The Role of AI in the 2024 Election: Opportunities and Risks

    The Role of AI in the 2024 Election: Opportunities and Risks   As artificial intelligence advances, its role in political campaigns, voter interaction, and election security is becoming more enhanced. AI can potentially strengthen democratic practices, but it can also be misused. AI offers a range of innovative solutions; however, this technological advancement also brings challenges, including […]

Multi-Factor Authentication: Why it’s Important & Newsworthy

There is no doubt you’ve heard of multi-factor authentication either when signing up for a new online account or when browsing the internet–but what exactly is it and why is it so important? And why is it suddenly making headlines? First, let’s cover what multi-factor authentication is, so you can understand the rest going forward.  According to […]

Web Page Popup Scams

Fake FBI Popup Warning

     Recently here at PJ Networks, a lot of customers have come to see us because of the same issue: they were browsing the web as usual when they saw a popup claiming they had a virus or there was an issue with their computer. The popup informed them that Microsoft or their computer’s manufacturer […]

FBI ALERT: Ransomware infections are on the rise

PJ Networks Charlottesville Computer Security blog

The FBI has issued new warnings about the latest ransomware that is infecting systems around the world. Ransomware is a type of infection that encrypts your files, making them unreadable, and in order to recover your data files you have to pay a fee to the hackers who created the virus. The latest ransomware is […]