by Andrew Hunt | Jan 3, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
What New Zealand Businesses Need to Learn from 126,000 Compromised Patient Records New Zealand’s largest patient information portal confirmed a major cyber security breach on New Year’s Eve, with up to 126,000 users potentially affected. The Manage My...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 29, 2025 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Significant Hacking Trend Over this 2025/26 Christmas and New Year period, our Kinetics KARE security monitoring has detected a significant increase in sophisticated authentication attacks targeting New Zealand businesses. KARE Foundation clients are protected and...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 22, 2025 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Yet another IT acronym: “DMARC” DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance. It’s an email authentication protocol that helps protect your domain from being used in email spoofing, phishing attacks, and...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 16, 2025 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Protecting Yourself from Cyber Threats While on Holiday We’re more vulnerable than normal to hackers at this time of year. Unfortunately, the hackers know it and tend to be more aggressive. In the rush up to Christmas, there’s normally so much to do that...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 15, 2025 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Important Update for KARE Foundation Subscribers If you’ve noticed your Microsoft Secure Score percentage decreasing recently, don’t be alarmed. Your security hasn’t weakened. In fact, Microsoft is making significant enhancements that will...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 8, 2025 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Why This Brief Matters A cybercriminal only has to be lucky once. You have to be lucky every minute of every day. That remains the stark reality for kiwi businesses in Q4 2025. This isn’t another dry technical report filled with acronyms and alerts. Kinetics has...
Recent Comments