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CERT NZ provides you with up-to-date, actionable advice on current threats and vulnerabilities, as well as guidance on mitigation and cyber security best practice.

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Advisories

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Our advisories highlight current cyber security threats and vulnerabilities in New Zealand, and provide guidance on how to mitigate their impact.

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Banking malware targeting business customers of New Zealand banks

A phishing campaign containing malware is targeting business banking customers of some New Zealand banks. The phishing emails are branded to look like invoice notifications from accounting software systems.

VPNFilter malware

S/MIME and OpenPGP email client vulnerability

Storing and securing your logs in a central place makes log analysis and alerting easier

Critical controls

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Every few weeks we'll publish more information about a critical control. For each control a page will summarise the intent and success measures for business owners and a separate page will provide implementation advice for practitioners.

10 critical controls for 2018

This is a summary of the ten controls that would mitigate the majority of information security incidents that CERT NZ has analysed so far.

1. Patching

Keeping your software up-to-date is one of the most simple and effective steps to take, to ensure your environment stays secure.