Com Technology

21/08/2022

While scammers are becoming more creative so is the opposing force, with a dedicated team targeting those who target us.

We hope you can see how important it is to protect yourself and your family. The first 1,000 people to download Nomorobo Max using www.nomorobo.com/payback w...

23/05/2021

Monday morning and it's an IRD GST scam email to watch out for...

The need to treat any email with caution has been further heightened with a clever attempt to phish IRD credentials – presumably in an attempt to hijack your personal details. Titled: ‘GST Return is due’ is the first warning sign, given the date the email was sent. The use of legitimate artwor...

28/01/2021

Please update your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, TV and Windows iCloud software. An update issued by Apple on 26 January closes an exploit that has been used to disrupt users.

Issued on 26 January 2021 Apple have updated software supporting their products and services that closes a recently exposed and exploited vulnerability. Which is? The ability for a malicious application that can elevate privileges to gain higher level access and control critical files/functions. The...

03/12/2020

Did your Thunderbird email stop working on 1 December? You're probably using Eset security. The fix is pretty simple.

If you’re using Eset security on your PC and Thunderbird for an email client they will have stopped working on 1 December. The simple workaround was to disable Eset (webmail and email filtering). There is a permanent solution and it’s pretty simple. It was all to do with Eset replacing their sec...

26/11/2020

If you’re in business the Privacy Act 2020 affects you.

Shortly the 2020 version of the Privacy Act comes into effect (1 December). Its purpose is to catch-up a lot of the ground between its initial 1993 deployment and the current way of the world and bring New Zealand closer to the European standard General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

What do you need to do? There is a brief list and explanation in our latest blog post https://comtechnology.co.nz/have-you-done-enough-to-be-compliant-for-the-privacy-act-2020/

16/11/2020

A critical detail to the next step: certification. Bluffing/faking will only get you so far. So grateful to have the piece of paper backing our IoT alarm solution.

11/11/2020

It’s like Lego, for adults: Our alarm project, protecting our primary industry growers, is expanding a little more...

03/11/2020

Peeling back the layers of the Privacy Act 2020 we're preparing the ABC's of what you need to do to be compliant before 1 December.

02/11/2020

Don’t use Time Machine with your NAS/Network storage - What seems like a great idea will deliver great heartache when you need that Time Machine backup and the only or most up-to-date copy is in a network storage location.

What seems like a great idea will deliver great heartache when you need that Time Machine backup and the only or most up-to-date copy is in a network storage location. The heartache will start when you can’t access that network drive location, when you’re doing a system restore following a catas...

27/10/2020

Question of the day: Have you backed up the photos on your phone recently?

20/10/2020

Cybersecurity - we know we must do more to protect ourselves and data. How much is too much?

"The effect can be devastating."