Regular updates on news in the IT industry
28 March 2024
A while ago – back in November of 2022 – we covered the data breaches of Optus, Medibank, and Harcourts - explaining how each of them were preventable by fairly basic changes to their systems and policies. We wanted to let our&nbs...
27 March 2024
In news that should concern everyone who uses Microsoft services - either personally or for work – Microsoft have disclosed that an attack from earlier this year appears to have led to source code being stolen in an “ongoing attack”.
19 December 2023
In the world of cyber-security, things only ever seem to go in one direction with threats only seeming to increase in their numbers and the dangers that they pose. However, luckily this ever-increasing risk is more often than not matched by a...
29 November 2023
Everyone across Australia is likely already aware of the issues that affected the Optus network earlier this month. They were hard to miss, as Optus is Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company and the outage affected their entir...
28 September 2023
Here at Micron21 we’ve always prided ourselves on using the latest and greatest hardware that’s available. We’ve gone above and beyond what’s required with our own data centre – attaining “Tier IV” accredi...
28 June 2023
When it comes to open-source and free-to-use platforms for building a website, none is more popular and more widely used than WordPress. With over 455 million websites the world over being built on it, there are many reasons for this wide adoption...
22 June 2023
Worryingly, it seems that every few months now a different organisation is being featured in the news, having been hit by a new cyber-attack and having their own data and/or the data of their clients stolen. In these attacks, one commonly mentione...
26 May 2023
This month we’re pleased to be able to announce two new exciting technologies that you’ll soon be able to utilise with your VMware Cloud services with Micron21. These technologies are a potential game-changer - as they’ll allow our cli...
26 April 2023
In recent months we’ve covered the new language-model AI from OpenAI - called ChatGPT - and the potential implications for both cyber and job security. We’ve also covered the history of phishing, discussing how it developed, how it wor...
27 February 2023
When it comes to cyber-security threats, the imagination instantly jumps to images of hackers wearing hoodies, in dark rooms lit only by the light of their monitors, tapping away on a keyboard at a mile a minute, breaking into online services through an...