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The Worst Hack in US History

The Worst Hack in US History

by Andrew Hunt | Dec 20, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

In the last week, we’ve seen two major successful attacks on critical US IT management and Cyber security tools. The first we learned about was on FireEye which is one of the leading and most trusted cyber security tools, used by much of the Fortune 500. ...
Windows 7 slips quietly away

Windows 7 slips quietly away

by Andrew Hunt | Dec 4, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

There is no doubt about it, 2020 will be a year to remember. COVID : Lockdowns, work from home, toilet paper shortages, return to level 3, hand cleaners, level 2, mask envy, normality (kind of), lockdown again, election(s), housing market and more.  Perhaps the only...
DDOS – Distributed Denial of Service Attack (aka what went wrong at the NZ Stock Exchange)

DDOS – Distributed Denial of Service Attack (aka what went wrong at the NZ Stock Exchange)

by Andrew Hunt | Dec 2, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

Denial of Service (aka what went wrong at the NZX?) In September the NZ Stock Exchange was the victim of an attempted extortion via a DDOS attack.  The attack took them offline serval times over a number of days.  Many business are now asking, what is DDOS and could...
What’s new in Microsoft Office for the end of 2020?

What’s new in Microsoft Office for the end of 2020?

by Andrew Hunt | Nov 23, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

There is a pay-off!! While there are few things as annoying as Office occasionally pausing to install new features, there is a benefit in the new abilities you get. While the timing always seems to be terrible, it should save you time in the long run. Here’s three of...
Urgent Security Warning – Nitro PDF

Urgent Security Warning – Nitro PDF

by Andrew Hunt | Nov 22, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

CERT NZ have issued a warning about Nitro PDF.  It’s a common PDF tool that users log into to share documents.  Unfortunately, there are reports that hackers have breached their database We’re being told that “Nitro PDF, a PDF enterprise document creation and sharing...
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