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Look before you click

Look before you click

The latest trend in phishing is pictures! It might be a thumb nail of a picture - a cute pet, interesting garden scene, or some other curiosity. It might be in the form of advertisement.   Maybe it is offering a time sensitive, and urgent deal.   It might even be a...

REWATCH Cyber Lessons from the field.

REWATCH Cyber Lessons from the field.

What can we learn from recent NZ cyber-events? What is real and what is hyperbole? Scroll down for the MFA revelation - it will surprise you!Introducing Campbell McKenzie from Incident Response, the team called in after cyber-events to help clean up and manage the...

Get ready for your AI Copilot

Get ready for your AI Copilot

We’re excited about Copilot. It was announced a few weeks ago, Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work - The Official Microsoft Blog and promises to help us do what Microsoft call ‘the drudgery of work on tasks that zap our time, creativity and...

Free AI images: Have you tried Microsoft Designer yet?

Free AI images: Have you tried Microsoft Designer yet?

What is Microsoft Designer? If you have had fun with ChatGPT, (ChatGPT, write me a security policy in the theme of a country and western ballad) then you’ll love experimenting with Microsoft Designer. Like ChatGPT, designer brings AI to the desktop, in this case to...

What level of cyber-security is right for my organisation?

What level of cyber-security is right for my organisation?

The world is changing. Your company's cyber security is increasingly under threat and the costs of mitigation are often unwelcome. The first question organisations need to ask is whether they are exposed, and to what level. All the available data from sources like...

How many of these 10 layers of cyber protection do you use?

How many of these 10 layers of cyber protection do you use?

"A cybercriminal only has to be lucky once, while a defender has to be lucky every minute of every day.” - Combating Ransomware - A Comprehensive Framework for Action: Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force. The message we hear from governance boards over...

Opinion: Does ChatGPT make you safer?

Opinion: Does ChatGPT make you safer?

Skynet who? There’s no end of sci-fi movies about the end of the world being brought on by self-aware AI tools. You can relax for now.  ChatGPT is no such monster, but it does have an impact on our cyber-resilience. We’re watching universities and other educators...