Among the most dangerous types of malicious mail are the ones with viruses, malware, ransomware or trojans attached. These attachments will be disguised as common files such as PDFs, Word files etc. But downloading an attachment doesn't need to be a leap of blind faith. Use your email program to investigate these attachment threats FIRST
Last year cyber.gov.au came out with the strongly titled article “Why it’s time to ditch your one password for passphrases”. We agree! Our mailboxes require a password or passphrase that includes: 1. lowercase 2. CAPITALS 3. Numb3rs 4. Special character$. We also require the pass to be at least 13 characters long. The minimum length
We have been alerted to a scam targeting payroll and administration staff. This is how the scam happens: After capturing the name of a legitimate staff member, the scammer sends an email in the staff member’s name to the workplace. Titled “New Banking Details” or similar, this email requests an update to the staff member’s
The Victorian Government has introduced the Kinder Tick logo to help families find funded and approved kindergarten programs. Funded services are encouraged to display the Kinder Tick on email signatures, websites, media and anywhere that will help families identify approved programs. This tip will explain how to add the email signature banner in Outlook. Downloading
This tip covers some end of year considerations for staff organising files, managing outgoing staff mailboxes and accounting for changes to file sharing tools etc. Back up your data Perform an end of you back up of your data that can be stored offsite. This can be done with a portable hard drive and as
This tip will explain a method of creating Contact Groups in Outlook from an Excel spreadsheet by importing the data, sorting the new contacts by “Company” and then creating Contact Groups. This method assumes you have a large number of contacts (30+) in an Excel spreadsheet. If you only need to create a smaller number
This tip will explain one of two methods of creating contact groups in Outlook from an Excel spreadsheet. The guide assumes you have the contact details in an Excel spreadsheet sorted into the appropriate groups. Our example uses an Excel spreadsheet of family contact details sorted into each child’s enrolment group. If you need a
Make sure you are making a professional impression by setting up your email username correctly. This tip will explain how. As well as assisting with recognisability, this process also helps to ensure your mail isn’t mistaken for spam. Below are to emails sent from the same account one before editing the account name and one
Targeted phishing emails are currently being sent to registered services. Below is an example: ACECQA have responded and instructed recipients: This is NOT an official email from ACECQA. It is a spam email that should be deleted - do not click on the link. If you did click on the link in the spam email
When your inbox starts to receive full quota alerts you can turn on Auto-Archive. This will free up space and move mail to a local personal folder. For POP and IMAP accounts, Outlook lets you create an Archive folder or choose an existing folder to use as an Archive. You can set AutoArchive by mail
