3 Sep 2020

Cyberattacks: Hopes end of week will be clear

From Morning Report, 7:51 am on 3 September 2020

The New Zealand stock exchange and other institutions will be hoping to finish the week with no further disruption from cyberattacks.

A spate of distributed denial of service attacks have affected NZX and MetService and attempts were made on both RNZ and Stuff's news websites.

The Government Communications Security Bureau is advising government departments and others to be vigilant.

Daniel Ayers is an IT security consultant.