An Informative Series Back in December, we brought you the first of the PC Matic University quizzes. The basic computer safety test quiz is meant to see how much you know about, well, computer safety. But PC Matic University (PCMU) isn’t just about safety. We want to make sure you understand a variety of topics. […]
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Double Check Your Backups When I was half way through grad school, my 7 year old laptop crashed. Dead. The harddrive was a crispy critter in a cold metal shell. I hadn’t been attacked with any malware. There weren’t viruses on my system. My machine was old and couldn’t handle what I was putting her
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A Costly Repair Wednesday morning, the city of Knoxville, TN released invoices showing $217,000 paid for a ransomware attack. The city was hit in June of 2020, and the hackers asked for 42.5 Bitcoin. At the time, that was worth nearly $400,00 (as of publishing that would now be worth about $1.6 million). The city
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National Institute of Standards and Technology From time to time, we cover topics from NIST. If you joined us for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, you followed along with the themes that NIST set out. However, you may not be sure what NIST does. From the Wikipedia page, “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a
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A Friendly Reminder I frequently mention on here that education is key to safety. You remember the 90s campaign, The More You Know. Well, that goes for everything. So what can we learn for cybersecurity this month? For starters, experts are now recommending that you don’t need to change your password every 90 days. But
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Our 4.0 Update User Interface (UI) is so important for any product. If you don’t have an easy way to use your software, you probably won’t use it at all. And that’s not great when it’s software meant to keep you protected online. Then again, if a product is constantly changing, it becomes annoying trying
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Where We’ve Been We’ve written extensively this year about the explosion of ransomware. We thought 2020 was bad enough with a 350% increase in ransomware in two years, but then the SolarWinds hack hit and changed the game. Ransomware evolves. As new technologies come out to beat it, ransomware changes its face. At first, we
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Books For A New Year “I read for different reasons. Sometimes just to relax. Other times to just experience how a good writer tells a story. I like reading biographies particularly of musicians. But if I throw that all out, I also read to learn to influence how I think and approach problems.” – PC
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Everything That’s Old Is New Again Trends always circle back. We’ve watched for decades as fashion has recycled itself. The bell bottoms of the 60s turned up in 90s fashion. Classic cocktails have found new life with the quarantine crowd. Even the old furniture my grandmother refused to part with has now been relabeled “mid-century”
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