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 […]
For several months we have been hard at work behind-the-scenes preparing a new version of the Computer One website. Today we are proud to announce its launch. It contains a more complete description of the IT services we offer and maintains the easy links to our desktop support services. Our thanks go out to our clients […]
QH&M Birt is one of Australia's busiest civil contractors. They prepare mine sites for commercial operation and build roads and dams in the kind of environments where roads and dams have never been seen before and in some of the most remote locations in the country It's not all about big earthmoving machinery though. Lots […]
19-08-2015 - Be careful where you step. That's the message from Microsoft as it releases an out-of-cycle patch with all the urgency it can muster. IT News reports that the patch covers Internet Explorer 7 to 11, running on Windows Vista and newer supported versions of the desktop operating system, and also Windows Server 2008 […]
There's a growing trend, widely recognised, that your employees are happy to connect their mobile device to the corporate network to give them the flexibility to work remotely and be available even when they're not in the office. To make the most of that trend, the role of IT is to make the business and […]
30-07-2015 - We get a lot of IT support calls from clients affected by some malware that has interrupted their workflow and stolen or corrupted data. Most often, the attack vector was a link in an email. It happens so often that I thought I would post about it. But it’s not just a professional […]
28-07-2015. IT News reports that code already present on Android phones from version 2.2 onwards is vulnerable to memory corruption and can be exploited to fully compromise the device. The security researcher who discovered the code, Joshua Drake from Zimperium, says that specially crafted exploits only need the phone number of the phone in order […]
