by Andrew Hunt | Jun 27, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
A Personal Encounter with Cert NZ’s Assessment Tool. Have you recently received an email about cyber-security that set off your system’s alarms? It’s ironic isn’t it? That was my recent experience with an email from Cert NZ. Despite the initial...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 19, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security, Webinar Recording
Free Webinar Replay : Avoid the IT Travel Woes Business travel is fraught enough. It’s a nightmare to balance tight connections, and tough time zones with work colleagues that are accustomed to being able to link you into Teams meetings and urgent chats. How...
by Andrew Hunt | Jun 4, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
By now, regular readers know how important MFA is. Unbelievably, there are still some people who think this is for someone else, and they don’t need it themselves. Unfortunately, we are seeing some of these people fall victim to the very scams we’ve been...
by Andrew Hunt | May 21, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
“We’ve been hacked”. When you hear that the world stops. What does this mean? How bad is it? How can we manage that? That was the news earlier this week. It was quite confronting! Suddenly your careful plans for the day are thrown aside as your priorities have...
by Andrew Hunt | May 16, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
We’re reading about a flaw called ‘TunnelVision’ that could give hackers access to overcome virtually any VPN security solutions. It works by manipulating routing in DHCP, which is the mechanism networks use to hand out IP addresses to devices. DHCP has been around...
by Andrew Hunt | Apr 17, 2024 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Microsoft Exchange Online to retire Basic authentication We are going to face a big change coming in September 2025, Microsoft is going to be disabling SMTP Basic Authentication. This continues work they commenced a couple years ago to disable other protocols such as...
