Station ordered to pay up after broadcasting woman who thought she was off air.

More and more people are posting snippets of their life online. They're capturing their day at the beach, the family dog's latest

Spark is critical of spying laws which leave it up to the company whether to volunteer information about its customers.

A massive privacy breach has struck the beleaguered Novopay school payroll with personal details of staff members sent to wrong schools.

The Edge radio station breached the privacy of a 15-year-old girl after an on-air mishap, the Broadcasting Standards' Authority has found.

COMMENT: Some of the most popular sites in the world went offline over the weekend. There's no excuse for poor security, Juha Saarinen writes.

Someone attacked a major part of the Internet's infrastructure.

Women's refuges, church agencies and other community groups will soon have to hand over their client details to the Government in

Police are investigating the discovery of a hidden camera at a Waikato dairy farm.

The number of Kiwi domains caught up in a global data hack of popular US online file hosting service Dropbox has been estimated at 120,000.

Ever wanted to secretly record your workmates to see what they say behind your back?

Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails.

Yahoo should face an investigation into whether it properly disclosed a massive data breach, Virginia Senator Mark Warner says.

Police investigating claims that Pippa Middleton's iCloud account was hacked have arrested a 35-year-old man in Northamptonshire, Scotland Yard has said.

MasterCard refuses to say how many people were affected by the error, which resulted in some customers being charged more than once for a single purchase.

COMMENT: Although it may be an improvement on earlier legislation governing spying the bill still contains many flaws.

COMMENT: Huge number of hacks mean your supposedly secure credentials are easy for anyone to find - and use.

Tim Cook discusses the right to privacy, something he considers a civil liberty and a core value of Apple as a company.

COMMENT: Online convenience comes with new and additional responsibilities to keep our personal information safe.

A new kind of army, of private cyberdefense contractors, is stepping up and gaining power in the wake of hacks such as the one on the Democratic National Committee.

COMMENT: Expect to see more politically motivated hacks and leaks that aim to influence politics in New Zealand, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: Why not take a leaf out of sales systems geeks' Vend's book?

Playboy model Dani Mathers has received massive backlash for posting a photo of a naked woman in the shower of a gym to Snapchat

A court has overturned a decision saying it must hand over messages of a suspected drug trafficker.

Pokemon Go has raised security concerns after the app accessed users' personal information.

As millions of people rush to join Pokémon Go, questions are being raised over how secure the app is.

Facebook plans to roll out secret conversations protected by end-to-end encryption to more users later this summer.

The internet has not evolved in the way it had been envisioned.

COMMENT: Businesses need to build on the progress that they've already made with respect to traditional threats.

A doctor's office disclosed a patient's childhood abuse when a letter was sent to the person's neighbour accidentally.