KINETICS NEWS

Wow, some of the phishing hacks are getting smart! While we haven't seen this particular one ourselves yet, it's certainly good enough to fool most people if you do see it!  (so beware!) The clue is that its emailed to you - a message like this wouldn't come as an email, and certainly not from an IBM address - but wow, it's really convincing!  [...]

There is NEVER enough time in the day. Deadlines loom, interruptions are constant and your to-do list seems to grow, not shrink. Such are the joys of most workplaces in 2018/2019.  So here are three simple (free) things you can do to win back 15 minutes each day.  (actually mileage may vary – I actually think its closer to an hour a [...]

I've got as much (or as little) idea about 2019 as most readers. Inevitably there will be wins and losses, hits and misses, opportunities as well as headaches. But one thing is for sure - there will be changes! Kinetics is changing - we're finding more and more of our business is moving into people, and business advice.  Having IT work is one thing, [...]

In November alone we’ve seen :- A small manufacturing business in Onehunga was infected by ransomware (unfortunately just as we were moving them onto our KARE system – if only that had started a few weeks earlier, we could have prevented it!) – cost $5,000 US in Bitcoins. A reasonable sized kiwi construction firm had their invoices [...]

It was Labour Weekend when I saw my first Christmas Mince pies in the shops.  I don't go to the shops terribly often so they may have been available for a while.  It wouldn't surprise me to see Easter Eggs out as well! If you are having a Christmas shutdown or reducing to a skeleton staff,  the Christmas/New Year period is an excellent [...]

Clients will appreciate that Kinetics has kept it’s hourly rates and support costs flat for a number of years.  It's getting increasingly hard to do that under the pressure of increased salaries and input costs. We’ll continue to keep maintain pricing as long as we can, although we will need to make a small adjustment in the next few [...]

There’s nothing like receiving an email like the one below to scare the hell out of you! One of our clients received this beauty last month. As you can imagine, they were horrified. We’re pretty confident that, despite the accusation, that they hadn’t in fact visited any porn sites. Nevertheless, it made them understandably uncomfortable. So [...]

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 knows what they are doing when they give advice and so on.  It's natural to trust. With so many threats - [...]