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...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 6, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Even hackers can be hacked! Isn’t that serendipitous? There is a website, Cit0Day.in, which hosts 23,000 hacked databases. Access is available at a cost, daily or monthly subscription. Hackers mine this data for passwords and other information. They then use...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 6, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
For our working generation, desktop computers have been a mainstay of our work life. Its a very different world to the generation before us. In fact this month marks 40 years since IBM signed two young men from a new business called ‘Microsoft’ to write...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 28, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
According to CheckPoint, Microsoft is THE most imitated brand on the internet. We all know that criminals like to pretend to be Microsoft for their phishing attempts, and in the last quarter, misuse of the Microsoft brand for this jumped dramatically – 19% of all...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 5, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Most IT support partners miss the most important task of all. ie what does it really take to be a valued IT Partner All IT partners will talk to you about tickets, capacity planning and life cycle replacements, cloud migrations and cyber security. But that’s...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 2, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
We recently moved our phones to Microsoft Teams. It’s an increasingly common configuration and means we have a single programme for our real-time collaboration. Less is more! There’s nothing like a project that removes infrastructure and risk. We have less to...
