by Andrew Hunt | Sep 7, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
2008 was a long time ago. New Zealand was a different place. The IT maintenance needs of business were so much simpler! Locally, there was a change of government. Internationally, we were watching the start of the GFC with the fall of Lehman Bros bank. In the...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 4, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
What’s the Dark Web? The Dark Web, is often associated with a veil of notoriety, is a part of the internet intentionally hidden from traditional search engines. It requires specific software, such as Tor, to access, offering an anonymous platform where privacy...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 20, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Sometimes you need to use the BCC (Blind carbon copy) function in email! Last month, the email addresses of 147 gun owners were shared in an email. Whoever was sending the email put everyone in the ‘cc’ line. That meant their email addresses could be read...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 18, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Canon just sent out a warning. Wipe your old printers before selling/discarding them! It seems that printer technicians can access the memory and go into settings to uncover old Wifi passwords. Their advisory seems to suggest wiping the settings a couple of times...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 7, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
If 10,000 emails suddenly flooded your inbox, what would you do? Suddenly any real messages will be lost in the blitz of spam that’s overloading your screen. It is hard enough to delete all those messages, let alone filter out the genuine ones from the flood....
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 7, 2023 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
“GROUP-IB” are a Singapore-based cyber-security provider. They go deep into the cyber-crime sphere and it’s paid off. After 30+ attacks, and over $US30M stolen, “OPERA1ER” have been caught! They describe a bad actor who, from 2019, had...
