It is with a heavy heart that we announce the loss of David Austin. Over the last decade, David has been an irreplaceable member of the PC Pitstop community. He began as a strong member of the PC Pitstop forums, a virtual community for people to share their computing experiences. His commitment to the forums […]
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Texas Sheriff’s Office in Hot Water After Failure to Disclose Ransomware In 2017, the Hidalgo Sheriff’s Office suffered a ransomware attack by an unknown variant. According to officials, the infection riddled one of their external computers, leaving internal networks unimpacted. The Sheriff’s Office was able to restore the computer using backup files; however, those files
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Social security numbers continue to be compromised — we need a solution The fear associated with breaches has subsided. As a nation, we have become entirely desensitized to this threat, making news of the latest security breach nothing but more significant than today’s weather. We have accepted this as a way of life, thanks to
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Federal Employee Disregards Technology Compliance, Leaving Network Exposed After an audit of the U.S. Geological Survey department, a federal report was released confirming government networks had been compromised. According to the report, a federal employee exposed U.S. government systems to malware after visiting multiple pornographic sites. During the follow-up investigation, the malware exposure was tracked
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New Ransomware Demands RDP Access A new ransomware variant, CommonRansom, has been discovered running in the wild. This particular form of ransomware will encrypt user files with the .CommonRansom extension. Post encryption, the victims receive a ransom note demanding a .1 bitcoin payment and access to their RDP ports. CommonRansom Demand Note by BleepingComputer If
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Search Engines Vetting Failures Google is currently losing their minds! Why? Bing has allowed a malicious link to display that is serving up malware instead of a legitimate download for Google Chrome. But, to be fair, Google is just as guilty… Here’s the story: Last April, Bing was found displaying a fraudulent advertisement when users
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Hackers Offer No Treats, Only Tricks… As we inch closer and closer to the holiday season, hackers are becoming more and more aware of ways to exploit users. Below are the top 10 ways cyber criminals are capitalizing on user behavior: Unsecured WiFi connections, what’s the harm? By using public WiFi, or any other form
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Going back to the basics… The concept of cyber security has become convoluted. Users aren’t sure what software to buy, or if one program is even enough. Often times they’ll try to use three different products that all do the same thing, which in turn interferes with each one’s functionality. So, PC Matic wants to go
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Defense Department Breached, Leaving 30K Employee’s Information Exposed Last week, the Pentagon confirmed its Defense Department was breached, impacting approximately 30,000 military and civilian employees. The information breached included personal information and credit card data. At this time, there is no evidence any classified information was compromised. Although the Pentagon just confirmed this breach, department
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Otsego County government, located in New York, suffered a security breach when hackers infiltrated systems by exploiting remote desktop servers According to GovTech, international hackers used a remote desktop server, located in an employee’s home, to access the county’s networks. From there, hackers utilized all of the county’s resources to mine for crypto-currency, also known
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