!Right now, there’s a crypto-locked server in the lab in our Kinetics Auckland Office. It’s not from one of our clients, but a business that’s come to us, after the event, asking for help. We are busy rebuilding it and restoring the data and configuration to the...
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Are you meeting the requirements of your Cyber Insurer? (And are you minimising your risk anyway?)
Given the scale of cyber-attacks, we aren’t surprised to be hearing reports of insurers applying a "duty of care" test before agreeing to pay out. Despite sending chills up your spine, when you consider this, it makes sense as Insurers do the same thing to vehicles,...
3 billion devices are at risk. Does that include you? (it probably does)
An actively exploited high severity "zero day" cyber-security exploit has been found in the Google Chrome web browser. With over 3 billion users it will take some time for the update roll out to everyone. Meanwhile, everyone who uses Chrome on their PC is...
Who is Tina?
Meet Tina Moulynox , our new Engineering Services Manager. Tina manages our engineering team, from recruitment to development, planning and all the support in-between. Tina, Welcome to Kinetics - You've been here a few weeks now - When did you actually...
We’re looking for people (you probably are too)
I'm not convinced about the 'Great Resignation' but I do think there are a few people evaluating their futures. Covid and lockdowns have taught us to think about who we are, where we are and what we want to be doing, and that's healthy. Like every organisation I've...
MFA is important, but it is no silver-bullet.
There are no silver bullets. No one can guarantee you won’t be hacked, but we can make it harder. We can reduce your cyber-risk by taking reasonable steps to make it harder to hack you. The key is to have layers of security, and to keep reviewing the technology in use...
Disaster at Kinetics
Sometimes, it feels like there is only bad news. All businesses face challenges with suppliers, our own people and even some of our customers. As managers, we work hard to get ahead of issues and create systems to mitigate problems, but there’s always something. ...
Happy Retirement Internet Explorer
Dear Internet Explorer 15th of June is your last day. No more support and you’ll effectively stop working. You’ll fade from our desktops and in time, Windows Update will clean up and even remove your icon from our screens. To be fair, most of us won’t notice. You’ve...
MS OFFICE ZERO DAY ATTACK – MAY 31st
One of the scariest news items to wake up to is that there is a ‘zero-day’ vulnerability in a common piece of software. That means that the hacking community has found an opportunity to hack a bit of software and there is no update yet – ‘zero’ days to apply a fix....
Beware – When Anti-Money Laundering (AML) CREATES a risk
That’s right. AML is not only frustrating to many of us, but it has also created cyber-risks. The irony isn’t lost on us. We’re honoured to support a large number of NZ law firms as clients, and it is a responsibility we take very seriously. Law firms handle such a...