What’s worse than having to pay Ransomware?

The answer : Having to pay it twice – (or even more). Your Cyber-Security is under more pressure than ever. According to Infosecurity magazine, “double” extortion ransomware victims are up a massive 935% – thats a ten-fold increase...

“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...

Does the new Chinese PIPL law apply to you?

If you do business in China, you need to know about the “PIPL” It’s the Chinese equivalent of the GDPR from the EU – and your responsibility to protect the data privacy of the Chinese. The law came into being relatively quickly and has already taken effect as at...

Security Training and Awareness offer

We are deploying some new tools for our KARE for Security clients. For a limited time we can share these with all our clients to give you and your colleagues some great e-security awareness training. The holiday season is targeted by scammers, they know that employees...

Zero-Trust Networking for real business?

Zero-trust sounds extreme Humans like to trust.  We trust everyday as we drive down the street that the people coming the other way will stay in their lane.  We trust that the restaurants we visit prepare our food properly and hygienically. We trust that our doctor...