trade Commission has offered a $25,000 prize to developers who are able to create a security platform for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Why? Because these devices are highly unprotected. When developing the latest smart TV, nanny cam, or home security devices, developers rarely think about hackers. The issue of
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Creating a system restore point on your computer can be a critical piece to recovery after a malware attack. Many times it is an afterthought, not realizing how important it can be until it is too late. Follow the steps below to create your custom restore point. This can be done as frequently as you’d
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Russians Attacking US Electric Grid? Malware found on a Burlington Electric Company laptop matches the malware variant used in the Democratic National Convention (DNC) attack in 2016. The DNC has made reports the malware they found was created by Russian hackers. If that is the case, these same hackers got into a utility company in Vermont. But
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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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PC Matic is the collection of all of PC Pitstop’s technologies under one hood and one integrated architecture. PC Matic comes with SuperShield, our real-time protection component that uses a global whitelist to stop all known bad and unknown malware from running. It also removes “junk” files to free up disk space, adjusts Internet settings
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University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL) Hacked News broke today of a security breach that occurred at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL), leaving thousands of student records exposed. According to KETV of Omaha, the breach was isolated to one server which was tied to a mathematical placement test. For 30,000 current and former students, their
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Phishing scam infects LA County offices, revealing thousands of files. A recent breach of several LA County offices led to over 750,000 personal files being leaked to Nigerian hacker, Austin Kelvin Onaghinor. The report, made by CSO Online, stated a warrant has been placed for the hacker who is allegedly responsible for the phishing scam. The
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