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...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 26, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Straight out of the movies We are all used to the idea of using our fingerprints to log into our cell phones and, for some of us, our laptops. We’ve been told fingerprints are secure, and effective for ‘biometric authentication’ In the movies, we see finger prints...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 24, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
What is vishing? Vishing is scamming via phone calls, effectively “phishing” by voice, hence the name, Voice phishing – Wikipedia Unfortunately, like many other cyber-attacks, incidents are on the rise. Because the damage is done over a phone...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 17, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Every business collects data, from sales leads to financial transactions and everything in between. Increasingly data is the new ‘gold’. The problem is, unlike actual gold that you can put in a vault, data is weightless, and your staff need access to your data to get...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 16, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Not too long ago, (some) businesses tried to limit websites that people could visit during working hours. They blocked social sites and Trademe and so forth. The logic was that people should be working, not surfing the net. Luckily this seems to have faded – staff are...
