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A family member just told me they’d bought a cheap second-hand laptop for their 9-year-old. Turns out the laptop is so old that it can only run Windows-10. That’s a serious problem. Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 last month (October 2025). No more security updates. No more patches. That means any new weakness discovered in Windows 10 will stay open forever. Hackers know this - and they’re already using automated bots to scan the internet for these vulnerable devices.

43% of Australian organisations pay ransoms in response to a cyberattack, according to  Barracuda’s Ransomware Insights Report 2025....

Melbourne, 4 th  July 2025 — Holistic Cyber Australia has today announced it has published the most comprehensive list of known cyber...

Something I often hear is that small and medium businesses don’t feel they are big targets.  So, in an effort to understand the scale of...

In late April, three of the UK’s most iconic retailers - Marks & Spencer (M&S), Co-op, and Harrods – all fell victim to the same...

Beware any businesses, schools and not for profit organisations using Microsoft OneDrive. An imminent new feature in Microsoft 365 is a...

When Rapid7 speaks, people listen.   Founded in the year 2000, it is one of the world's most experienced and respected global...

Australians are waking up to the news that 32,000 banking passwords from several of the major Australian banks have just been discovered...

69% of organisations in the Japan and Asia Pacific region first learned of a 2024 compromise from an external source, e.g. from a...

Beware when searching the web for template documents!  Criminals have created template Microsoft Office documents that include malicious...