by Andrew Hunt | Aug 18, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Canon just sent out a warning. Wipe your old printers before selling/discarding them! It seems that printer technicians can access the memory and go into settings to uncover old Wifi passwords. Their advisory seems to suggest wiping the settings a couple of times...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 7, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
If 10,000 emails suddenly flooded your inbox, what would you do? Suddenly any real messages will be lost in the blitz of spam that’s overloading your screen. It is hard enough to delete all those messages, let alone filter out the genuine ones from the flood....
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 7, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
“GROUP-IB” are a Singapore-based cyber-security provider. They go deep into the cyber-crime sphere and it’s paid off. After 30+ attacks, and over $US30M stolen, “OPERA1ER” have been caught! They describe a bad actor who, from 2019, had...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 7, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
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...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 19, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
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...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 21, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Did you know that, on average, 1.2 million Microsoft accounts get compromised every month? According to Microsoft, 99.9% of hacked accounts didn’t use MFA, and only 11% of all accounts have MFA enabled. The average cost of a ransomware security breach is...
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