by Andrew Hunt | Jun 10, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
When the Microsoft cloud had a momentary failure in early May, most of us had an uncomfortable hour with limited access to our files and systems. It seems that some red-faced engineer at Microsoft made a simple small mistake that impacted systems all around the...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 5, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
It’s time to say goodbye to Windows 7 The end of the (support) road is approaching rapidly. They are over ten years old which is ancient in IT terms. If you think about tech around your home or in your daily life, then its quite understandable that these...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 5, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Cyber-crime has become big business It’s organised, and the purveyors are shameless in their determination to steal from all of us. Heaven only knows where they get their names from. One group we recently became aware of is called ‘PINCHY SPIDER’,...
by Andrew Hunt | May 4, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Guess who got hacked? In recent articles, we’ve warned that people are the weakest link in your IT security. We’ve also warned that any business is a target. No one is immune. Tech companies like us are especially cautious because, in order to do our job, we have...
by Andrew Hunt | Apr 18, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Overshadowed by overseas privacy law changes like GDPR, our own NZ Privacy legislation has flown a little under the radar. But rest assured, changes are coming here as well. The last change in NZ Law was 1993, and it was world-leading at the time. Then in 2011, the...
by Andrew Hunt | Apr 13, 2019 | Case Studies and Success Stories, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
We are incredibly proud to have helped The Te Whangai Trust. They are an amazing organisation. There’s a whole group of society that miss out on the opportunities many of us take for-granted. While many under-privileged members of our community can access various...