There's nothing like seeing the computer display hall at MOTAT to be reminded of how much things change and how quickly. One of the sayings I heard late last year was that never in history has business has never changed faster than now, and yet it will never change...
[header2 text="Unless cloud changes how you operate, you are missing the point" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] Is the Cloud helping you drive your bottom line - Are you doing the same stuff the same way or using the cloud to do new things better? The cloud...
[header2 text="CryptoStopper!?" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] That’s right, a CryptoLocker Stopper. [header2 text="Is there really such a thing?" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] It appears so, at least for some forms of the beast. This amazing...
By now, most of our followers will know what spearphishing is - we've posted before about it [header2 text="Spearphishing just stepped up a notch and no one is immune." align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] Most of our client's have now experienced an attack, but...
CryptoLocker is online extortion. It encrypts your files and then demands a fee to unencrypt them. Paying the fee is no guarantee your files will get unlocked or that they will not get encrypted again. Like traditional extortion, paying the fee only encourages the...
The coffee machine is a great place to debate the world’s issues. Of course in a tech business, our discussions tend to dodge sports, politics and philosophy in favour of what’s on our various phones! One of the team was trying to figure out how, when he googled a...
[header2 text="Microsoft recognises Kinetics and its partners at annual awards" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] Kinetics was among a group of associated companies to win awards at Microsoft New Zealand’s annual awards on 7 April 2016. Winning Learning...
Virtual Reality's been grabbing some attention lately. Hololens, Oculus Rift etc are all exciting new technologies to give us this 'virtual reality' world. But they're all still 'coming' and they look expensive. Luckily we don't have to wait, and we don't have to...
We've just learned that Microsoft has initiated a voluntary recall for AC power cords (the cord that plugs into an electrical outlet) sold with the Microsoft Surface Pro and Microsoft Surface Pro 2, and with any Microsoft Surface Pro 3 purchased prior to July 15, 2015...
While we've been enjoying a great kiwi summer, it seems the virus writers and hackers have been busy. They've unleashed new variant's of the ransomware viruses, but this time the old trick of looking for poor English isn't working - the language looks more credible. ...