We know cyber fraud and identity theft to be common threats in the digital age, but the scale of the problem in Australia might come as a shock. A 2016 report from the Australian Competition And Consumer Commission found that Australians were defrauded out of $300 million in 2016, with 40 per cent of that
Defeating Ransomware, Advanced Persistent Threats and Malicious Insiders In late July our Managing Director, James Walker, teamed up with our network security partner, Cisco, to deliver a webinar on upgrading network security. We addressed three specific threats: Ransomware, Advanced Persistent Threats (silent malware that is designed to sit undetected on your network for as long
MSP Mentor’s list of the 501 best MSP’s in the world has been published for 2017 and Computer One made the list in a strong place yet again. This year’s rank was 310th. It’s impressive considering 429 places are taken by US and Canadian companies, with just a handful of rankings going to international businesses.
The latest study released by the Ponemon Institute says that nearly 8 in 10 IT decision-makers think it’s anywhere from “somewhat likely” to “certain” they’ll suffer a data breach as a result of IoT in the next two years. That’s a massive admission of fear about the downside of this new wave of technology. It
The American restaurant chain, Chipotle, suffered a 3-week infection of its POS systems from March 24 to April 18 this year. Customer’s credit and debit card information was stolen during the breach, which was first disclosed on April 25. Read the detailed story at ITNews. The stolen information could be used to create clone cards, drain
Shadow Brokers, an unidentified group of hackers popped up nine months ago claiming to have stolen the secret hacking techniques of a group linked to the American NSA. They provided some workable samples of exploits and tried to sell their treasure trove for up to 1 million bitcoins (A$72.5 billion as at 11/3/21). When no
According to IT News, transport giant Toll has received permission to inspect the contents of 8 USB devices it suspects were used to illegally copy its intellectual property by an ex-employee. Currently locked in a legal stoush with the former National Sales Manager for subsidiary NQX, Toll alleges that in the days immediately before his
Hot on the heels of the Mirai botnet of 2016 comes news of a new IoT malware, dubbed Hajime. As reported in Computerworld, Hajime is “like Mirai on steroids” with a more sophisticated method for command and control of compromised IoT devices based on a peer-to-peer network rather than a direct server connection. Estimates so
As reported in Technology Decisions, 68% of all reported data breaches in 2016 were linked to malicious outsiders. And the volume of records exposed by those outsiders surged by 286% over 2015 volume, according to the Breach Level Index published by Gemalto. The report was released a few months ago, but trawling back over the
We thought it might be interesting to let you take a peek behind the curtains at what Computer One is working on right now for a selection of clients. We find the diversity of the challenges quite exciting! Keeping Pace with a Mine Site in Northwestern QLD We’ve been on the ground at a outside
When was the last time you got help with your strategic planning in IT? “What?” you say. “Strategic plans are for the sales and marketing team and the executive retreat. Our IT team is there to help us keep the lights on and maintain business-as-usual conditions. When they want to upgrade a system they put
We’re proud to announce the opening of our NSW office in the heart of Sydney’s CBD at 133 Castlereagh Street. Having served our southern clients for more than a decade from our Brisbane office, our new presence adds a local touch to our nationwide scope and comes in the wake of an increasing number of
A new report by Verizon continues to confirm that the human is the weakest link in any network security chain. The Verizon Enterprise 2017 Data Breach Digest contains numerous accounts of real-life stories of data breaches, corporate theft, million-dollar scams and emergency responses to contain and remedy the situations. The document presents some key metrics
Just yesterday, the Federal Government passed an amendment to the Privacy Act that requires organisations with turnover of $3m or more to publicly disclose they’ve suffered a data breach with respect to personal information of clients, employees, research participants and more. The change comes after 4 years of trying to get an amendment passed, with
Last week it emerged that 3 out of a group of 4 health services whose disaster recovery preparations have been assessed by the Queensland Audit Office have only basic DR measures in place. Computerworld reports that Cairns, Mackay and South West Hospitals and Health Services only scored a 1 on the capability maturity model used
