As the world continues to live through the ongoing global health crisis, many professionals have been left with no choice but to work from home. So it is no surprise that cybersecurity is a growing concern – not just for employees, but also for companies, big and small.
Goodbye 3G, Telstra 3G Closure Telstra will be switching off 3G in mid-2024. While this is still a while away, Telstra are making the announcement now so our customers have plenty of time to change to newer devices if they have a 3G only device or a 4G device that doesn’t have 4G voice calling…
Over the past 6 month, there has been an alarming increase in the amount of Toll Fraud cases being reported by Carriers. Australia, due to its geographical location has been protected from threat in many cases. Unfortunately, this is not the case in a digital world. Through the internet, or telecommunications network, hackers are able…
How much is your business’ data worth? An LA hospital recently paid $17,000 to reclaim their medical data and patient files after hackers accessed their system and held it to ransom. It is not the first case of a business falling victim to ransomware, a form of malware crafted by cyber criminals that locks users out…
This week, Telstra is launching its largest marketing campaign dedicated to raising community awareness about telemarketers who attempt to mislead customers, and scammers who attempt to obtain customers’ personal information via the telephone. The centrepiece of the campaign is an information flyer entitled, ‘Is it really Telstra calling?’ Between now and Christmas, the flyer will…
Recently, we were contacted by one of our customers, a fairly normal business in suburban Melbourne. They requested IT assistance for an issue they were having across their network. Nothing out of the ordinary it seemed to us, we were onto it straight away. We immediately discovered that a very serious virus had corrupted their…
