There is some justice, though you don’t often hear about it. An American (yes, he has a Russian connection) was sentenced to four years’ jail for ransomware attacks in Canada. Meantime, criminals who breached The Big Issue (the newspaper sold by homeless folk), recently leaked 550GB of data including passports of staff members. Has your company taken any steps to …
Ransomware attacks Perth business
This month, in a thriving Perth business, some vigilant anti-ransomware software did its job and detected a threat. Despite the alert, the company didn’t act promptly. Two weeks later, the ransomware struck, crippling servers and encrypting vital files. Exploiting a GRE tunnel, it then infiltrated another site, creating havoc anew. Fortunately, the second site had backups in a different network, …
Perth small businesses: iinet will delete your email account
iinet is getting out of the email business. Here’s what you need to know. If you have an iinet email address, (you’re probably living in Perth, Western Australia) you’ll need to ACT SOON to save it. By the end of September 2023 would be best, though the official cut-off date is November 30 (don’t leave it til then). iinet wants …
YouTube repairs
So with the flood of information that is the internet, and more specifically in this case… YouTube, people are more inclined to attempt repairs themselves. While some jobs can be simple without danger of destruction, others can be more of a headache. Laptops are multilayered, and dismantling them often requires steps to be performed in order where as YouTube videos …
Windows 10 finally overtakes Windows 7 as top dog
Windows 10 came out over 3 years ago. Since then its popularity rose quickly with users trying to get away from Windows 8. Even after the forced Windows 10 upgrades Windows 7 was still the most used. But to kick off 2019 Windows 10 took the lead holding 39.2% of the desktop OS market share with Windows 7 sitting at …
Identifying Spam Email
Most people get spam email on a daily basis, and while most of it is easily identified, some can be misleading and trick you in to believing it is legitimate. Most of the time they stand out with bad English or a dodgy looking sender address but the spammers can also use email addresses that appear very similar to …
Windows 10 update destroying data!
Well here we go again, yet another bug in a recent Windows 10 update, but this one could put your personal data in jeopardy. Users have experienced data loss in User folders after installing the October 1809 update caused by a bug that misses an overwrite prompt when extracting the new update – This is made worse by the …
Make your laptop faster
Need to brew the morning coffee while your PC boots into windows? Perhaps it’s time to look at speeding the old girl up, or new girl sometimes… Firstly it’s best to get an idea of exactly what could be slowing down your PC, it could be hardware or software related. There are three major components that determine the speed of …
Recover data from failing hard drive
So, when was the last time you backed up your data? Have you checked? Many people don’t realise how easy it is for a hard drive to fail in a computer, or even the external hard drive that you use for backing up fails and doesn’t successfully back up for months. Well if your here reading this it’s probably just …
laptop blank screen
OK… so your computer may have been working fine last time you used it and now nothing, first thing to do is to is look for a battery plugged into the back. Many ultra-book laptops have internal batteries and require the laptop to be dismantled, probably best to contact us if this is the case – dismantle at your own …