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Data Breaches Australia 2022

Data breaches in the last 6 months of 2022 surged compared to the first six month according to the Government sources. https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/notifiable-data-breaches/notifiable-data-breaches-statistics/notifiable-data-breaches-report-january-june-2022 Fire Rescue Victoria – December 2022 LastPass – December 2022 TPG Telecom – December 2022 State Office of Victoria – December 2022 LJ Hooker – December 2022 Telstra – December 2022 Twitter – […]

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Automatic Windows Update Essentials

Security / John Kirkby

Is your Windows computer really, really up-to-date? Probably NOT. This is how to check. When getting a new PC, most people simply follow the prompts and update/restart requests and think that Windows is now updated and will keep automatically updating. WRONG. When setting up a new Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer or laptop, the

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Do individuals and small businesses need Anti-Virus protection?

Security / John Kirkby

Do individuals and small businesses need Anti-Virus protection? The global antivirus software market size grew from $4.06 billion in 2022 to $4.25 billion in 2023 and still continues to grow on the back of global corporate hacks, data breaches and geo-political conflict. So who is spending all this money on Anti-Virus products? In a corporate or

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Does Anti-Virus Software Protect You in 2023?

Security / John Kirkby

Does Anti-Virus Software Protect You in 2023? Do Individuals with home devices need to to keep spending money on Anti-Virus software such as Trend, Avast/AVG, McAfee, Norton, Bitdefender, Kaspersky etc. to stay secure? Our advice, and that which is echoed by the Australian Governments Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) https://www.cyber.gov.au/ is that you should not rely

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The Top 10 ways of Protecting Individuals and Small Businesses from Scams and Identity theft in 2023

Security / John Kirkby

The Top 10 ways of Protecting Individuals and Small Businesses from Scams and Identity theft in 2023 Tip #1 – Be vigilant and aware of email and SMS Scams Do not trust anyone/anything that comes as an email, SMS (Text Message) or Telephone call …would be a good place to start. If you are contacted

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How to Export Text, SMS and iMessages off an iPhone

Email, Smart Phone / John Kirkby

How to export SMS, iMessage and Text messages from iPhone to a PC or Mac computer The GOOD news is the data is transferrable to a PC or Mac in PDF format The other GOOD news is, that there is a FREE method of doing so, just using an iPhone However, the BAD news is

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iCloud password not working on Outlook for Mac?

Email / John Kirkby

Has Outlook stopped accessing your iCloud.com or me.com emails? In a recent upgrade, Apple decided to increase the security of your iCloud.com (also me.com) email accounts, not when using Apple mail but when using Microsoft Outlook for Mac (Office 365) or other mail apps. So without realising it icloud.com and me.com emails are not accepting

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iinet imap settings for Outlook

Email / John Kirkby

Are you having iiNet Email issues using Outlook? Once apon a time …. adding an iiNet or Westnet email address to Microsoft Outlook was easy. Not anymore!! If Outlook and your iiNet/Westnet email accounts are working well. Then let sleeping dogs lie … if you have to add them back again, you may struggle. It

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Bigpond email problems telstra

Email / John Kirkby

Having Bigpond email issues on your Mac or Windows computer? An update to Windows, Office or Apple can often break your ability to send/receive emails through your @bigpond (Telstra) account. Telstra are not the easiest company to get technical support from and we do NOT recommend trying to call them. Instead, as long as you

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