Australians and Australian businesses should be aware of Business Email Compromise (BEC) threats at all times and especially around tax time. BEC occurs when cybercriminals access email accounts to steal your sensitive and financial information, or commit fraud by impersonating employee or company email accounts to obtain money or data. What can you do?...
Hats off to the scammers, this SMS scam is actually well designed and without spelling mistakes …. but the give away is the link it wants you to click. anz.portal-au.online is not owned by the ANZ bank and we recommend not clicking on the link. Here is an image of the destination page if...
There are many older MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers still being used after 10 or more years but struggling with a lack of storage. A groundbreaking computer at the time for its design and weight and at the time, a more-than-adequate 128GB or 256GB SSD drive. However, over time many run out of...
Has a scammer recently gained control of your computer and you want to make sure they no longer have access? Scammers use multiple ways of getting control of your computer, some you have control of (you inadvertently grant them access) and others gain access via a computer virus or phishing attack (from a malicious...
Advise provided by The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), as part of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), who provides advice, assistance and operational responses to prevent, detect and remediate cyber threats to Australia. For more cyber security information, guides and advice visit https://cyber.gov.au for pdf version, click here Tip 1: Update your device Updating...
From 24 March 2022, anyone with a local connection to Australia (including businesses, associations and individuals) will be able to register a new category of domain name (.au) These shorter simpler domain names will end in .au rather than .com.au, .net.au, .org.au, .gov.au or .edu.au. All Australian businesses will have until 20 September to reserve their .au equivalent domain name,...
Until you’ve experienced using two or more monitors for your everyday computing use, you will not have realised just how inefficiently you work when using a single monitor. Published studies indicate that having a dual monitor in a workplace setting can increase productivity by 20 to 50 percent. Purchasing a second or third...
How to give an iPhone to a child and restrict it ONLY to be used as a Phone (Disable Texting, E-mail, Apps and Internet Access) Many parents want to keep in touch with their children when out of the house and are supplying them with smart-phones (iPhone, Android, Samsung) in order to do so....
Outlook Error – A Program is trying to access email address information stored in Outlook. If this is unexpected, click Deny and Verify your antivirus software is up-to-date. If you are getting this message in Outlook, no matter how many times you click “Allow” the message keeps returning. This appears to be an issue...
Many Australian Seniors have resisted giving up there old analog burner-phones but you will soon need one just to get into the bottle-shop? Unless your current phone can run all of the following the MyGov ID app the Medicare Express App the ServiceWA App … then under unfolding government legislation it may become difficult...