KINETICS NEWS

Reduce email clutter…
06 Apr 2017 Comments off
Microsoft have introduced ‘Teams’ into Office365.  It is a new application that’s included in most commercial Office365 plans. The concept behind Teams is a chat-based workspace, the idea being that we have collaborative conversations.  It’s about having a conversation (rather than an avalanche of emails) that flows with different people [...]

Six tips to stop your network being hacked
06 Apr 2017 Comments off
CryptoLocker changed the threat landscape by monetising what had essentially been an amateur pursuit.  Professionals are now making serious money by hacking into businesses, encrypting their data their and holding them to ransom.  This is happening right now, right here in New Zealand. There are a lot measures that can be taken to reduce the risk [...]

Password expiry SOLVED
02 Apr 2017 Comments off
These days it seems everyone has multiple devices.  Desktops, tablet’s, smart phones, iPad and Surfaces.   With more choices of what we work on, we have more choices about how, where and when we work. But not all these devices have the same abilities, which results in behavioral inconsistencies.  As we become more mobile, it's becoming more [...]

Kinetics are Triple Finalists in the 2017 Microsoft Partner Awards
19 Mar 2017 Comments off
Kinetics Group is proud to be selected as a finalist in three categories for the Microsoft 2017 Partner Awards - 'Small & Midmarket Cloud Solutions', 'Cloud Productivity' and 'Learning'. There are several things that are remarkable about this. In the 'Cloud Productivity' category, we are finalists alongside Datacom and Provoke - two of the [...]

This week’s social engineering hack
12 Feb 2017 Comments off
The latest attempt to trick you into opening an infected document.  Includes swearing and then a new enticing warning message. Today I received this message (I have edited out the swear word.) yea , we finally did it. here is the bank confirmation: bofa_card_statement_bill.doc now fXXk off and try not to contact me again or else. On Feb [...]

Office365 Updates
18 Jan 2017 Comments off
There's nothing like seeing the computer display hall at MOTAT to be reminded of how much things change and how quickly.  One of the sayings I heard late last year was that never in history has business has never changed faster than  now, and yet it will never change slower than it does now.  Wow! So it's great to know our tools are keeping up with [...]

Cloud could be a waste of time…
16 Dec 2016 Comments off
Is the Cloud helping you drive your bottom line - Are you doing the same stuff the same way or using the cloud to do new things better? The cloud is game changer, but to really win with the cloud you do have to change your game. For a long time, the cloud was sold as a means of turning capital costs into operating costs – a finance option. The [...]

Cryptostopper!?
16 Sep 2016 Comments off
That’s right, a CryptoLocker Stopper. It appears so, at least for some forms of the beast. This amazing bit of technology has been around for a while. But at price point that was more Fortune 500 than SME. Now WatchGuard (they’re a firewall manufacture) has made APT Blocker (Advanced Persistent Threat Blocker) technology affordable. As [...]

Change is in the air!
18 Jul 2016 Comments off
Change is in the air. It's unmissable, it's everywhere. This year's Microsoft Conference in Toronto just served to highlight that theme more than ever. It was larger, with more attendees and more noise. But behind the numbers, there is a significant shift in the way IT serves business. Technology can streamline your business, and it can grow your [...]

Update : Spearphishing is now much more aggressive
21 Jun 2016 Comments off
By now, most of our followers will know what spearphishing is - we've posted before about it Most of our client's have now experienced an attack, but luckily they are too savvy to be caught (so far)!! We just heard about a spearphishing attack on one of our clients where, having sent the fake email (somehow they even knew the client's CEO [...]

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