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...
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’,...
