by Andrew Hunt | Oct 21, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security, Webinar Recording
Here’s a question we get asked a lot by people rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot: “Will Copilot let people see things they shouldn’t?” The short answer is no, Copilot doesn’t give anyone new permissions. The longer (and more uncomfortable) answer is that it makes...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 19, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
We’ve been doing managed IT since 1995, so October always makes us a bit nostalgic. It’s been a big month in computing over the years: the internet’s very first message, the iPod, and no fewer than three versions of Windows all arrived in an October. Here are the...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 19, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Three important Microsoft support deadlines all passed on the same day last week (13 October, US time), and they’re easy to miss: The first year of paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 finished, and the price has now gone up. The last year of extended...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 14, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
That cheap streaming box plugged into the back of the TV doesn’t look like much of a threat. New research suggests we should start thinking about it differently. On 12 October, William Zhou and Daniel Freeman from Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published research...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 12, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
The National Cyber Security Centre released its Cyber Threat Report 2026 on 24 September, covering 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. There’s one number in it that made me stop and read it twice. The NCSC rated four incidents during the year as C2, or “highly significant”....
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 12, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS
We all know that sinking feeling. You save over the spreadsheet you were using as a template. A folder gets dragged into the bin by accident (we helped a client with exactly that just recently). Or someone “tidies up” a Teams channel and half the project files go with...
