by Andrew Hunt | Aug 17, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Keep an eye on your payroll! We’re hearing about a bold new scam in the US, but it’s bound to come to our shores soon. It’s probably more likely to be effective in larger businesses or ones with an outsourced payroll. Essentially, the scammers try...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 17, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
You are most vulnerable when you are busy, frantically jumping from call to call, meeting to meeting, distraction to distraction. So when you get a dodgy email, it’s very easy to open it. This morning, that was me! And, even as hyper-aware as I am, I still...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 14, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Watch your phone! Agent Smith is the name of the somewhat dry villain character in the Matrix movie trilogy from the late 90’s. He appears everywhere, instantly, taking over legitimate personas and replacing them with himself. So is a well-named virus (actually...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 5, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Modernise your infrastructure and future-proof your technology Prepare for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 end of support With the end of support for Windows Server 2008 fast approaching, and SQL Server 2008 recently expired, now is the time to start...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 11, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Regular readers will know that we are fanatical about updates and patches for all critical software. The world is more connected and the cyber-crime community is more organised and determined than ever. If you think cyber-criminals are teenage kids working from home,...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 30, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS
We were reminded of the risks of messing up spreadsheets in a recent blog post at Oracle: The scary fact they quote is that 88% of all spreadsheets are wrong! The consequences of relying on bad information as a result can be insane! That reminded me of a couple of...
