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Cert NZ Business online security assessment tool

Cert NZ Business online security assessment tool

by Andrew Hunt | Jun 27, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

A Personal Encounter with Cert NZ’s Assessment Tool. Have you recently received an email about cyber-security that set off your system’s alarms? It’s ironic isn’t it? That was my recent experience with an email from Cert NZ. Despite the initial...
Avoid the IT Travel Woes

Avoid the IT Travel Woes

by Andrew Hunt | Jun 19, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security, Webinar Recording

Free Webinar Replay : Avoid the IT Travel Woes Business travel is fraught enough.  It’s a nightmare to balance tight connections, and tough time zones with work colleagues that are accustomed to being able to link you into Teams meetings and urgent chats. How...
Lessons from the Change Healthcare attack. Why MFA Matters

Lessons from the Change Healthcare attack. Why MFA Matters

by Andrew Hunt | Jun 4, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security

By now, regular readers know how important MFA is. Unbelievably, there are still some people who think this is for someone else, and they don’t need it themselves.   Unfortunately, we are seeing some of these people fall victim to the very scams we’ve been...
What happened when we got told we’d been hacked?

What happened when we got told we’d been hacked?

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...
Can VPNs be defeated?

Can VPNs be defeated?

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...
Will some of your emails stop?

Will some of your emails stop?

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...
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