Cybersecurity articles
A list of all our IT business support articles under the category of Cybersecurity.
1st security tip – Get a password manager
Hi all, Last week I was lucky enough to attend AusCert 2019, which is one of the biggest IT security conferences in the country. There were plenty of valuable takeaways which we’ll be recommending and implementing over the coming months. One of the keynote speakers (Mikko Hypponen from F-Secure), who has over 30 years of IT security experience, was asked the question ‘If there’s one thing that anyone can do to be more ...
Why you should use two-factor authentication
Hi all, Welcome to April - the days are getting shorter, the mornings are getting colder, and the data breaches are getting more frequent. Coincidence, or something more sinister? In any case, last month I wrote about data breaches at MyFitnessPal and MyHeritage - this month we have 8fit and Houzz - they just keep on coming! And there are many, many more. These are the ones that have affected our client base. We can’t ...
Your apathy towards security is a massive risk to your business
As per Yener Adal's blog post last month, during the month of October, we ran our initial data breach awareness campaign. The results were interesting, disappointing and more than a little concerning - here’s the overview: The initial campaign logged 16% of the currently active accounts in our helpdesk system had a single or multiple data breaches associated with it Of these, we had a 19.88% response rate to the issue, which means almost 20% ...
Helping our clients with automated data breach notification
Early last week I received a call from a friend who was worried about a scam email he received. Initially, I thought “what’s the big deal?”. How bad can a scam email be? Just mark it as spam, delete it and move on. He went on to explain that the scam message informed him that they had access to his computer and information on it. They “proved” this by stating they had his ...
Social Engineering, it will never happen to me. Think again
Monthly IT Support Update - October 2017 Hi All, This month I’m going to touch on a subject that I’ve written about in the past, unfortunately, the issue isn’t going away and is only getting more sophisticated - that issue is social engineering and it can result in the loss of sensitive information, money, and potentially the reputation of your business. What is social engineering? It manipulating people into performing an action or divulging confidential ...
Why your server backups are so important.
I am furious. Out and out outraged. I can’t believe it still happens but it does. I was reminded of it again yesterday. Why so mad? Because it gives IT people a bad name and it’s soooo easy to fix. It shouldn’t even be an issue. TEST. YOUR. BACKUPS. Backups are important right? Right. Talking about backups is boring right? Right. But each and every business owner needs to read this and make sure that ...