Urgent Security Warning – Nitro PDF

Urgent Security Warning – Nitro PDF

CERT NZ have issued a warning about Nitro PDF.  It’s a common PDF tool that users log into to share documents.  Unfortunately, there are reports that hackers have breached their database We’re being told that “Nitro PDF, a PDF enterprise document creation and sharing...
Keeping our Security tools up to speed

Keeping our Security tools up to speed

Cyber-crime is estimated to earn criminals US$7 Trillion a year That sort of money buys cyber criminals a lot of resources.  It’s no surprise then that cybercrime has its own support industries. You don’t need to access the “Darknet” to purchase hacker...
Hacking the hackers (aka what goes around, comes around)

Hacking the hackers (aka what goes around, comes around)

Even hackers can be hacked!  Isn’t that serendipitous? There is a website, Cit0Day.in, which hosts 23,000 hacked databases.  Access is available at a cost, daily or monthly subscription. Hackers mine this data for passwords and other information.  They then use...
40 years of the IBM PC

40 years of the IBM PC

For our working generation, desktop computers have been a mainstay of our work life. Its a very different world to the generation before us.  In fact this month marks 40 years since IBM signed two young men from a new business called ‘Microsoft’ to write...