Regular updates on news in the IT industry
31 July 2024
Perhaps emblematic of a post-apocalyptic movie or aliens creating global upheaval, nearly everything came to a complete standstill a week ago. It would have felt surreal in this modern age to pop into the local supermarket for groceries just befor...
31 May 2024
As many learned during the Optus outage that occurred back in November last year, the reliability of internet connections can have a profound impact on the functioning of any organisation. As we reported at the time1, crucial services l...
29 January 2024
With data security being on the top of everyone’s mind - and rightfully so given we hear about a new company data breach making the headlines each month - we’ve been ensuring to inform and keep you up-to-date with the many different way...
19 December 2023
With the other article this month highlighting the cyber threats to watch out for in 2024 - the next question arising is how do you go about finding out if your systems are vulnerable? If you don’t know how to tell if your systems are open t...
29 November 2023
Everyone across Australia is likely already aware of the issues that affected the Optus network earlier this month. They were hard to miss, as Optus is Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company and the outage affected their entir...
30 August 2023
It’s an unfortunate reality (and almost a rule within the digital world!) that the threat of cyber-crime will continue to grow year after year. The reason for this is fairly easy to understand when you consider the incentives involved. ...
28 July 2023
With our other article this month going into detail about our Veeam platform – the backup platform that we use to protect our high-end VMware services – we thought that we should also talk about Acronis - our other backup platform which is m...
28 July 2023
Whilst we’ve never put out an article on the tools that are available for it – one re-occurring point that we’ve touched on many times is the importance of backing up your systems. Without them, not only are you exposed to data l...
26 April 2023
When you go to see a medical professional to treat or diagnose an ailment or medical condition, it’s usually a good idea to make sure they’re accredited to some degree. Whilst it’s entirely possible that they have all the skills ...
28 March 2023
Back in 2017, Google decided to make a change to their Chrome browser to display a “Not Secure” message in the URL bar for any website that didn’t have an SSL certificate. Even prior to this change, Google was rewarding those sit...