As revealed in IT News, the QLD Government is expecting to roll out a whole of government approach to vulnerability scanning by October 2016. The initiative comes on the heels of a breach last year of the Department of Education and its TAFE. Hackers made off with data collected from the complaints portal including details
One of Amazon’s Sydney Data Centres went down over the weekend thanks to a severe storm. It shut down websites for some of Australia’s biggest web businesses. Domain, The Iconic and Domino’s were severely affected and Carsales plus REA Group were affected to a lesser extent. One of the biggest cloud companies, AWS is built
By now you will have heard of the Panama Papers, the massive set of 11.5 million documents that was stolen from the law firm, Mossack Fonseca in Panama that details the work they’ve been doing for clients of all types. The firm certainly seems to have been comfortable working in an ethically questionable fashion, but
When shopping around for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, it’s sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees. There’s a lot of talk on GB’s, Ghz, RAM, VM’s and IOPS, and a lot of spin around multi-tenanted, single-tenanted, dedicated resources, uptimes, hypervisors, desktop delivery and storage tiers. It’s a lot of information to process, and it
When you’re presented with the opportunity to hire a new IT resource or to outsource to a Managed IT Service Provider, which direction should you head? Do you interview, hire and train a new staff member or pay a little more per hour (but possibly less overall across the course of a year) to recruit
Who? Me? As a Managed IT Service provider looking at the state of affairs in multi-stage chained attacks we can say this: if you want to be an effective hacker, take a persuasive writing course. That’s also the lesson delivered in a report last week by US-based Proofpoint, a leading Security-as-a-service vendor shows that automated
Office 365 is now in its 5th year of officialdom, but it’s a product with some decent pedigree, stretching all the way back to Microsoft’s purchase of Hotmail in 1997 for around $400 million. In its efforts to produce a productivity suite that fits all users: individual, small business and corporate, Microsoft has introduced a bit
Let’s get one thing on the table, right up-front. The cloud is safe. Safe to store your documents, safe for your email and your business applications, and safe for everyday use. Unfortunately, “The Cloud” is a rather generic term for a range of different solutions delivered by various service providers. Thanks to that diversity and
A week out from the 2015 Sydney to Hobart yacht race the weather models were looking very tough for the boats and crew. A big low looked likely to develop on day 2 just as the majority of the fleet was entering Bass Strait, bringing with it steep headwinds, rolling ocean and more than a
21-01-2015. A major Australian fashion brand owner needed a fresh approach to its IT Support, so it approached Computer One in mid-2015. What was the problem? Internal research had shown that the company’s IT team was stretched with the volume of low-level help issues it resolved on an everyday basis. Strategically important projects were being
19-01-2016. Recently, a fast-paced IT project came from an unlikely source. A respected and long standing charitable organisation that offers literally dozens of services to the Brisbane and wider South East Queensland community. With over 500 staff, the company is also a service hub for related centres located around Southeast QLD, providing an Infrastructure-as-a-Service product
We’re seeing a rise in signature-less attacks. “What’s a signature-less attack?” you say. It’s where malware that is designed to sit on your system, actively breaching your data security, is unable to be detected because the “signature” that the code produces has not been seen by anti-virus software teams with enough frequency to be captured
Millions of dollars in productivity are lost every single day in Australia thanks to various kinds of ransomware that encrypt company data in a practically unbreakable format and demand payment before releasing it. And that’s just the attacks that declare themselves. Millions more damage is being done by signatureless malware hidden inside your trusted applications.
Space researchers infer the existence of a black hole, not by observing it directly, but by observing what’s happening around it. Changes in surrounding matter, warping of light, or a larger than normal burst of x-rays can all indicate the presence of a black hole in a galaxy. Each black hole is different, but it
We don’t provide endorsements lightly. We regard ourselves as a vendor-agnostic managed IT service provider, focused on the needs of the end-user and the business requirements and able to specify exactly the right solution in each case because we’re not tied to recommending only a certain brand or product That’s why it’s important that we
