In Australia, depending on your industry or annual turnover, securing important documents is regulated and mandated by law. Even if your business is not one of those subject to the Privacy Act, [...]
I love free stuff and I’m sure you do, too. The internet is full of free software and services but, as my father used to say, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. While you might think you are [...]
Author: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia Australians are increasingly concerned about how companies handle their personal data, [...]
In the aftermath of revelations about the alleged misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica, many social media users are educating themselves about their own digital footprint. And some [...]
When you realise you’ve been hacked, it’s suffocating. You feel vulnerable, hopeless, like you can’t do anything online ever again. Your blood runs cold and you start raking over the what-ifs and [...]
We often joke that Google knows more about us than our family but did you know that Facebook tracks everything we do online? Facebook say that they use this information to target better [...]
“The what scheme?” I hear you say. Most people have no idea what the NDB – or Notifiable Data Breaches – scheme is but if you run a business you MUST be prepared for when it comes into effect on [...]
Some of you may have heard about a new wireless vulnerability that some very smart Belgian researchers discovered. The vulnerability has been called KRACK (love the names they come up with for [...]
How hard to 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 [...]
