by Andrew Hunt | Jul 29, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
!Right now, there’s a crypto-locked server in the lab in our Kinetics Auckland Office. It’s not from one of our clients, but a business that’s come to us, after the event, asking for help. We are busy rebuilding it and restoring the data and configuration to the...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 14, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Given the scale of cyber-attacks, we aren’t surprised to be hearing reports of insurers applying a “duty of care” test before agreeing to pay out. Despite sending chills up your spine, when you consider this, it makes sense as Insurers do the same thing to...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 6, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
An actively exploited high severity “zero day” cyber-security exploit has been found in the Google Chrome web browser. With over 3 billion users it will take some time for the update roll out to everyone. Meanwhile, everyone who uses Chrome on their PC...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 15, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
There are no silver bullets. No one can guarantee you won’t be hacked, but we can make it harder. We can reduce your cyber-risk by taking reasonable steps to make it harder to hack you. The key is to have layers of security, and to keep reviewing the technology in use...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 13, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Sometimes, it feels like there is only bad news. All businesses face challenges with suppliers, our own people and even some of our customers. As managers, we work hard to get ahead of issues and create systems to mitigate problems, but there’s always something. ...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 1, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
One of the scariest news items to wake up to is that there is a ‘zero-day’ vulnerability in a common piece of software. That means that the hacking community has found an opportunity to hack a bit of software and there is no update yet – ‘zero’ days to apply a fix....
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