Many businesses are heavily reliant on email today, due to the fast-paced and connected nature of the world we do business in. Unfortunately, many businesses never consider the security implications of using a system that was never designed with security in mind. Many people do not realise that the main protocols used by email were […]
Google has announced that when version 68 of its Chrome web browser launches in July, it will mark sites all sites that do not use encryption as ‘not secure’. The move is the next step in Google’s push for all websites to adopt encryption (also known as HTTPS). Over time, Google has been progressively marking […]
Like all Microsoft products, Office has a lifecycle where after a certain period Microsoft will stop supporting it. For Office 2007, support will end 10 October 2017. From this date, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support, big fixes or security updates for the software. Microsoft recommends updating as soon as possible. The main concern […]
The National Broadband Network (NBN) has already rolled out to parts of the Central West, with more premises expected to have service available this year. The NBN is being delivered by different technologies depending upon your location. Connections will be by fixed line, fixed wireless and satellite. Fixed line services will be provided to customers […]
Despite the release of Windows 10 as a free upgrade in July 2015, Windows 7 still retains a massive 48.5% market share according to NetApplications. Many business users have resisted the change, seeing Windows 7 as proven and trusted (much in the same way as Windows XP was). Customers are still asking for PCs to […]
Since the Mozilla Foundation released version 52 at the beginning of the month, there have been complaints about the Australian Taxation Office’s AUSKey software no longer working. The reason for this is that Mozilla killed off support for old style plugins (known as Netscape Plugin API or NPAPI) plugins except for Adobe Flash Player in […]
When you dispose of your computer or mobile phone what do you do with it? Do you donate it to charity? Sell them? Put them in the bin? Before you dispose of them you probably erase your data by either formatting or doing a factory reset too. What you probably don’t know is that by […]
You might have heard that Microsoft is providing users running Windows 7 and 8.1 a free upgrade to its latest Windows 10 operating system. This offer will expire on 29 July 2016, making now the time to think about whether or not you want to make the move to Microsoft’s latest and greatest. Microsoft says […]
On Sunday afternoon during storms in Sydney, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had an outage on services running in their Sydney region after the weather damaged some of their hardware. Due to the outage, a number of organisations including The Iconic, Domino’s, Foxtel, Stan and Domain were left without websites or key services for a number […]
Apple, Google and Microsoft all provide functionality in their modern operating systems to remotely manage devices if you know the account associated with their device. Their remote management allows you to locate a device, make it ring or wipe all data off it. To use it, you need to have one of the vendor’s accounts […]