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Look before you click

Look before you click

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...
REWATCH Cyber Lessons from the field.

REWATCH Cyber Lessons from the field.

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...
REWATCH Did you know that, on average, 1.2 million Microsoft accounts get compromised every month?

REWATCH Did you know that, on average, 1.2 million Microsoft accounts get compromised every month?

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

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

by Andrew Hunt | May 31, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

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

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

by Andrew Hunt | May 29, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

“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...
The scammers are closing in on us.

The scammers are closing in on us.

by Andrew Hunt | May 16, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

Hacks don’t just happen to other people.  The hackers are targeting all of us, every day.  Every day, we have to defend them successfully.  They only have to be successful once We all read about stories in the newspaper and there might be a sense of smugness that we...
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