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Optus has had a massive data breach

You may be aware Optus was recently hacked and some 10 million clients had a range of details stolen.

What we can take from 2020 | Happy New Year from P1 Technology

The year 2020 posed many challenges for all of us. But there are some positives we can take with us into 2021. P1 Founder Luke reflects on the year that was.

Keep it Local: Why you shouldn’t offshore tech support in 2021

Many Australian businesses use offshore staff for a variety of purposes. But there’s no doubt that one of the most common reasons, is to reduce costs.

The Australian Spike in Cyber Attacks: What your business should do.

In light of the Morrison Government’s announcement about a spike in cyber security attacks, here’s what your business should be doing.

How to prepare your business for coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic may find your staff needing to work from home. Here’s some simple things you can do to prepare your business and avoid shutdown.

Are My Phone Apps Listening To Me?

I must admit to being fairly blasé about my online footprint and what the Internet knows about me. I don’t do Facebook much except for messenger, I don’t have an Instagram account or do Twitter, not because Im worried about privacy or anything, it just doesn’t appeal.....

Fake Emails - Please continue to be vigilant

A week or 3 ago I sent a warning to our clients to be aware of fake emails that contain malicious links.

Yesterday we saw a new outbreak of basically the same thing...

Warning on the latest email scam

For many of you who reading this post you are already thinking... “Here we go again, backup, blah, hacking, blah…” Weeelll… Yes, kinda, but a bit different.

Fake request for payment – Have I been hacked?

We have had numerous reports from clients over the last few months of fake requests for payments with sometimes disturbingly accurate details associated. A typical example would be an email apparently sent from the company owner or CEO to the accounts person requesting immediate payment be made to an account listed below.

Meltdown and Spectre!

No it’s not the title for a new DC comic, it’s the latest and possibly largest security vulnerability discovered to date. It affects every Intel processor based system and to a lesser extent AMD and ARM base systems as well. So basically every computer out there. 

NDB coming Feb 22nd.... No not NBN, NDB

Notifiable Data Breach will be brought into effect on the 22nd of Feb 2018 and will apply to the majority of businesses with a turnover of AU$3 million or more based in Australia.