On May 14th (2025), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (part of the Government Communications Security Bureau – GCSB) released the results of their annual survey which is conducted by The Research Agency (TRA). The annual survey analyses and tracks New Zealanders’ cyber security knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour. The results made for both good […]
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Have you heard of the Digital Personal Assistant, or do you use a Digital Personal Assistant on your device for your business and/or day to day life? Digital Personal Assistants can be useful for managing reminders, shopping lists or requesting information like checking the weather forecast, examples of these include Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri,
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The National Cyber Security Centre and CERTNZ (Computer Emergency Response Team) release a Quarterly Newsletter detailing statistics from reported incidents during that quarter. The latest Quarterly Newsletter covering 1 April to 30 June this year makes for Good and Bad reading. In the last reported quarter, $6.8m in Financial Loss was recorded. This was a
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$6.6 million reported in losses to Cyber Security Incidents in 1st Quarter (January to March) 2023 in New Zealand. Current losses reported to CERT NZ over the last 2 years (24 months – 8 Quarters) come to $41.1m. The CERT NZ Cyber Security Insights report for 1st Quarter 2024 makes for worse reading than the
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Many businesses run some form of OT (Operational Technology) / SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), especially if they are in the manufacturing or food industries. This could be something simple like controlling the speed of a conveyor belt or something much more complex like managing an entire water distribution plant or a waste management
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Overnight a number of warnings have gone out to the Security Community about a new CRITICAL security flaw in Android. The new flaw is named \”Dirty Stream\” and allows malicious apps to easily hijack legitimate apps. Currently there is very little protection from this flaw until Google releases a security patch and app developers release
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Printers (of all makes, models and types), are either loved or hated in generally equal measures with very little middle ground. However, printers are the forgotten hole in the vast majority of Cybersecurity plans as most people and/or organisations just think of them as printing stuff, scanning stuff or very old school – faxing stuff.
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Google has released 2x security updates for Google Chrome that patch highly-severity vulnerabilities. The first of these warnings impacts Chrome’s desktop users—on Windows and Mac. Google has just confirmed a security update that includes at least three high-severity fixes for vulnerabilities of the kind that have been exploited in the past. Two of the three vulnerabilities relate
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At SecureSphere, we have been asked what CVSS is and what the score of 0 – 10 means. So, we thought this might help answer some of those questions. CVSS stands for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System. It\’s a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way. The goal of
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A couple of days ago, the IMF (International Monetary Fund) released its latest semi-annual report and for the first time included cybersecurity risk. The report included some interesting and at the same time alarming statistics including:\”Cyber-related incidents have become much more frequent over the past two decades, and especially since 2020. In particular, the number of
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