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Convincing Scam Sites Working To Trick You Out Of Personal Info

Mary James / May 19, 2020

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash Sophisticated Phishing Last week, cybersecurity company Proofpoint released their research on phishing website templates that accurately mimic various governments and agencies. With pover 300 campaigns observed since January, Proofpoint wants the public to know about the phone sites. Often, they’ll come as a link in your email telling you to go to […]

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Magellan Health Attack Due To Phishing

Mary James / May 13, 2020

Posing As A Customer To Hack The System Magellan Health, based in Arizona, reported an infiltration of their systems they discovered on April 11th. The hack happened 5 days earlier when a socially engineered phishing attempt impersonated a Magellan client. Magellan is using a third party cybersecurity forensics firm to assist in the investigation. The

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US RDP Attacks Jump More than 300%

Mary James / May 8, 2020

The Data Is In The data on US RDP attacks from March 10th through April 15th show a 330% increase in RDP brute-force attacks. An article from APN News shows the statistics. From the period of February 9th through March 9th, there were just under 872,000 attacks in the US. The next reporting period saw

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YouTube Scam Videos

Mary James / May 7, 2020

PC Matic Support Scams Being Broadcast on YouTube Heads up, readers. There are more PC Matic support scams on YouTube every day! Let’s take a look at some below. This one splashes the number right across the front so you don’t have to watch the entire thing. Something PC Matic does frequently is to feature

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GIFs, Cookies, And A Microsoft Teams Hack

Mary James / May 5, 2020

unsplash-logoKevin Ku Share a GIF, Share a Hack Microsoft says they’ve fixed a vulnerability that allowed Microsoft Teams to be hacked via a .GIF file. CyberArk published their findings on April 27th regarding a subdomain takeover that can leave Microsoft Teams open to intrusion. The breach works on both the desktop and web versions of

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Nowhere To Hide

Mary James / April 30, 2020

The Evolution of Ransomware Leaves No Room to Hide Ransomware attacks have always been detrimental. This new evolution, however, is making it difficult for victims to hide the severity of the damage. Data is no longer simply encrypted and held for ransom. It’s also copied and sent to the criminal for them to do as

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Medical Field Continues To Face Attacks During COVID-19 Pandemic

Mary James / April 28, 2020

The Evolution of Ransomware Ransomware began as a way to extort money from people. Therefore, by encrypting files, the criminals could demand whatever price they wanted. In response, we evolved our security plans. We now include back-ups and reboot options. This left many attackers in a tough spot. They no longer had the leverage to

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SMBs Still Paying Ransoms

Mary James / April 22, 2020

Ransoms Paid In Lieu of Proper Planning Four months into 2020 and a lot of things have changed. A lot of things, except the fact that businesses are still paying ransoms. Almost half of all SMBs are still dealing with ransomware attacks and 73% of those attacked are paying the ransom. Many companies admit to

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Brave New World

Mary James / April 16, 2020

There Are Defining Moments In History My uncle told me a long time ago that my generation didn’t understand sacrifice. We’d never seen anything that tested our character. Then Columbine happened, and 9/11, then a war and an economic recession, and now a world wide pandemic keeping us quarantined and away from each other all

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A New Round of Email Threats

Mary James / April 11, 2020

A New Email Scam Hits Consumers If you’ve ever watched the popular Netflix show Black Mirror this may sound familiar. Yesterday, PC Matic support received an influx of tickets from customers saying they’d been hacked. They received an email claiming the hacker had taken screenshots of them on their computer. The email goes on to

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