Today Is World Backup – Day 31st March 2025 – Please Protect Your Data

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 Peter Herriman from Web South says, A new ‘Gotcha’ – Had just seen this one, so adding it to the list here.Down below I mention ‘Cloud Backups’ and in this situation it was faithfully doing a backup of the computer at hand. What surprised me was that when the data was suddenly not available on … Read more

Cyber Security Awareness Month 2023 – Be Cyber Wise, Don’t Compromise

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October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, a time for all Australians to improve their cyber security knowledge and take action to protect their information and devices. The theme for Cyber Security Awareness Month 2023 is ‘be cyber wise – don’t compromise’. We’re encouraging you to take 4 simple steps to be cyber wise: Update your … Read more

Today Is World Backup – Day 31st March – Please Protect Your Data

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Peter Herriman from Web South says, “We actually recommend regular backups, and multiple storage locations and devices, but I learnt those techniques during the early ’80’s and on mainframe systems with data worth millions of dollars (back then, imagine now as there is so much more data stored!). All the same, we are well aware … Read more

Web South Under New Ownership

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Well, it had to happen sometime, ‘The Old Fellow’ (Pete) has ‘retired’, and now ‘Son’ (Luke) had taken over the business, so the Web South business will continue on with the same great service as before. Pete is still hovering in the background helping out where he can, he can’t completely go ‘cold turkey’ on … Read more