by Andrew Hunt | Dec 2, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Denial of Service (aka what went wrong at the NZX?) In September the NZ Stock Exchange was the victim of an attempted extortion via a DDOS attack. The attack took them offline serval times over a number of days. Many business are now asking, what is DDOS and could...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 23, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
There is a pay-off!! While there are few things as annoying as Office occasionally pausing to install new features, there is a benefit in the new abilities you get. While the timing always seems to be terrible, it should save you time in the long run. Here’s three of...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 22, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
CERT NZ have issued a warning about Nitro PDF. It’s a common PDF tool that users log into to share documents. Unfortunately, there are reports that hackers have breached their database We’re being told that “Nitro PDF, a PDF enterprise document creation and sharing...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 16, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Cyber-crime is estimated to earn criminals US$7 Trillion a year That sort of money buys cyber criminals a lot of resources. It’s no surprise then that cybercrime has its own support industries. You don’t need to access the “Darknet” to purchase hacker...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 12, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
In August we all heard about Team NZ falling prey to a $2.8 million invoice payment fraud. It was the now-familiar story of a fake or hacked email, asking for payment to go to a different bank account. We should all be familiar with these tales by now. I’m sure that...
