Photo by Linus Nylund on Unsplash The Aftermath of an Attack Two dozen colleges, universities, and charity organizations in the US, UK, and Canada are dealing with the after effects of a ransomware attack that’s now turned into a data breach. Cloud provider Blackbaud suffered a ransomware attack earlier this year. They provide cloud services […]
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AV-Test Scores Announced AV-Test has released its evaluation of the best home AV products tested through May and June. When you look down through the list, you’ll see us stacked against our competitors. On our page, however, AV-Test breaks down how we performed. PC Matic always takes a hit on false positives. What does that
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Trending What’s come across our desks this week for scams? Well, according to the Customer Support team for PC Matic, these are the most frequent. There are two companies in particular we’re seeing scams pop up. Garmin and Netgear customers are finding their way to fraudulent support sites. Additionally, router support scams are on the
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Photo by Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash When Did You Last Change Yours? It’s hard to believe that 2020 is past the half way point. No doubt this has been a tumultuous first half for many of us. Many Americans are still out of work, working part time, or adjusting to life working from home. It’s
Gang Demands $7.5 Million Argentinian ISP, Telecom Argentina, is one of the country’s largest internet service providers (ISP). This weekend, on Saturday July 18th, they were quick to respond to an attack by REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware group. REvil was, however, able to install their ransomware onto over 18,000 internal workstations. As a result, this caused
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PC Matic Webinar Series A panel discussion regarding emerging/trending work from home technology topics: security, tools, and more! Watch the full video below. The PC Matic Vimeo channel has an extensive catalog of informative videos. To check out more, visit our channel below. PC Matic Team on Vimeo
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DuckDuckGo Claims Anonymity, But Does It Work? Recently an inquiry came into the PC Matic help desk asking us to review search engine site DuckDuckGo. Typically, we aren’t into reviewing other products or sites, but we didn’t have a lot of background information and were curious. DuckDuckGo claims anonymity and unbiased search results. That means
Photo by Alvaro Uribe on Unsplash The Beginning The first ransomware attack, AIDS Trojan, was deployed over 30 years ago. Joseph L. Popp, a Harvard academic, is credited for this. At a World Health Organization summit in 1989, he distributed over 20,000 disks to delegates. These disks, labeled “AIDS Information – Introductory Diskettes,” would wait
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Businesses Weren’t Prepared When the pandemic struck and there were mass closures across the country, most businesses weren’t prepared. In house, networks are exponentially more secure. As the workforce moved home, however, many companies exposed themselves to a slew of security issues. PC Matic conducted our own survey on COVID-19 work from home trends. Consequently,
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Patriotism Isn’t One Sided My grandfather, Mike, was a World War II vet who spent his life working on the Erie Lakawanna railway. He was one of eight children of immigrants, extremely patriotic, and a staunch democrat. Above all, Mike was American. I was only a teenager when he passed, but we were close. In
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