2018 Tax Scams We all know, or should know, tax season leads to an increase in tax related scams. Often times these scams come in various forms, with the end goal being obtaining illegitimate funds. Recently, there have been two different tax alerts being distributed to the public. First, there is a concern hackers will […]
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Harris County of Texas Falls for Phishing Scam Hackers are ruthless. I mean ruthless. Just weeks after Hurricane Harvey, a hacker sent an email to the Harris County auditor’s office claiming to be a contractor who was due for payment. The email claimed they were working on restoring damaged parking lots, cleaning up debris, and
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Hackers Now Emptying U.S. ATMs Hackers targeting ATMs isn’t breaking news. Historically, these attacks have been seen throughout Asia and Europe. However, according to Krebs on Security, these attacks are now spreading throughout the U.S. Earlier this month, the U.S. Secret Service quietly began warning financial institutions that “jackpotting” attacks have now been spotted targeting ATMs
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Is Monero the New Bitcoin? With the boom in bitcoin popularity, hackers are beginning to find an alternative crypto-currency to use for ransom demands. Due to more individuals buying bitcoin, the process of purchasing the digital currency has become rather cumbersome. One of the biggest issues lies in the amount of time it takes to
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BEWARE: Scammers Post Fake PC Matic Phone Number This isn’t the first time scammers began targeting PC Matic users. In the middle of 2017, there was a scam going around where hackers would call PC Matic users claiming to be our support team. Now there is a website, www.pcmaticsupportnumber.com, that is scamming our customers into
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Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) Facing Major Risks Cyber criminals do not discriminate. Businesses of all shapes and sizes, even home users, are not immune to today’s cyber threats. Prior to ransomware, remediation was possible. Users would get infected with malware and the user would run their antivirus to remove it and resolve the negative
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MailChimp Finds Major Error in System MailChimp, an email distribution site, has found a major privacy error within their systems. The error is believed to be in every link sent out in all of the emails they’ve distributed. For instance, a website link shares the users current and past webpages visited and the unsubscribe link
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Cyber Criminals Use Processor Vulnerabilities to Spread Malware Once security issues go global, cyber criminals tend to exploit them for their own gain. It happened with the global ransomware treats, NotPetya, BadRabbit and WannaCry. Hackers used fraudulent decryption keys to spread malware. Now, they’re using malicious Meltdown/Spectre “patches” to spread malware. According to Tech Republic,
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Top Antivirus Software Websites Recently we’ve received a plethora of questions regarding PC Matic’s lack of presence on top antivirus lists. We’d like to take the opportunity to share with you why PC Matic is not “featured” on these “top” lists. These sites are often “pay to play”. Meaning, the company pays to be listed.
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Some AVs Cause Issues with Spectre/Meltdown Update By: Jeff York The recent Windows update designed to patch the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities has been delayed. The delay was to give anti-virus (AV) companies a chance to make changes to their registry to allow the update to install without causing blue screen of death (BSoD) errors
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