The ex-prostitute who dug dirt for Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater offered up personal information about a top businessman and other high-profile public figures.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last night argued that it was time he should be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has announced he will leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London soon.

We have been assured repeatedly by the Prime Minister that the Government Communications Security Bureau cannot spy on New Zealanders without a warrant.

The National Gallery in London is allowing visitors to take photographs of its collection for the first time after staff realised they were fighting a losing battle .

Labour leader David Cunliffe's student-friendly promises earned him a mostly warm reception on the campaign trail.

The internet credentials of some New Zealanders will almost certainly have fallen into the hands of a Russian cyber gang, an online security expert fears.

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

Aviation authorities are writing new rules on drones prompted by fears about safety in the skies, and privacy concerns.

The Immigration Minister has denied putting pressure on Immigration NZ to accept Kim Dotcom's residency application, but will not take questions on the subject.

Prime Minister John Key must explain the "political pressure" government officials were under to process Kim Dotcom's residency application, Labour says.

Companies in Japan are among the world's most vulnerable to cyber attacks, and threats against state entities have more than doubled since 2010 to one every 30 seconds.

A German intelligence "double agent" who allegedly sold hundreds of top secret documents to the Americans was caught by his own country's counter-espionage agents.

Editorial: Tortuous legal proceedings arising from the 2012 police raid on the Dotcom mansion have taken a disturbing turn for the authors of books.

A major courier company has blamed a bug in the system after customers were able to track and trace other people's parcels.

One of the problems with using passwords to prove identity is that passwords that are easy to remember are also easy for an attacker to guess, and vice versa.

Public bodies and private corporations including internet giant Google are flouting the public's right to access personal data being held on them.

Phone companies have revealed the extent of Govt agency spying on their networks, with more than 70 secret wire taps last year in New Zealand alone.

A major new poll on Australians' view of themselves and the world has revealed a nation nervous at the rise of China

Hundreds of millions of people across Europe will be forced to change the way they use the internet, a key Google adviser says.

Prime Minister John Key last night confirmed that an attempt to hack into a supercomputer at the nation's weather forecasters was from an IP address in China.

A Hawke's Bay nurse who admitted professional misconduct for having a sexual relationship with one of his patients has had his registration cancelled

John Key has accused John Campbell of falling for conspiracy theories in the wake of a Campbell Live show about the unlawful surveillance of Kim Dotcom.

An Auckland-wide surveillance network of CCTV cameras is being stitched together as the forerunner of a national system which could include facial recognition technology.

A registered nurse looked up the medical records of her former husband's new partner more than 40 times.

As Google digests the EU top court's ruling on 'the right to be forgotten', a paedophile has asked the internet giant to delete links about his conviction.