Mass rollout of new portals for Tax Agents underway
Online services for agents public beta rollout has commenced this month with all tax and BAS agents expected to have access by the end of March 2019.
Planning for Microsoft End of Support
End of Support deadlines are fast approaching for some Microsoft products...
Fake email scams cost Australian businesses $2.8M in 2018
Australian businesses have lost more than $2.8 million dollars to fraudsters intercepting their internal email networks, a report has revealed...
Source: ARN
Article: Passwords a 'scary' weakness in accounting firms
Forgetting passwords, using the same password for various platforms, or using autofill passwords is catching out even the most cyber safe accounting firms.
Source: accountantsdaily.com.au
How to edit PDF's in Word 2016
We came across a handy article which steps you through editing a PDF in Microsoft Word (without the need to purchase a PDF editor). The full article at PC World ...
ISDN & PSTN Services are being disconnected
As part of the NBN rollout, soon copper network services will be discontinued by Telstra.
Dalby Accounting Software Expo
Join us at the Dalby Accounting Software Expo 2.0 on Friday 2 November 9.30am-4.30pm
Top accounting software providers including MYOB, Xero, Quickbooks Online, Phoenix by Agdata & Reckon will also be attending.
This is the only complimentary event of its kind in regional Queensland and it is open to the public.
Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report: 1 April – 30 June 2018
OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches Report figures show that reported breaches have increased from 63 to 242 since the start of the year. The top sectors being affected are Finance, Health, and Legal with 36% of breaches due to human error.
Tax Portal Access Issues
Portals access issue for Internet Explorer and Safari browser users.
Re-programmable OTP tokens
Want the security of one time password authentication without the need for employees to have it configured on their own mobile device ... we can help you with this.
Accounting, finance record spate of data breaches: OAIC figures
The accounting and financial industries feature in the top-three industry sectors to report data breaches, as the first quarterly statistics come through following new data laws.
MYOB Important Updates
MYOB AE/AO Important updates before 30 September 2018
New Release AE/AO Tax
Hanrick Curran, Reserve Bank caught up in week of IT glitches
This week mid-tier firm Hanrick Curran and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have been caught up in separate IT and software glitches, posing potential fronts to privacy and data security.
Upcoming improvements to the Azure AD sign-in experience
I’d like to give you an early heads up on some visual design updates that are coming to the Azure AD sign-in experience. Customers gave us a LOT of feedback last time we updated the sign in.