AUSSIE BUSINESSES LOST $22.1 MILLION TO EMAIL SCAMS LAST YEAR

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Email scam reports were the second highest with 31 per cent – losing only to phone scams with 40 per cent. A total of 50,635 email scams were reported totalling $17.4 million in losses.
The use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method in scams and scams capitalising on the popularity of investments in cryptocurrencies peaked in the last quarter of 2017, according to the report.

Protect Yourself

  • Protect your personal information
  • Do not give any sensitive information through emails.
  • Do not click on any suspicious links or emails.
  • If you think you’ve been scammed, report it immediately.

Majestic™ Hosted Email Security™ is a security solution that delivers continously updated protection to stop phishing, ransomware, advanced threats and malware before they reach your network.

For an obligation free consultancy session, please feel free to contact Majestic Computer Technology at any time. We are here to help.

ALLSTAFF AIRCONDITIONING NETWORK REDESIGN PROJECT

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Majestic was appointed to redesign the network layout of Allstaff Airconditioning (Vic) Pty Ltd.

Headquartered in Melbourne, Allstaff Airconditioning has been a market leader in air conditioning and mechanical services for over 35 years. Since inception in May 1975, Allstaff has grown to a team of over 300 staff operating now in Victoria, New South Wales, Albury-Wodonga and the Australian Capital Territory.

Majestic evaluated, planned and implemented the successful network redesign by:-

  1. Network size – 150 users
  2. Redesign of the network layout
  3. Replacing the network cabling and ensuring provision for future VoIP implementation
  4. Relocating the server room
  5. Upgrading the server hardware (Dell based server, switches etc)
  6. Migrating the network from Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 environment to Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007 64 bit environment
  7. Upgrading the Unix based IIS Application Server
  8. Migrating network applications and data to new servers
  9. Configuring internet connections and remote access
  10. Configuring VPN access to enterprise network application from other offices (Sydney, Albury- Wodonga and the ACT)

MAJESTIC COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IS NOW AN AWS CERTIFIED PARTNER

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We are delighted to announce that Majestic Computer Technology is now a certified partner with Amazon Web Services. In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services which is now commonly known as cloud computing.

With data center locations in the U.S., Australia, Europe, Brazil, Singapore and Japan, today AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

Majestic Computer Technology now provides a broad set of AWS products and services, which you can use as building blocks to run sophisticated and scalable applications.

  • Backup and Disaster Recovery – AWS storage solutions achieve efficiency and scalability without the need of an on-premises infrastructure.
  • Data Archiving – Amazon Web Services offers a complete set of cloud storage services for archiving.
  • Serverless Computing – Serverless computing allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers.
  • High Performace Computing – AWS enables you to increase the speed of research and reduce time-to-results by running HPC in the cloud.
  • Business Applications – Run your existing business on AWS, while building the future of your business on AWS as well.
  • Content Delivery – Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to your viewers with low latency and high transfer speeds.

For an obligation free consultancy session, please feel free to contact Majestic Computer Technology at any time. We are here to help.

MAJESTIC PATCH MANAGER HAS BEEN UPDATED

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At Majestic Computer Technology, we make sure that no stone is left unturned to provide the best service for our SLA clients. We constantly keep updating, let it be our knowledge or our software system. We have made some commendable changes to our patch manager recently to give the best services to our clients. With the growing ransomware attacks around the world, ” Patching is a serious job” and we never skip any opportunity to make it even better.

We constantly strive hard to make your network more resistant to the ever surrounding cyber attacks, as a result we have  reinvented the way patching is performed. Here are latest updates.

  • Majestic patch manager now also manages third party applications patching along with Microsoft updates. For example, we can now apply Adobe Reader®, Google Chrome® and Apple iTunes® updates from our patch manager.
  • We always ensure that all security and critical patches are applied on the systems. To make it more effective we can now create patch groups in our patch manager according to the system’s configuration.
  • Majestic patch manager now integrates with the Windows API to detect the potential patches that are needed to be deployed on the systems.

Majestic Computer Technology’s Service Level Agreement includes all the above features, giving you a sense of security and ensure that you are in safe hands.

If you would like to know more, please feel free to contact Majestic Computer Technology at any time. We are here to help.

EUROFINS|MGT ELVIS APP/SQL SERVER PROJECT

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Majestic was appointed to plan and deploy mgtLabmark’s LIMS Application at Enterprise Level

Eurofins|mgt has emerged from the Eurofins Scientific acquisition of mgtLabMark Environmental Pty Ltd. Eurofins|mgt has 200 staff and a network of National NATA Accredited Environmental Laboratories located in Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne that are supported by a National distribution and service network with offices located in Adelaide, Perth, Darwin & Newcastle. Eurofins also operates an Environmental Laboratory in Wellington along with Food and Agroscience Laboratories in Auckland, Hamilton & Christchurch.

Majestic evaluated, planned and deployed the LIMS Application at Enterprise Level by:-

  1. Deploying Application Server based on Windows Server 2008 & IIS7
  2. Deploying Database Server based on Windows Server 2008 & MSSQL 2008
  3. Configuring remote access to LIMS application from mgtLabmark network
  4. Configuring WAN connections and secure remote access
  5. Configuring secure access to LIMS application from mgtLabark website for local/remote users and company clients
  6. Configuring integration with email system and other network applications

MAJESTIC WORKSTATION MAINTENANCE – IMPORTANCE OF REGULAR IT MAINTENANCE

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High-functioning and reliable computers play a vital role in succeeding in the current digital world and compete more effectively. Maintaining your employees’ computer stations is an important part of the business.So whether it is installing the right updates to ensure your desktop runs at peak performance or getting your business back up and running after your computers crashes unexpectedly, Majestic Computer Technology can help.

our flexible and reasonable PC support options help enhance your business execution by:

  • System backups – It is essential to have a plan for recovering from a system failure. An attacker could crash a computer’s operating system or data may be corrupted or wiped out by a hardware problem. Computers can be lost, stolen, or destroyed in a fire or other catastrophe.
  • Installing critical and security updates – Critical security patches are perhaps the most important updates to apply to your system. Ignoring these could leave your computer or server extremely vulnerable to hackers and malicious code.
  • Defragmenting the hard drive – Over the time files can become fragmented or separated, thrown into random directories When this happens, it takes your computer longer to scan the hard drive to locate those blocks of information it needs to perform a task, which decreases the computer’s speed and performance.
  • Monitoring the drive space – It is important to monitor the amount of available storage space on your disk because programs might fail due to an inability to allocate space.
  • Disk cleanup – Disk cleanup utility searches and analyses the hard drive for files that are no longer of any use, and then removes the unnecessary files, temporary logs and much more.
  • Checking the event logs on the PC – Event logs can give you early warning of impending system issues and save you from unexpected disasters. We can also trace security events that can reveal someone making a sustained effort to access a customer system in unexpected circumstances.
  • 24 x 7 PC health check – Our automated script runs on your systems in regular intervals and let us know if there are any issues with your hard drive or other hardware.

As always Majestic Computer Technology is here to help, Please feel free to ask if you have any questions.
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MAJESTIC MONITORING SOFTWARE AUTOMATED SYSTEM HEALTH CHECK SCRIPTS NOW RUN 24 X 7

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“Prevention is better than cure” , we strongly believe in this at Majestic Computer Technology. We run health check scripts on all SLA systems every week in order to minimise any production outage, data loss and also to detect any hardware issues which requires attention. Now, we have upgraded our monitoring software to run health check scripts on all SLA systems 24 x 7 which means the script runs in regular intervals as long as the systems are turned on.

Our health check scripts constantly monitor System and application performance, hardware usage, security policies and alerts us when it matters. They constantly keep an eye on the following
  • System backups – Any failed backups will be immediately notified to our engineers
  • Missing patches – We ensure all the important updates are made during the maintenance, our health check script verifies it again.
  • Disk drive monitoring – Disk errors, file system errors are always monitored along with disk space in order to avoid any program failures or any degradation of performance.
  • Hardware and software corruption – Majestic monitoring system alerts when it detects abnormal hardware or software behaviour. Missing or outdated hardware drivers, we do our best to keep them upto date.

Majestic Computer Technology’s Service Level Agreement includes all the above work, giving you a sense of security and ensure that you are in safe hands.

If you would like to know more, please feel free to contact Majestic Computer Technology at any time. We are here to help.

HUDSON BAKER MYOB NETWORK APPLICATIONS IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT

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Majestic was appointed to plan and upgrade Hudson Baker’s network as well as implement MYOB network applications on the server.

Hudson Baker Pty Ltd, an accounting firm based in the Melbourne suburb of Cheltenham, specialises in helping successful small-medium business owners and successful professionals. They specialise in providing individual tax returns in addition to business taxation to relating to sole traders, partnerships, companies and trusts.

Majestic evaluated, planned and implemented the successful network upgrade and the MYOB network applications by:-

  1. Migrating from Windows Server 2003 environment to Windows Server 2012 environment
  2. Reconfiguring existing printers, switches and routers
  3. Migrating workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7
  4. Implementation of Antivirus program providing the first line of defence by actively filtering malicious attachments, virus and malware threats
  5. Installing and upgrading MYOB applications on the new server
  6. Moving MYOB data from workstations to a single location on the server
  7. Implementing full backup and imaging solution for disaster recovery

BAD RABBIT RANSOMWARE IS SWEEPING ACROSS THE MAJOR PARTS OF THE GLOBE

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New ransomware called Bad Rabbit is taking over computers across Europe.It’s locking users out of their machines and demanding money from them, but security experts are warning people not to pay up.It’s currently unclear if infected computers can be fully restored, but there are ways to protect yourself from the cyber attack.

The criminals behind Bad Rabbit are tricking people into infecting themselves, by disguising the malware as an Adobe flash installer and planting it on legitimate websites that have been compromised.
After infecting one machine in a network – one computer in an office, for example – Bad Rabbit can find any login details stored on the machine which it uses to spread to others, security researchers have claimed.
Dos and Don’ts

  • Do not install any flash updates that appear on your screen asking you to install.
  • Do keep anti-virus software up to date.
  • Do not click any links on a suspicious email.
  • Do not give any sensitive information through email

As always, please feel free to contact Majestic Computer Technology for any help.

ACCC WARNS OF FAKE NBN SCAMMERS – BEWARE OF FAKE PHONECALLS AND EMAILS

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Nearly $28,000 has been stolen from Australians this year by scammers pretending to be the NBN in order to steal money and personal information.
Scamwatch has already received 316 complaints this year related to scams impersonating the NBN, according to the ACCC.
“Scammers are increasingly using trusted government brands like NBN to trick people into falling for scams,” ACCC deputy chair Delia Rickard said. “Their goal is always to either get hold of your money or personal information.”

One of the most common scams involves scammers ringing victims to connect them to an NBN service and demanding payment with an iTunes gift card.
Rickard said that Australians over 65 are particularly vulnerable to cold calls from scammers, who often demand payment via iTunes gift cards. “Legitimate businesses, especially those like NBN, will never ask you to pay for anything in this way,” Rickard said.
“NBN will never phone you out of the blue to try to sign you up to a service over its network. NBN is a wholesaler, meaning they don’t sell direct to the public. If you get an unsolicited call like this, it’s a big red flag that you are dealing with a scammer,” Rickard said.
“NBN will also never call you to remotely ‘fix’ a problem with your computer, or to request personal information like your Medicare number or your bank account numbers. Do not listen to the reasons they give you for needing this information.”
Rickard advised Australians to hang up and contact their retail service provider if they were in doubt about a caller purporting to be from the NBN.

Protect Yourself

  • Know who you are talking to
  • Protect your personal information
  • If you think you’ve been scammed, report it immediately