by Andrew Hunt | Feb 1, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Microsoft have been releasing patches for 30 years. It’s easy to become blasé about them. Yes, Microsoft can automatically apply updates to Windows and Office. But that does not mean that you can rely on it. Any system is only as good as how well it is monitored....
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 23, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
One of the great strengths of Microsoft and Office has been their continuity. Word, Excel, Outlook and so on have worked fairly seamlessly across all our old documents and new ones, and files on our PCs, servers and in the cloud. It’s even worked from our mobile...
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 13, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
ChatGPT seems to be the talk of summer. Whether people are using it to write marketing material, prepare articles or profiles, it seems to be amazing users all over the world, apparently including Microsoft who seem to be considering a major $10Bn investment in it. If...
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 11, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Where do these names come from? The latest trend is referred to as Pig-Butchering. The name comes from the Chinese underworld (shāzhūpán). The term refers to fattening up a pig, taking a longer-term view. They develop their target slowly, looking to get maximum...
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 10, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
As always, we know we will be wrong, but it doesn’t stop us speculating! There might be fears of global recessions and doom and gloom, but the tech sector will keep innovating! Here are our top 5 guesses for 2023 1. Artificial Intelligence – What will we see this...
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 9, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
There have recently been a couple of well-publicised breaches of LastPass. Most people will be familiar with LastPass but in case you are not, it’s a well-known and popular password vault/manager. Does this mean you shouldn’t use a password vault? Absolutely not. ...
