We'd rather be writing about positive exciting things, like our favourite mobile apps, or industry trends and how they relate to our clients. Unfortunately, the hackers keep taking our attention. Here's the latest one today - and doesn't it look authentic! The first...
Its Christmas time again (well almost) and along with shopping, gifts, Christmas parties, holiday bookings and the thousands of other things in need of sorting. There are also a couple of IT related items to be checked off. [header2 text="Backups" align="left"...
If, like me, you love OneDrive, be warned that the space you get for free is being reduced. [header2 text="I love using OneDrive!" align="left" color="#00cfef" margintop=""] I use it to keep the family photos, to backup the camera on my Android phone, to store my...
There's yet another new, and nasty, 'phishing' attack doing the rounds. We've heard it called SpearPhishing, or Whaling. Here's how it works. The villains research the name of your CEO and your accountant/CFO. This is often just a matter of looking on your website...
There's a lot of interest in cyber security this week - from client business cellphones going missing, 'crypto-locker' scares on office PCs and over the last few days - enquiries stemming from new business insurance cyber-security products. We noticed an article...
Kinetics Group is proud to be a Lab Partner for the Malaghan Institute. The Malaghan Institute is New Zealand’s leading medical research institute focused on finding cures for cancer, asthma and allergy, multiple sclerosis and infectious disease. Based at Victoria...
Windows 10 is coming soon - barely a month to go, (July 29) and we've been testing the early builds extensively. [header2 text="Firstly, is it really free?" align="left" color="#00cfef" margintop=""] The answer is that if you have a current license of Windows 7, 8 or...
There's an epidemic of emails floating around right now, and even the best anti-Virus and anti-Spam are letting them through. The most common one today simply says 'Invoices' and it contains a ZIP file that it encourages you to open. [header2 text="Don't pass go -...
News today is that Offline maps are coming to Google Maps - the ability to download a map of an area before you head away - particularly useful if you are travelling somewhere where there is poor mobile coverage or expensive roaming rates. Of course, if you have an...
Some of the best cool tools sneak out under the radar, and Microsoft Office Remote is one. It's fantastic! It lets you run presentations remotely from your phone. Yes, we know there have always been tools like this around, but Office Remote is better - it fits...