Microsoft will issue a security patch for Internet Explorer after it was revealed that a vulnerability in the web browser was to blame for last week's hacks on Gmail accounts.

Every year most of the security vendors' forecasts predict dramatic spikes in volumes of spam, phishing, botnet activity, and malware. Usually, they're right.

NZ divisions of some of the world's largest IT companies took big hits last year, a review of accounts filed with the Companies Office shows.

Waikato DHB is re-starting computers in key locations after staff worked all-night battling a computer virus which crippled the organisation

Waikato DHB is trying to keep as many people out of hospitals as possible while it tries to fix damage caused by the Conficka computer worm.