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Threat update: COVID-19 malicious cyber activity

Sourced from the Australian Cyber Security Centre this post is designed to raise awareness of increasing COVID-19 themed malicious cyber activity, and provide practical cyber security advice that organisations and individuals can follow to reduce the risk of being...

Researchers Track Coronavirus-Themed Cyberattacks

Cybercriminals have always used crises and natural disasters to fuel their social engineering activities. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is a massive human crisis, and criminals have been quick to take advantage. People are afraid, and fear is a primary social...

What is spear phishing?

Companies hacked through a single email. Incredible sums of money stolen or paid in ransom. All because an employee clicked on a malicious link. Unfortunately, phishing attacks affect numerous businesses every year. They are difficult to prevent, but getting to know...

How to Check If Your iPhone Was Refurbished

After buying a used iPhone, you might wonder about its history. When first sold, did it leave Apple as a brand new device or one that had been previously refurbished? Luckily, there’s an easy way to tell. Here’s how. Find Your iPhone’s Model Number Open the Settings...

Ransomware Detections Surged 10% in 2019

Trend Micro blocked over 52 billion unique cyber-threats in 2019, 61 million of which were ransomware, according to its annual roundup report. The security firm revealed that email remained by far the most popular threat vector, accounting for 91% of all threats. It...

New Feature: Poll added to Outlook

End users will no longer need to download the Quick Poll add-in from the store and manually install it in Outlook to create a poll after we pre-install the Poll add-in. Microsoft will be gradually rolling this out to Outlook for Mac and Outlook on the web (desktop)...