by Andrew Hunt | Feb 22, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Over a quarter of a billion people use Teams every month. Under the current lockdown/isolate/work-from-home regimes, it is a vital tool for most of us. Many organisations including us even use it for our phones because it is so flexible and excellent value. You can...
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 25, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
How many people DON’T report ransomware attacks? It’s too early to see the Q42021 results from CertNZ but their Q3 report tells there were 2,072 incidents that they responded to in Q3 and fraud/scam’s were up 25%. Their report confirms that the very risks we have been...
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 19, 2022 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Crime doesn’t always pay. The FSB reports (if you can read Russian) that they have taken down the “Revil” band of hackers. These are the people that have caused absolute havoc, from disrupting the US oil pipelines, to the Kaseya attack that took out businesses all...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 13, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Mainstream media is abuzz with the latest software vulnerability. It is in a commonly used component called Log4J 2. This component is in widespread use and the risk is real. This is a fast paced and quickly changing alert. At the time of writing, the immediate...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 6, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
The answer : Having to pay it twice – (or even more). Your Cyber-Security is under more pressure than ever. According to Infosecurity magazine, “double” extortion ransomware victims are up a massive 935% – thats a ten-fold increase...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 30, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Whatever it takes to draw your attention to Cyber Security is worth it. Just because we take time off at Christmas doesn’t mean the hackers do. They have taken a lot of heart from the way we have all embraced home-delivery for our shopping and are doubling down...
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