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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.

Technical security measures address less than half of all risk to data security.

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 cybercrime affecting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Australia, I turned to the most authoritative source available: the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). Each year, the ASD publishes its Annual Cyber Threat Report, which consolidates data from multiple government agencies, including the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACS

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 ransomware attack. While Co-op and Harrods bounced back swiftly, M&S remains crippled. Its online operations are still largely offline, Click & Collect is unavailable, and the company is reportedly haemorrhaging over AUD$90 million in weekly revenue. The retailer just disclosed that disruptions will continue until July. https://www.cyberdaily.au/sec

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...

We’re all human (well I hope we all are … at least I was last time I checked), so it’s almost certainly just a matter of time before each...

Almost everyone uses Apple, Google and/or Microsoft software, systems and hardware. FYI, here’s the combined total number of security...

What would you do if, out of the blue, the company you founded and laboriously grew over the years is confronted with ransomware? Your...

In 2024 Microsoft reported that a staggering 92% of ransomware attacks involved unmanaged devices, as you’ll read in this good article ...

Eric Schmidt was Google CEO and executive chairman from 2001 to 2011. His views are interesting, and not necessary what you’d expect from...

https://www.salier.com.au/post/why-is-it-so-important-to-the-security-of-your-business-to-keep-the-software-up-to-date-on-all-devic In...

… and are your phones, tablets, PCs and other office equipment young enough for the manufacturer to still be supporting them? When...

Most employees don’t set out to cause a security breach, but they may not fully appreciate the impact of some of their actions. Check out...

Beware of deepfake scams, as they are rapidly approaching the mainstream. This article headline is about a USA Senator being initially...