This is a {ransomware} story, all about how my life got twisted upside down… The Background I own a small business, less than 50 employees and I’m located in a mountain community in Colorado. Our town is pretty close knit, but also has a rather high tourism volume. Locals have the ability to charge products […]
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Andy Paul, Director of Service Delivery at PC Matic Federal, shared his thoughts on application whitelisting, zero-trust, and filling the holes in security stacks with Dr. Rich Dill of the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Jeff Stone of CyberScoop during their CyberTalks discussion on zero-trust. The Scoop on CyberTalks The trio touched on some
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. My question to IT decision makers is, what proactive means are now in place to prevent your business from falling victim to cyber crime? The keyword being proactive. EDR is Not Enough We hear a lot about endpoint
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Scammers tweak their methods to avoid scams being detection… There are scams galore. We have written about social media scams, text scams, email scams, phone scams, and now mail scams. It may not seem like a substantial advancement in the world of cyber crime. Backwards almost — moving away from digital attacks. Of course we
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The healthcare industry has become one of the primary targets for cyber security attacks, and they know it. Therefore, in an attempt to block cyber criminals from attacking their facilities, the healthcare industry plans to increase their cyber security budgets. According to the Herjavec Group, in the next five years, medical facilities will spend over
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PC Matic Cybersecurity Investment: Makers of PC Matic, Open to Investor Opportunities Cybersecurity Investment Opportunities. PC Matic, a privately held, American anti-virus software firm, would like to develop relationships with the investment community. This is in anticipation of a future outside investment, said CEO Rob Cheng. He founded Sioux City, Iowa-based PC Pitstop in 1999 and owns
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Survey Confirms People Aren’t Practicing Good Cyber Security Hygiene – And It’s Impacting Their Employers… A recent study, conducted by PC Matic, dove into the password and cyber security hygiene of 5,000 computer users. The results are concerning, primarily for businesses. Users with poor cyber security hygiene often bring these negative habits to work with
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Does Your OS Need To Be Updated? We say this all the time — is your Windows operating system updated? Yet, many PC users either don’t know why it’s important or how to check for updates. Let’s start with the first. Windows updates are issued for two reasons 1) to patch known security issues, and
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PC Matic MSP Addresses Ransomware and RDP Threats with Two New Products It should come as no surprise and managed service providers (MSPs) have had a growing target on their backs. Cyber criminals have found by infiltrating one MSP network, they are able to successfully infect not only that network but that of the MSP’s
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