Steven Lutrov

March 10, 2017
Data breach notification laws come to Australia
Privacy laws in Australia are about to change. They are being modernised to help protect individuals’ personal and sensitive information. In February, both Houses of Parliament passed a bill to introduce mandatory data breach notification laws. When the laws come into effect sometime this year, we all will […]
September 23, 2016
CYREN CyberThreat Report August 2016
The CYREN CyberThreat Report for August 2016 has been released. A recent Osterman Research survey conducted on behalf of Cyren found Phishing to be the top threat category for small- to medium- sized businesses (up to 3,000 employees). A staggering 43% of those businesses reported suffering a phishing […]
July 10, 2016
How Much Does a Website Cost?
In this Blog I share some of our internal processes and methodology used at Net Solutions to provide a cost estimate to build a website. I spent many years pioneering and implementing activity based costing for major Telcos with great success. It may sound simple but its the […]
May 10, 2016
Ransomware Surges 14% in Q1 2016
The number of users affected by ransomware has increased by 30% in the first three months of this year. The Russian AV firm Kaspersky Lab said it’s security systems prevented more than 370,000 attacks on users in Q1 2016, 7% of which were aimed at the corporate sector. […]
March 13, 2016
Blog for the sake of Blogging
Blogging began in the latter half of the 1990s where people shared their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and opinions online, much like a bulletin board. Today we still blog in much the same way, but the role that blogs play in driving traffic to your website has never been […]
November 12, 2015
Malware Distribution Peaks on Fridays: CYREN Cyber Threat Report
Once again our friends at CYREN reveal that an average of 2.25 billion malware attachments were detected on Fridays during Q3 2015. It shows shows that attackers were seeking to take advantage of employees being less protected over the weekend. The trend also resulted in IT professionals having […]
December 23, 2014
BruteProtect acquired by Automattic – Jetpack or Bloatpack
For quite some time now we have been using the BruteProtect plugin for our Managed WordPress clients. BruteProtect allows the millions of WordPress bloggers to work together to defeat Brute Force attacks using a cloud based solution. It served us well and was a member of the Net […]