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31 July 2024
Perhaps emblematic of a post-apocalyptic movie or aliens creating global upheaval, nearly everything came to a complete standstill a week ago. It would have felt surreal in this modern age to pop into the local supermarket for groceries just befor...
31 July 2024
As mentioned last month in our cybersecurity update, with the ever-increasing threat of identity-based attacks, it’s more important than ever to protect yourself and your business from this type of attack. Whilst the ultimate defence against phish...
28 June 2024
When it comes to making sure your website is secure, one of the most important things - if not the most important - is to make sure that sure your website is up-to-date. From the software used to build the website itself, to all the plugins, libra...
28 June 2024
Every six months or so we like to do a review of the state of cybersecurity in the IT landscape. It’s rarely good news, with cyberattacks seeming to only ever grow in number and in frequency. And unfortunately, this month’s news ...
31 May 2024
With the ever-growing trend over the last decade being the move of clients from hosting their systems on-premises to the cloud, it was a surprise to most when this trend started to change. With the astronomical rise and adoption of public cloud pr...
31 May 2024
As many learned during the Optus outage that occurred back in November last year, the reliability of internet connections can have a profound impact on the functioning of any organisation. As we reported at the time1, crucial services l...
30 April 2024
We’ve been following the Medibank breach since it occurred back in 2022, having reported on it initially when it happened1, as well as providing several updates as things developed. Just last month we put an article out about how ...
30 April 2024
As is unfortunately the new normal, each month it seems like there is news of another data breach of a major organisation. Perhaps it could be related to the increasing use of AI in cyberattacks, or alternatively, it could just be a sign that cybe...
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”.
