by Andrew Hunt | May 21, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
“We’ve been hacked”. When you hear that the world stops. What does this mean? How bad is it? How can we manage that? That was the news earlier this week. It was quite confronting! Suddenly your careful plans for the day are thrown aside as your priorities have...
by Andrew Hunt | May 16, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
We’re reading about a flaw called ‘TunnelVision’ that could give hackers access to overcome virtually any VPN security solutions. It works by manipulating routing in DHCP, which is the mechanism networks use to hand out IP addresses to devices. DHCP has been around...
by Andrew Hunt | Apr 17, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Microsoft Exchange Online to retire Basic authentication We are going to face a big change coming in September 2025, Microsoft is going to be disabling SMTP Basic Authentication. This continues work they commenced a couple years ago to disable other protocols such as...
by Andrew Hunt | Apr 9, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
A guide to making your online accounts more secure and less boring Have you ever used your birthday, your pet’s name, or the word “password” as your password? If so, you’re not alone. According to a study by NordPass, these are some of the most...
by Andrew Hunt | Mar 29, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
At Kinetics, we’ve always emphasized the importance of multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a critical layer in cybersecurity. Without MFA, it’s only a matter of time before you fall victim to a cyber attack. However, as we’ve also mentioned, no...
by Andrew Hunt | Mar 28, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
It does not seem that long ago I would hear Mac users say “I don’t need Anti-Virus”, or “Mac’s are not affected”. To a certain extent they were right. Apple’s use of tightly controlled application approvals reduced the surface area for attack. Mac...
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