What can you expect if you get crypto-locked?

What can you expect if you get crypto-locked?

!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...
MFA is important, but it is no silver-bullet.

MFA is important, but it is no silver-bullet.

There are no silver bullets. No one can guarantee you won’t be hacked, but we can make it harder. We can reduce your cyber-risk by taking reasonable steps to make it harder to hack you. The key is to have layers of security, and to keep reviewing the technology in use...
Disaster at Kinetics

Disaster at Kinetics

Sometimes, it feels like there is only bad news.    All businesses face challenges with suppliers, our own people and even some of our customers.  As managers, we work hard to get ahead of issues and create systems to mitigate problems, but there’s always something. ...
MS OFFICE ZERO DAY ATTACK – MAY 31st

MS OFFICE ZERO DAY ATTACK – MAY 31st

One of the scariest news items to wake up to is that there is a ‘zero-day’ vulnerability in a common piece of software. That means that the hacking community has found an opportunity to hack a bit of software and there is no update yet – ‘zero’ days to apply a fix....