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Why the last six weeks of the year are the riskiest stretch for Tasmanian businesses, and how to get through it without a costly mistake. Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the run into Christmas are the busiest trading weeks of the year for many Tasmanian businesses, and that's exactly why criminals treat them as open…

What a critical flaw in one of the internet's oldest programming languages means for the Tasmanian businesses running on it. In the last week of October, the Australian Signals Directorate's own cyber security website briefly went offline, along with the Parliament of Australia's site, because of a newly discovered flaw affecting a huge share of…

What actually happens to your business data when a staff member pastes it into ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude. "I just uploaded our spreadsheet into Claude and it solved the problem in minutes." Fantastic. Or is it? AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Claude are now part of daily work for most Tasmanian businesses,…

Why Tasmania's charities and community organisations are on attackers' target lists, and what the regulator is now asking them to do about it. Most of the organisations we work with in Tasmania exist to make money. Charities and community groups exist to give it away, or to spend what little they have on people who…

ASD is rethinking Australia's core cyber security baseline. As an accredited Essential Eight auditor, here's our plain-language take. This October is Cyber Security Action Month, part of the Australian Signals Directorate's first Cyber Action Year. It's a year built around moving from awareness to action, and planning on the assumption that a compromise will happen…

Personal devices are the security boundary your business doesn't control, but should. Your business is only as secure as your bookkeeper's phone. Quick gut check: does anyone on your team check work email from their personal phone, or log into a shared drive from their home laptop while the kids are watching TV? If you…

The scam costing Australian businesses the most isn't the one you're picturing. Ask most business owners what a cyber scam looks like and they'll describe something obviously wrong: bad spelling, a dodgy link, an email from a stranger. Business email compromise (an attacker taking over or convincingly impersonating a real mailbox to redirect a payment)…

The real AI risk to your business isn't the one making headlines. If you've seen a headline this year about AI "autonomously" hacking into companies or discovering software flaws on its own, you'd be forgiven for picturing a machine quietly working its way through your firewall while you sleep. Read past the headline and the…

Every business wants to prevent security incidents. Do not get breached. Do not get ransomware. Do not lose data. Prevention is the ideal. Except prevention alone does not work. Despite sophisticated defences, security measures that should stop attacks and staff training, incidents still happen. They happen to well resourced organisations with dedicated security teams. They…