The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising organisations to be increasingly vigilant, following an increase in denial of service (DoS) and brute forcing activities in relation to the situation in Iran. Denial of service is an attempt to make an online...
As we head into a new school year, we want to help you get your school’s unmanaged and personal devices ready for the N4L Secure Access network. Prerequisite: ensure a smooth transition, please note that school Google or Microsoft credentials are required for...
N4L has made a change to the GlobalProtect settings, which will affect users using the GlobalProtect VPN client to log in remotely. Previously, GlobalProtect was configured with an “always on” setting, which meant it automatically reconnected to the school firewall...
We’re aware of a global issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, which may result in degraded functionality or an inability to access certain features for some schools. Microsoft has confirmed that recovery efforts are underway and they are currently refining...
We're aware that Lumma Stealer malware has affected some New Zealanders’ online accounts, as reported by the NCSC. We are monitoring the situation and will contact you directly if we see anything suspicious. Find out more and their recommendations via the NCSC alert -...
We’d like to notify you of the upcoming Ruckus Cloudpath upgrade to version 6.0R3. It will be carried out in 5 stages: on 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 January (4pm to 11:30pm) and we’re contacting all affected schools that have completed Equipment Replacement directly with...
Updated 6 June 2025, 2pm: We’ve disabled Encrypted Client Hello on our network. This means that N4L’s Web Filtering should work as expected for all websites accessed on school networks, allowing or blocking websites according to each school’s Web Filtering settings....
The Education Service Desk, who manage enquiries for a range of applications used by schools and the wider education sector (such as Education Sector Logon and e-asTTle), has transferred from the Ministry of Education to N4L. There’s no disruption or change to the...
We’re aware of a vulnerability impacting Windows users. CVE-2024-4577 is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the PHP-CGI implementation of PHP on Windows. Successful exploitation enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and can lead to complete...
We’re aware of a phishing scam circulating via email in some schools. You can see an example of what this email looks like below. The phishing email is crafted to appear legitimate, being sent from legitimate email addresses of schools and other New Zealand...