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Cyber Smart Week Continues We are partnering with Cert NZ this week to share some practical tips to help keep you and your data safe, by looking at some of the simple steps you can take to keep yourself safe online. Let’s challenge ourselves to think again about the assumptions we hold about our level of risk. Privacy Settings? Keep On Top Of Them! We love to share online – what we’re eating, our holiday snaps, where we are going. But is your personal info being over-shared? Why not check your privacy settings this #CyberSmartWeek. If you’re sharing lots of

Cyber Smart Week Continues During Cyber Smart Week we are partnering with Cert NZ to share some helpful tips as to ways you can review and strengthen your cyber security to stay ahead of cyber attackers and remain safe. Your personal information is highly valuable to attackers who are looking for easy ways to get information to use to their advantage, often to get money. Updates Are Easy, But Really Important Updated apps keep you, your data and your devices safe from attackers. Updates close the gaps in your system that attackers can sneak through. If you don’t apply updates,

Cyber Smart Week Continues We are partnering with Cert NZ this week to share some practical tips to help keep you and your data safe online. Many New Zealanders feel as though a cyber attack won’t happen to them.  Unfortunately, we are all potential targets for cyber attacks. However, making sure you’re more secure online is as easy as just doing a handful of things. Each step you take means your security is stronger than it was before. What’s 2FA when it’s at home then? Think of it as another layer of security you can wrap around your important accounts.

It’s Cyber Smart Week! We’ve teamed up with CERTNZ to bring you some simple steps to help you protect yourself on the internet. Think you’re secure online? Why not make sure of it? By just doing a few simple things you’ll be a whole lot safer online. Follow along this #CyberSmartWeek to find out how you can #makesureofit. First Up – Use a Password Manager Having unique passwords for all your accounts is important, and makes it much harder for attackers to get your online stuff. But it’s hard to remember them all. Password managers are an easy and secure

What’s New? Cert NZ has released its second quarterly report for 2019. The Cert NZ reports provide an interesting snapshot of recent cyber security incidents reported in New Zealand by both individuals and organisations. The latest report shows that cyber security incidents continue to increase quarter-on-quarter: 1,197 incident reports were made to CERT NZ in the second quarter of 2019, up 21% from Q1, and losses of $6.5 million were reported, the highest amount of losses ever reported. Notable Increases Reports of scams and fraud increased significantly once again, making up over a third of the total number of reports