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How To Protect Your Firm From The Current Cyber Threat

We’re receiving a lot of queries about the heightened ‘state actor’ threat in the current news. Here’s a short 3-minute article that will give you the scoop on how the majority of breaches happen to SME Accounting firms and what you can to do protect your firm from them. Understanding How it Happens  When people […] Read more

Cyber Security Year in Review (2019)

As we welcome in a new decade, we take a look into what the cyber security landscape looked like in the past year.  In just the first half of 2019, data breaches exposed 4.1 billion records. This is the highest amount on record, making 2019 the worst year for cyber security (and the best for […] Read more

AUSKey is retiring on April 1st, 2020

From 1 April 2020 AusKey and Manage ABA Connections will retire. Australians will now have new digital services to interact with the government: myGovID – myGovID is an authentication service to prove who you are online, and is not the same as myGov. Right now, myGov isn’t accessible from myGovID yet. Relationship Authorisation Manager (RAM) […] Read more

WhatsApp breached by spyware

What happened? WhatsApp, a messaging application used by over 1.5 billion people, has been the victim of a cybersecurity breach. A loophole in the popular messaging app has allowed hackers to install spyware on smartphones through calling people using the app. The spyware could be transmitted onto the device whether or not the call has […] Read more

Secure Your Browser: Update Google Chrome Now!

Google’s Head of Chrome security, Justin Schuh, has warned all Chrome users to update the browser immediately to patch a fix for a zero day flaw that is being exploited right now. The company issued a warning about the attacks in an update to a post about a Chrome update released on March 1 that contained one […] Read more
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