New DDOS threats (with Bitcoin demands) are being sent to AU / NZ businesses
Statistics show that there are more hacks and exploits than ever before - from the hilarious Catfi.sh hack at Tinder which resulted in males talking to males (and thinking they were talking to females) to the more sinister hack at TV5Monde that saw the French...
Insight Event – Satyam Vaghani, PernixData
The second in our Insight Event series, blueAPACHE is delighted to be hosting an exclusive round table luncheon with VMware storage evangelist and PernixData co-founder; Satyam Vaghani. The event Strictly limited in numbers, this exclusive luncheon is an...
blueAPACHE and Veeam extend partnership
Press Release. Melbourne, Australia – blueAPACHE, a leading managed network and cloud solutions provider for organisations with business critical IT requirements, have extended their partnership with Veeam to offer easier, more accessible and more secure back up and...
blueAPACHE amongst the top ranked MSP companies world wide
Press Release. Melbourne, Australia – blueAPACHE, a leading managed network and cloud solutions provider for organisations with business critical IT requirements, marks its fourth appearance on Penton Technology’s 8th annual MSPmentor 501 Global Edition - a...
Cryptolocker – a deeper look
First observed in September 2013, CryptoLocker is ransomware malware that when activated, encrypts files stored locally and on mounted network drives using RSA public-key cryptography. The malware displays a countdown message offering to decrypt the data if a payment...
Insight Event: Palo Alto Networks
blueAPACHE recently hosted an exclusive lunch with Palo Alto Networks Security evangelist, Tim Treat. On loan from Palo Alto Networks’ head office, Tim started his career in the United States Air Force where he led global fixed and deployed organisations performing...
Oh no Lenovo!
The past few weeks haven't been great for Lenovo, and rightly so. Security researchers recently discovered that consumer-grade Lenovo computers ship with software called Superfish Visual Discovery that injects advertising (using web-intercepting technology from...
Security and sovereignty biggest concerns with growing cloud adoption
New research from Vanson Bourne (commissioned by Tata Communications) reinforces that cloud can help make IT more relevant to the business. And while this isn't exactly news, it is good to see that cloud computing is finally being recognised for its ability to...
Target malware attack – what have we learnt?
It wasn't just Santa on the move in December 2013. Target in the US had just suffered a severe security breach that resulted in 40 million accounts being accessed and the credit and debit card details being appropriated by hackers. A month later they announced that...