Australia is under sustained cyber attack, warns the government. What’s going on, and what should businesses do? Prime Minister Scott Morrison had some alarming news for Australians on [...]
Data is the new oil, and online platforms will siphon it off at any opportunity. Platforms increasingly demand our personal information in exchange for a service. Avoiding online services [...]
If you’re working from home, you need to be protecting your business from all the usual cyber threats without the business grade infrastructure you ordinarily have access to. Home networks often [...]
For businesses currently preparing for a COVID-19 lockdown who are redeploying their teams to work from home, I can’t overemphasise the importance of cyber security in preparing that deployment. [...]
Have you ever used a public charging station to charge your mobile phone when it runs out of battery? If so, watch out for “juice jacking”. Cybercriminals are on the prowl to infect your mobile [...]
If you’ve ever fallen for an email scam, you know that it’s easy to see the mistake in hindsight. Recognising the scam before it gets you is the real challenge. In this guide, I’ll show you the [...]
The stats don’t lie. Cybercrime is a profitable and growing industry. Australian businesses reported more than 5800 scams with losses exceeding AU$7.2 million in 2018 – a 53 per cent increase [...]
Smart speakers equipped with digital voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa are now the fastest-growing consumer technology since the smartphone. Nearly 100 million were sold in 2018 alone, a [...]
Here’s a quick question: how many things in your home or office, or on your person, are spying on you? Your phone’s a given, right? What about your Fitbit? Do you have a smartwatch? How about a [...]
