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 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 10, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
A couple of AI stories over the last few weeks made me stop and re-read them. Neither involved criminals. Both involved AI companies testing their own models, and both came down to an agent trying a bit too hard to get its job done. An agent in the Medicare portal In...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 29, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
If your email security has started tagging DocuSign emails as “medium risk”, don’t panic. You’re not alone, it’s happening to most of us. DocuSign hasn’t suddenly become unsafe. What’s changed is how criminals use it. Trusted...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 23, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released its latest research on how New Zealand businesses are coping with cyber risk, and one group stands out: medium-sized businesses. Awareness is going up. Unfortunately, so is the number of businesses that feel...
