Hacks that happened via clever social engineering, vulnerabilities in wireless printer tech, and… a fish tank.
Author: Stuff Business
If you’re on the internet (and you are since you’re reading this), you should be securing your important online accounts any way you can. And I don’t mean by just using super complicated passwords, I mean by using every available means at your disposal. Like enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) anywhere that supports it, by way of mobile authenticators. The big players typically support it, so if you have accounts with Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google etc., you can activate 2FA there. Plenty of other online services offer it as well; you just need to check with the ones you use the…
It’s a fact that with business, comes admin. And anyone who says they love doing it is a dirty liar trying to convince you to do it for them. Doing your part in getting admin done is also only half the battle. The other half is everything other people (accountants, HR, lawyers, etc.) need to do for you every month. And to top it all off, you have the challenge of keeping all associated documentation secure and making sure that only the intended recipients can access them. You don’t want just anybody to see your invoices, quotes, contracts, HR docs,…
In 2023, most of us don’t get through a day without messaging someone with our phones, using any of a growing number of apps. WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is the most popular one (certainly here in South Africa) as it’s one of the most dominant apps in this growing industry. We can remember how in 2009, people took to it in droves and didn’t look back. However, that success attracted the attention of Facebook, who bought it in 2014. And because Facebook’s MO was to turn privacy violations into money brought with it privacy and security concerns, people started to…
Earlier this year, Stuff’s editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak wrote about the concept of low-code/no-code, a new advancement inside the world of software development that lets people make cool software without needing to be programmers. People, including those who own, manage, or otherwise run small businesses. Following on from that, we thought we’d put something together on the kinds of projects that small businesses can embark on, using low-code/no-code software. While some no-code solutions are fairly complicated and require that you familiarise yourself with them to use them effectively, others are as easy as reading the screen or following prompts to build…
If your business is not already on Instagram, it’s time to ask why. Instagram is one of the most popular online content platforms, and if you don’t have a presence there, do you even business, bro? Instagram is surprisingly flexible and offers anyone with an existing account the option to change it to an Instagram Business account for free. Doing that gives you access to a whole new part of Instagram: Analytics tools (concrete metrics that show how your posts are doing) The ability to run and track ads Even the ability to sell things directly on the platform And…
Earlier this year at the Kaspersky Cyber Security Weekend, it was revealed (via ITWeb) that phishing saw a major increase in the Middle-east, Turkey, and Africa (META) region in Q1. Compared to the same period in 2022, phishing rose by 7% in South Africa, 53% in Nigeria, and 87% in Kenya. While 7% might not seem significant, at the very least it shows that cyber scammers are upping their phishing efforts to fool South Africans into sharing information that they really shouldn’t. The problem is so bad that some, if not all, South African banks even send out fake phishing emails to…
There’s only one thing worse than meetings, and that’s having to pay attention and take accurate notes. That explains the rise of AI-powered transcription services to some extent – it makes more sense to make robots transcribe boring things than it is to put ourselves through the stresses of doing it all by hand. No matter whether you’ve recorded only the audio of your meetings or you have video files to work from, there are now automatic transcription services that can help turn that media into searchable text documents for a modest fee. They’re great for turning any audio into…
What’s better than getting good tips for using Microsoft Word? Getting more great tips for using Microsoft Word. Obviously. So that’s what we’ve done. Last week, we gave you five handy tips, and this week we’re going to give you five more. Because we love ya, baby. Tip 1: Customise the ribbon If you find that you use some of Word’s ribbon commands more than others, you can customise the ribbon to only show the commands you use the most. Do this by right-clicking on any open space on the ribbon and choosing Customise the Ribbon to open a dialogue…
Microsoft Word is a part of everyday work life for many workers. But even if you have been using Word for years, you probably don’t know everything there is to know about the software. So, we’ve put together five tips we discovered when trawling through the internet in search of good Stuff Business content for our readers. Even we learned a few things about Word while researching this article, and we use Word every day! Tip 1: Take Advantage of Headers and Footers When you create professional-looking documents in Word, they are expected to look the part. There’s no better way…