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“Request for Information” warning

“Request for Information” warning

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...
Eliot Sinclair Case study – FlightPlan (Best Practice Review)

Eliot Sinclair Case study – FlightPlan (Best Practice Review)

by Andrew Hunt | Oct 18, 2019 | Case Studies and Success Stories

Overview Eliot Sinclair & Partners (ESP) provide surveying, engineering, planning, landscape architecture and urban design consulting. Headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand, Eliot Sinclair have provided consultancy services across South Pacific and Asia with...
Those scamming so and so’s

Those scamming so and so’s

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...
Microsoft Update – Backup Authenticator (Two-factor authentication tool) and Window 10 1909 ?

Microsoft Update – Backup Authenticator (Two-factor authentication tool) and Window 10 1909 ?

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...
Bigger than Texas?

Bigger than Texas?

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...
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