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Is your Fingerprint effective security?

Is your Fingerprint effective security?

by Andrew Hunt | Nov 26, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

Straight out of the movies We are all used to the idea of using our fingerprints to log into our cell phones and, for some of us, our laptops. We’ve been told fingerprints are secure, and effective for ‘biometric authentication’ In the movies, we see finger prints...
Have you been vished?

Have you been vished?

by Andrew Hunt | Nov 24, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

What is vishing? Vishing is scamming via phone calls,  effectively “phishing” by voice, hence the name,  Voice phishing – Wikipedia  Unfortunately, like many other cyber-attacks, incidents are on the rise. Because the damage is done over a phone...
Beware – Social Engineering! The number one security threat to business is your people!

Beware – Social Engineering! The number one security threat to business is your people!

by Andrew Hunt | Nov 17, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

Every business collects data, from sales leads to financial transactions and everything in between. Increasingly data is the new ‘gold’. The problem is, unlike actual gold that you can put in a vault, data is weightless, and your staff need access to your data to get...
Dodging dodgy websites

Dodging dodgy websites

by Andrew Hunt | Nov 16, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

Not too long ago, (some) businesses tried to limit websites that people could visit during working hours. They blocked social sites and Trademe and so forth. The logic was that people should be working, not surfing the net. Luckily this seems to have faded – staff are...
What will the Microsoft annual/monthly licensing changes mean for you?

What will the Microsoft annual/monthly licensing changes mean for you?

by Andrew Hunt | Nov 3, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

A few weeks ago, we warned you about changes to Microsoft 365 pricing coming in at March 2022. We still don’t know the exact prices.  Microsoft have published some USD numbers and we have used those to base an estimate on, but we don’t know for certain...
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