October is Cyber Security month and with this we wanted to share some of the new and different ways hackers and scammers are finding to target and attack vulnerable technology users. Although we are always here to help in the event of a potential hack or scam, below are five new ways hackers and scammers are targeting you.   1. The Spoofed Email/Text Spoofing is when a hacker or scammer impersonates you and sends an email or text to people who you do business with or kn...

Even if you run your business with care, incidents can occur, resulting in loss of, or damage to data. What can happen if I don’t backup? Without an effective backup system in place you may be at the mercy of natural disasters or human interference. These might include the below:
  Theft, accidental or deliberate deletion of files If files are stolen or deleted, yours and your clients' confidential data is at risk. Backing up your files and emails allays this, as most backe...

What are the benefits of a Loyal I.T. managed services plan?
Tim O’Reilly, an important figure in computer journalism once stated, “we are entering a new world in which data may be more important than software”. Computerised data is a great tool for businesses, but is fallible without an effective system of storage, monitoring and maintenance.

In our previous blog we gave you an overview on what managed services are and the benefits, now our latest blog is a visual repres...

Managed Services is an application that is installed on networked devices (most commonly servers and workstations) which allows your I.T. provider to monitor (in close to real-time) your I.T. infrastructure. An effective managed services plan ensures that your systems are healthy and running optimally. Loyal I.T. Solutions is a managed service provider (MSP) and under one of our managed services plans, we can provide the following (and more) services:  Patch updating (Windows updates...

Scams have been in the media lately, with blogger Constance Hall being the victim of a scam after she sent money to a real estate agent to secure a rental property only to later find out a hacker was posing as the realtor.  In this, and other cases, you might want to know if you can recover lost money after you have been hacked or scammed. This blog aims to give you some insight into what can be done after the event of a hack or scam. Our last blog gave you hints and tips on how t...

Scamwatch – the Australian government website for consumer awareness – has shown a trend of increasing cyber-attacks in Australia. For example, so far in 2022, over 70,000 scams have been reported and over 205 million dollars have been lost to businesses and consumers in cyber-attacks of one sort or another. This number rises even greater when you consider that there are some attacks not reported. This statistic is a shocking increase of 314 per cent compared to the...