CloudPets Breached Leaving 820k Users Exposed The children’s toy, CloudPets, has been breached, leaving 820,000 users exposed. This led to an estimated 2.2 million voice recordings between parents and their children being leaked. What is most shocking is just how avoidable this data breach was. According to Troy Hunt, the platform the toy used, MongoDB, did […]
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Russians Attempt to Hack Security Expert Dodi Glenn, Vice President of Cyber Security for PC Matic, was recently the victim of an attempted hack. Dodi received an email notifying him of a failed login attempt to his remote desktop. Russians attempted to hack into his account, from Kaluga, Russia. Below is the email Dodi received.
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Spora Ransomware Targets Chrome Users A new ransomware campaign is targeting Google Chrome users. If Chrome users visit a compromised site, an alert will pop up prompting the user to “update” a Chrome font extension. The false update claims it need to execute because Hoefler Text is not found. Although this text font is legitimate, the
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Some people believe ignorance is bliss. Which may be true, under certain circumstances. However, I can assure you, one of those circumstances is not computer security. 19.63% Of PC Users Choose Not To Use Security Programs In a recent survey conducted by PC Matic, 19.63% of respondents stated they were not using an anti-virus solution.
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The Fight Against Cyber Crime As of January 1, 2017, the state of California began enforcing a law which treats ransomware as a form of extortion. Wyoming also has a similar law, and Maryland is considering adopting a law specific for the growing cyber crime, ransomware. Prior to these laws, if a ransomware developer or
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You may have heard about the recent security breach that impacted fast food giant, Arby’s. The hackers were able to gain access to Arby’s systems and obtain an estimated 350,000 credit card numbers from customers who visited the restaurant chain from October 2016 to January 2017. Last year, Wendy’s, another major fast food chain, was hit with a breach
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Government Accounts Breached Recent reports claim the police forum, PoliceOne, was successfully breached, leaving over 700,000 user accounts exposed. These accounts included contacts from the NSA, DHS and FBI. The breached files reportedly contained usernames, passwords and email addresses. A PoliceOne official made the following statement to IB Times regarding the breach, “While we store only limited user
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As a product, PC Matic stands out against our competition in several ways. However, our products aren’t the only thing that set us apart. Over the past few years, PC Pitstop has been able to make sales in a way that no other security software provider has been able to do: television advertising. We update
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4000 VIRUSES, 1000 RANSOMWARE SAMPLES, 100% DETECTION As you may recall from the Q3 2016 PC Pitstop Newsletter our CEO, Rob Cheng, mentioned the need for consumers and IT Pros alike to focus on detection rates when choosing their anti-virus solution. Therefore, PC Pitstop partnered with AV Comparatives to create a comprehensive and superior detection
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Throughout the fourth quarter of 2016, the PC Matic Pro team continued to travel to various trade shows and conferences to maintain exposure of our product. These events included the Virus Bulletin Conference, IT Nation, MSP World Fall Conference, AMTSO Conference, Varnex Fall Conference, SpiceWorld and several Secret Sauce events. Hope Gauthier, Channel Sales Manager
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