A cybersecurity firm has uncovered strong proof of the tie between the group that hacked the Democratic National Committee and Russia's military intelligence arm.

A serial sexual predator of young boys has finished a three-year jail term but will now have to live in a residence on prison grounds

The massive Chinese online marketplace Alibaba has been named again on the US 'Notorious Markets' for allegedly selling fake goods.

The Commerce Commission has backed away from Spark's wholesale voice services and asks Simon Bridges revisit the issue in two years.

Students using a school laptop to put together a yearbook came across porn a teacher had stashed on the device.

Facebook risks a multimillion-euro fine for allegedly misleading EU merger watchdogs when it won approval to buy the WhatsApp messaging service.

The Porirua community is rallying around their local Santa after his sack was stolen just weeks before Christmas.

COMMENT: Looking back at what happened in 2016 makes me a bit dark about what 2017 bring. I blame the internet for that, Juha Saarinen writes.

Two attorneys who used legal loopholes to buy copyright for porn films, upload them to torrent websites, then sue downloaders, face criminal charges.

A candid photograph of the Queen and Prince Charles has been released to mark the end of the monarch's 90th birthday year.

China is to return a US Navy underwater drone after its military scooped up the submersible in the South China Sea.

Facebook has struggled for months over whether it should crack down on false stories and hoaxes being spread on its site.

At a time when online use will undoubtedly rise, parents are worried about the content their kids can access.

Lance Armstrong has arrived in New Zealand, touching down in Auckland early this morning.

Woman whose odd auction on TradeMe reaped $6500, will fly to Miami to have the artwork done - and we reveal what the tattoo will say.

Why does it take companies so long to tell us we've been hacked?

The President-elect has started a new media feud, this time with Vanity Fair magazine, which published a negative review about one of his restaurants.

Yahoo today announced a major hack which occurred in August 2013 affecting over a billion people.

Now that Gisborne is out of the unexpected chaos and back to the usual Christmas mayhem, locals are reflecting on how it all started. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: A new enterprising type of script kiddie has evolved that sets up cyber crime businesses online.

Waikato towns are on the list but businesses are sick of waiting for ultra-fast broadband. And some have even taken matters into their own hands. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: It is up to privacy scholars to come up with solutions that allow technological progress to take place, but not at the expense of our humanity.

Billing disputes are the main issue for utility customers but the number of those complaining about disconnections is growing.

Today's kids prefer to watch each other doing real life things rather than child actors playing television roles.

More than 100 people could be prosecuted after illegally streaming Saturday night's Parker fight over the internet.

Snapchat users are just one of the groups expected to be targeted next year, experts warn.

Lights lit up Brooke Hughes' face as the 18-year-old held up her mobile as she drove along a major road.

COMMENT: Like in politics, fake news can also be a problem in the world of science - proliferated by the net, repeated many times over.

A man who live streamed Joseph Parker's fights is planning to head overseas, and says Duco Events' attempts to limit the practice have been ineffective.

This riddle has divided online opinion, but is there a definitive answer to the question?