by Andrew Hunt | Jun 16, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Some emails are more than just bad news No one likes bad news! But sometimes it can’t be helped. Sometimes it sneaks up on you. One of the most common ransomware attacks is through a compromised attachment in an email. It’s easy to say “only open stuff you expect” but...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 15, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Trans-Tasman outages On the 15th June Microsoft experienced issues across Australia and New Zealand with Teams calling. For Those of us using Microsoft Teams as our phone system, they stopped working. We experienced issues with inbound and outbound calls. The...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 2, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Finding the best deal This news scared me! I’m always looking for slimmer, lighter and more powerful phone chargers. As someone who likes to travel light, but be ready for anything, I always have an eye out for small chargers that can power not just my phone,...
by Andrew Hunt | May 31, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS
This whole article was written using the dictation tool! **** **** ********. We all know Microsoft are constantly updating and evolving their products. This includes the dictation tool in Word and Outlook. Recently there have been improvements including Auto...
by Andrew Hunt | May 31, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
People are the weakest link This sounds like a nightmare too impossible to happen. US soldiers putting sensitive information online in non-secure third party websites. It defies belief, yet we’re reading that it happened. The story popped up on ‘Gizmodo’ It is alleged...
by Andrew Hunt | May 29, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
If you don’t where it is, you can’t protect it. Do you know where ALL your organisation’s data is – not physically, but on which web and cloud services? Here’s the problem. If you don’t where it is, then you can’t protect it....