Smartphones are highly integrated into our daily work and personal lives – so much so that we may actually be addicted to them! These powerful pieces of technology are so useful that in 2017, 18.6 million people in Australia had a smartphone – a number expected to rise to 21.5...
Security Risks Over the Workplace Shutdown Period
The holiday season is one of the highlights of anyone’s year – including cyber criminals. With the highest transaction rates of the year, doors closing over the holiday period and everyone switching off after a long, tough year, businesses and individuals alike are prime targets for festive season cyberattacks. Here...
Cyberattacks on the Rise During COVID-19
COVID-19 has not just been a healthcare and economic crisis, it has been a cybersecurity one too. Businesses of all sizes across Australia have been seeing an unprecedented surge in sophisticated cyberattacks – an especially worrying trend as cybercrime was already on the rise. Here’s some insight into how the...
Protecting Your Business from Social Engineering Attacks
As long as businesses have been operating, they have been vulnerable to criminal interference and attacks. Today, the majority of these attacks have moved online, with data breaches costing Australian businesses over $3 million, costing the economy over $1billion each year and affecting 78% of small businesses in 2019 alone....
Why Would Hackers Target a Small Business?
As managed IT service providers, we often get asked if it’s worth investing in IT security as a small or medium-sized business – after all, don’t hackers target banks, healthcare organisations and big businesses like eBay, PlayStation, Facebook and Garmin? While these are the attacks that make news headlines, smaller...