by Andrew Hunt | Dec 20, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
In the last week, we’ve seen two major successful attacks on critical US IT management and Cyber security tools. The first we learned about was on FireEye which is one of the leading and most trusted cyber security tools, used by much of the Fortune 500. ...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 4, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
There is no doubt about it, 2020 will be a year to remember. COVID : Lockdowns, work from home, toilet paper shortages, return to level 3, hand cleaners, level 2, mask envy, normality (kind of), lockdown again, election(s), housing market and more. Perhaps the only...
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...
