Posted in Cyber Security

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...

A Cyber Security Assessment is designed to assist in ensuring your business is protected by researching and reporting on your security needs. Loyal I.T Solutions can help with in the way of cyber security, as we assess your businesses security against the Essential 8 framework. The 8 essential points are under 3 distinct defensive lines: Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution  Application control;  Configure Microsoft Office macro settings;&...

  In a recent blog, we introduced you to the new .au domain namespaces (see this blog here). In that blog we discussed that purchasing your .au domain namespace will secure the safety and security of your company brand. Now we'd like to take the opportunity to explain why this purchase is important for your brand and business. Let’s say for example, Loyal I.T. Solutions decide not to buy their .au domain namespace before 20th September 2022. After that date, if&nbs...

For those who have been following our blogs, you will no doubt be aware that Loyal I.T. Solutions undertook a project for cyber awareness over the last 12 months. The project wrapped up in late March and it was a resounding success! Funded by a Federal Government grant (Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources), the project aimed to initiate an awareness campaign and set small to medium businesses up to make improvements in their cyber security. The campaign offered free assess...

Background On the 24th March 2022, the Australian Domain Administration (auDA) released a new website namespace with the “.au” shorter and more memorable namespace (for example “yourcompany.au”).   Application Process If you have an existing domain (for example “yourcompany.com.au”, “yourcompany.org.au” or “yourcompany.net.au”) you will be given priority access to apply to purchase the corresponding “.au” domain ...