by Andrew Hunt | Nov 19, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Here at Kinetics we encourage young people that want a career in IT. And we know that getting started is always the hard part. To help, we run an intern program and encouraged senior staff in mentoring new comers to IT. Kinetics know that starting a career can...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 13, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
At last – Windows 10 1909 – the long awaited second Windows 10 update for 2019. Were you waiting for it? Actually it’s unlikely! In fact the first update, from March, is only just rolling out now, so it will be some time before this version hits your PC or laptop....
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 11, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
A recently released report on the Botnet ‘MasterMana’ has highlighted a simple but effective social engineering technique. MasterMana has been spreading via emails requesting information on products or services offered by the target company. The...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 2, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
In September, Kinetics held a lunchtime IT security event focused around a presentation by our CTO Bill Lunam. After taking us though an abridged history of the internet, and an update on the current status of Internet crime, Bill explained some specific’s around the...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 29, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Firstly, unless you just delete our emails, or ignore what we (and every other tech professional) have been saying, you should now be using 2FA (two factor authentication) on pretty much everything, especially your Office365. The downside is that you don’t want to...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 22, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Its easy to think of security as something that’s only for larger organisations. They can afford the fancy systems that lock down networks, wireless connections and endpoint PCs & mobile devices. After all, aren’t they the only organisations that hackers...
