Category Archives: Non-Mulink Related

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Cryptolocker – A virus that holds your business on ransom

Over the past few days we have seen an increased spread of a dangerous Ransomware virus…commonly known as Cryptolocker and Anti-viruses have been UNSUCCESSFUL in detecting it which is why we request your attention.

So what is a Crypto Locker virus ?

Crypto Locker is a virus which essentially encrypts (or in other words locks) all commonly known file formats such as doc, xls, jpg, pdf, mp3 etc. on your computer and whatever your computer is connected to with Military grade encryption mechanism making them unusable.
This means that if one of the employees in your business downloads this infection, the virus can potentially damage all files/folders that their PC is connected to including Network shares and files stored on the server making it inaccessible for everyone else… essentially bringing the business to a complete halt.

The virus makers then ask you to purchase the decryption key to unlock the files and the price you pay depends entirely on how many files they have managed to encrypt. From what we have read and seen ourselves, it could be anywhere from $600 – $9000.
This is a view of how your files will look like once infection has penetrated.

Example of Files infected by cryptolocker

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Security Alert – eBay Hacked

This is to bring to your attention that eBay has requested all its users to urgently change their passwords after a security breach was identified on Wednesday.

Everyone should take this warning seriously and change their password as soon as possible. Further, if your PayPal account is linked to eBay, we would highly recommend changing its password too.

This has once again reminded us the importance of keeping all your online accounts to have unique passwords. Consider the implication if your password goes into the hands of a hacker and then he has access to your email and bank accounts.

More details here – http://www.cnet.com/au/news/ebay-hacked-requests-all-users-change-passwords/

 

Can your business survive without Internet ?

8900 ADSL customers in West Melbourne had no internet for the whole of yesterday (14/05/2014).
This was a result of a Telstra Fibre that was chopped off accidentally by a road-works contractor in Footscray.

Consider the expense for businesses who are using cloud services and this can be massive when you work out the amount of time lost in productivity and wages.

The solution however is simple and cheap.

Many of our customers use a corporate level Firewall/ UTM device which  is capable to run a second 3g internet connection that can act as a backup in these scenarios.

We can plug a 3G/4G Telstra USB dongle straight into your Firewall and this would automatically come live whenever your primary internet connection fails thereby re-enabling your business.

Total YEARLY investment would be – $99 approx. for a 4g USB modem ( from Officeworks) + $180 (for 12 GB plan for 365 days from Telstra) = $279 inc GST.

If your IT Services provider is not giving you this advice, it is perhaps time to look into better options. Have a chat with us today to have the ultimate peace of mind.