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 [...]
Every day, often multiple times a day, you are invited to click on links sent to you by brands, politicians, friends and strangers. You download apps on your devices. Maybe you use QR codes. Most [...]
Many of us start a typical day by checking our phones to read emails, social media posts and the weather. Our phones are trusted devices we use constantly throughout the day to communicate. But [...]
Hooray for the warmer weather! Spring has finally sprung, and the summer break is not too far off. I’ve spent a great deal of time this year consulting, thinking and writing about IT security. [...]
It’s kind of nerdy, but I love well researched and presented information from reputable sources – especially when it’s free and helpful. Every year, the government’s Australian Cyber Security [...]
Your bank account has just been cleaned out. It all started with a simple email. You opened your email inbox and an message caught your eye. Your Office 365 account needed to be verified, so you [...]
How hard do you think about an email before you open it? If you are like most people, probably not at all. We use email so frequently that we have become indifferent to the dangers that may be [...]
Have you ever watched one of those epic nature documentary scenes where wolves are preying on a herd of bison? The wolves eventually pick off a weak individual from the edge of the herd, while [...]
