Hacked Off By Internet Threats Giant Internet auction site eBay recently found that their customer information servers had been hacked sometime between late February and March this year. They then sat on this information for around a week before realising that they should probably tell their 145 million customers about it and suggest a password […]
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Shop Around for Email Hosting This weeks’ article is directed specifically at Businesses that are using Telstra to host their email accounts. If you have your own domain name through Telstra or anyone else and are using Telstra to host your email accounts then you will be told that this system is getting decommissioned. You […]
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Bug Threatens Your Online Safety Right now cyclone Ita is the hot topic of conversation if you are talking about the weather. Just the same can be said of the Heartbleed bug in the IT arena! The IT world is buzzing with warnings, theories, fixes and other propaganda surrounding this topic – what is it […]
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Hazards to self Installing New PC The number of new customers coming to us replacing a 6 to 10 year old Windows XP computer before Microsoft drops support for them in 3 days’ time, is simply astounding. This also forms the basis for another Byte Me article – I have just got my new computer […]
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Keeping Pace with Smartphones The information technology world never stands still (never sleeps often too) and things change at a rapid rate. No one can ignore the speedy evolution of mobile devices that can make phone calls, browse the Internet, send/receive emails as well as take reasonable photos – smart phones as they are now […]
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Windows 8 is Not an Unqualified Success Welcome back to the first of the 2014 Byte Me articles and I hope that many of you enjoyed a good Christmas break such as I did! The New Year has kicked off frantically and we already have a back log of things to get through from our […]
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Dispelling Misconceptions and Myths in the IT Industry Sometimes things happen to remind us that we are all here not only by miracle (no matter which school of thought you belong to) but also pretty much by a wing and a prayer. It is with deep regret that I have learned of the recent passing […]
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No Delight with Desktop Invasion I often harp on about the number of junk emails and pop ups we get via the Internet and how they can be a nuisance in the least but are often a disaster in the waiting. What should belong to us as ‘our own desktop’ or ‘work area’ on our […]
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Clouds Not as Clever as they Look Over the last few weeks we talked about the now MORE real possibility of losing all of your important data due to recently emerging Internet threats. During these discussions we were always talking about the traditional IT model of storing your own data on your own PC or […]
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Invest in Backup and Protect Your Key Files At the risk of sounding boring – this is the third article in a row which has been written with the latest Internet threat – Cryptolocker – as the principle topic. I also have to state again that the appearance of this threat, or Ransomware as it […]
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