Kayla Elliott

IT Professionals Remain Unarmed Against Insider Threats

IT Pros Lack Ability to Adequately Detect and Respond to Insider Attacks A recent survey completed by Bitglass, a cloud access security brokering company, confirmed insider attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent.  Of the IT professionals surveyed, over half confirmed their organization had experienced an insider attack during the past year.  Even with the increase in […]

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Aite Group Tests Financial Banking Apps – The Results Are Alarming

Third-Party Tested Several Android Banking Apps, Proving Just How Vulnerable They Are A report prepared by the advisory firm, Aite Group for Arxan, confirms financial mobile apps are full of vulnerabilities.  According to their findings these gaps stem from a lack of security controls and insecure coding within the apps themselves.  Although the results are

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Malware

New Ransomware Variant Deletes Duplicate Files

vxCrypter Removes Duplicate Files to Increase Encryption Speed A newly discovered ransomware variant, called vxCrypter, is going beyond the standard encryption included in all ransomware variants, and monitors hashes to ensure duplicate files are removed from the endpoint.  BleepingComputer’s Lawrence Abrams, confirmed he discovered vxCrypter, and reported it is still under development.  Based on his

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PC Matic Shield

PC Matic Pro Featured in CRN’s 2019 Partner Program Guide

Annual Guide Recognizes the IT Channel’s Top Partner Programs Sioux City, Iowa, April 1, 2019 – PC Matic Pro, America’s Antivirus, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has given PC Matic Pro a 5-Star rating in its 2019 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide identifies the strongest and most successful partner

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PC Matic Shield

Responding to the Computer Skeptic

It has been brought to PC Pitstop’s attention, the Courier Journal published an opinion piece regarding PC Matic – written by self-proclaimed “computer techie”, Jim Fisher. Unfortunately, the article was littered with misinformation about PC Pitstop, PC Matic and even personal attacks against the company’s CEO, Rob Cheng. Moreover, there is no indication that Mr.

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