Tony Grasso
Tech: Why MFA isn't always the solution
Cyber security expert Tony Grasso looks at why multi-factor authentication isn't always the solution to preventing a cyber attack Audio
Technology: How AI is being used to conduct and thwart cyber
Tech commentator Tony Grasso looks at how AI is being harnessed to monitor access patterns and identify anomalies that could signal a potential security breach. Audio
Tech: American water company in cyberattack, Kiwi hearing
Cybersecurity specialist Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about a cyber attack on American Water - one of the largest water and wastewater utilities in the US. Audio
Technology: Recent cyber attacks show even tech giants aren't
Tech commentator Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at a cyber attack on cloud provider Amazon Web Services, where hackers exploited exposed environment variable (.env) files. Audio
Cybersecurity: What are brute force attacks? Russia wants VPNs gone from Apple
Cybersecurity consultant Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about a rise in brute force attacks in New Zealand - what are they and how can they be successfully headed off? Audio
Tech: Ticketmaster hack update, Apple system aims to keep AI data safe in the cloud
Cyber security expert Tony Grasso looks at the latest on the Ticketmaster data breach which has affected other customers of cloud storage provider Snowflake. Audio
Tech: Mediaworks hack, cyber-crime rescue, recycled malware
Tony Grasso is Principal Consultant at cybersecurity firm TitaniumDefence. He worked at GCHQ in the UK and is a former Intelligence Officer in New Zealand. Audio
Technology: How law enforcement took down the Lockbit ransomware gang
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso looks at how Lockbit, the world's largest ransomware gang, was taken down by law authorities. Audio
Tech: Sellafield hack, Russian attacks, scams numbers up
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about who was likely behind the hacking of Sellafield, Europe's largest nuclear site. New Minister for the GCSB Judith Collins has spoken out… Audio
Tech: LastPass breach, Five Eyes' spy warning, stolen DNA data
Technology commentator Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about popular password manager LastPass and how it's been breached five times - with the latest netting the release of credentials for users'… Audio
Tech: Las Vegas casinos hit by cyber attack, new bank scam doing the rounds
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the huge ransomware attack that's affected casinos in Las Vegas. MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment have both fallen… Audio
Tech: AI vs account security, firearms breach, Microsoft hack
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Susie to talk about how the security questions we rely on to our secure our accounts ..."what's your mum's maiden name?", "your first pet's name" could be… Audio
Tech: Ransoms drop, DDoS attacks hit gaming industry
Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the big drop in earnings cyber-crime gangs are experiencing as victims refuse to pay ransomware demands. Audio
Tech: Spanish cyber-crime arrests
Cyber security expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about Spanish police taking down a massive crime ring that had defrauded more than 300,000 people. Tony Grasso is Principal Consultant at… Audio
New technology with Tony Grasso
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso talks to Susie Ferguson about a group of Chinese scientists who recently quietly posted a paper purporting to show how a combination of classical and quantum… Audio
Cyber attack hits agencies, Apple kills plans to scan phones
Cyber security expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at how government agencies have been affected by a cyber attack on an external company, Mercury IT. He says it's likely the company will be an… Audio
Technology: Demise of Symantec, China hardware concerns, Blackbyte ransomware
Tech correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at what's happened to Symantec - it was one of the first IT security companies to develop commercial anti-virus software, but is anti-virus "dead"… Audio
Tech: Taiwan cyber attacks, NHS suffers DDoS, 100m affected by worker's data theft
Tech commentator Tony Grasso joins Susie to talk about the cyber attacks on Taiwan amid rising tensions with China, a DDoS attack on Britain's National Health Service. He'll also look at why insider… Audio
Tech: Override Panda's new phishing attack, Cozy Bear targets diplomats
Cyber-security expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the new spear-phishing email doing the rounds from Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Override Panda. He'll also look at how Russian… Audio
Tech: US eye on Russian cyber firm, teen hackers arrested
Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at why Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has been added to the national security threat list by the FCC. He'll also talk about a… Audio