“Phishmas” – its not that punny

Whatever it takes to draw your attention to Cyber Security is worth it. Just because we take time off at Christmas doesn’t mean the hackers do. They have taken a lot of heart from the way we have all embraced home-delivery for our shopping and are doubling down...

Is your Fingerprint effective security?

Straight out of the movies We are all used to the idea of using our fingerprints to log into our cell phones and, for some of us, our laptops. We’ve been told fingerprints are secure, and effective for ‘biometric authentication’ In the movies, we see finger prints...

Have you been vished?

What is vishing? Vishing is scamming via phone calls,  effectively “phishing” by voice, hence the name,  Voice phishing – Wikipedia  Unfortunately, like many other cyber-attacks, incidents are on the rise. Because the damage is done over a phone...

Dodging dodgy websites

Not too long ago, (some) businesses tried to limit websites that people could visit during working hours. They blocked social sites and Trademe and so forth. The logic was that people should be working, not surfing the net. Luckily this seems to have faded – staff are...