Over the last month, we’d heard about this happening in the US and now it seems to be happening in NZ as well. Cyber insurers are working hard to mitigate their risk and that includes stepping up their testing of their clients. Right now, that appears to be more...
Free public WiFi can be tempting. Whether it is in cafe, an airport or a shopping centre, free Wi-Fi is very tempting. Who wouldn’t want faster data, without the cost. But, as with anything that is free, be very careful! It is very easy to become a victim of something...
!Right now, there’s a crypto-locked server in the lab in our Kinetics Auckland Office. It’s not from one of our clients, but a business that’s come to us, after the event, asking for help. We are busy rebuilding it and restoring the data and configuration to the...
Given the scale of cyber-attacks, we aren’t surprised to be hearing reports of insurers applying a “duty of care” test before agreeing to pay out. Despite sending chills up your spine, when you consider this, it makes sense as Insurers do the same thing to...
An actively exploited high severity “zero day” cyber-security exploit has been found in the Google Chrome web browser. With over 3 billion users it will take some time for the update roll out to everyone. Meanwhile, everyone who uses Chrome on their PC...
