Important Security Update: Global Brute Force WordPress Attack WordPress remains one of the most secure website solutions (if secured properly by our team of trusted IT security specialists). Trust our team of trusted IT security specialists to make sure your WordPress website is secured. WordPress sites across the web have recently been targeted by an...
Is your business ready? In less than a year, those holding onto their precious Windows XP systems will be left to fend for themselves. Microsoft will no longer offer any support to Windows XP as of April 8, 2014. After all, it has been over 11 and a half years since Windows XP was first...
Did you know that the latest version of Microsoft’s Outlook application, 2013, is not officially supported by Microsoft if you use Microsoft Exchange Server 2003? This is not any fault of Exchange 2003. With Microsoft Outlook 2013, Microsoft has done away with some features found in previous versions of Outlook. Many legacy public folder functions...
Businesses across Australian continue to search for new, innovative methods to reduce their overhead while maximizing profitability. Increasing efficiencies with staff members is one immediate way business can maximize productivity that can result in higher profitability. One easy and quick way to increase your staff efficiencies is to invest in a robust information technology solution...
March 31 was World Backup Day. When was the last time you backed up your business data? Many businesses across the country fail to have the proper processes in place to back up business information? If something disastrous happened to your business, could you restore it quickly and easily? Unfortunately, the most common answer to...
Recently there has been no shortage of IT security stories impacting small business globally. Evernote, Twitter and others are now forcing business owners to take a second look at their security and what the risks are to their business. As a trusted team of IT consultants to many businesses across the region, we run across...
Savvy Australian business owners have always understood the importance of outsourcing services. From successful small businesses to large corporations, business continues to outsource IT services. Outsourcing IT services affords a small to large company a mechanism to have resources at their disposal without the hefty price tag associated with employing a full time resource. Smaller...
If you are like most business owners across Australia you have the overwhelming feeling that you must do everything and have your hands in every part of your business. This is especially common amongst small businesses and many struggle to delegate tasks or even trust others. This is common across the country and especially with business...
Recently Google, the online search powerhouse announced that it was shutting down their Google Reader program, a popular online RSS reader. Now, this cloud service shutdown may not impact your business directly but it is a reminder about how fragile cloud services can be. Angered and loyal Google Reader users took to online services such...
A carefully crafted and highly targeted email phishing scam penetrated computers at the Reserve Bank of Australia in November 2011. Lia Timson, a journalist with SMH shared the story in her recent column on March 11, 2013. This attack that took place in November 2011 was a targeted, malicious email sent to several staff on...
We are not surprised to hear that the debate rages on amongst Australian business owners on if cloud services and cloud computing saves business money. One thing is true about the cost debate of cloud services, not all cloud services can be counted as equal. It is not a straight apples to apples comparison, it...
Businesses are continuing to look for new ways to reduce expenses, cut operating costs and maximize existing budgets. While some departments or areas of your business can afford to have budgets cut, key areas of your business like marketing investments must never be reduced. Besides marketing, information technology is another key area that must never...
