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Julian Assange, WikiLeaks cofounder, was arrested in London after Ecuador revoked his asylum. Assange now faces extradition to the US.

Two US high school students were arrested for hiring hackers to disable their school's WiFi, disrupting tests and lessons reliant on internet access.

Cloud data protection requirements continue to drive encryption use, with encryption across both public and private cloud use cases growing over 2018 levels.

Callaghan Innovation has awarded Auckland-based SaaS business Crossware up to $5m per year in grant funding to support its global expansion.

The biggest challenge, according to the research, is finding out what a drone's purpose is in a non-restricted area.

Europol's international operation against dark web crime sees 61 arrests, seizes EUR €6.2 million, and closes 50 accounts; drugs and firearms also confiscated.

FBI crackdown on 'booters' reduces global DDoS attacks by 11%, but booter websites may make a comeback, says Nexusguard.

Aerohive is the first cloud-managed networking vendor recognized by a global standard for commitment to information security management systems.

Global security spending is set to hit USD $103.1 billion in 2019, up 9.4% from 2017, driven by industries like banking and government, says IDC.

Intel and the Department of Energy are building potentially the world's first exascale supercomputer, capable of a quintillion calculations per second.

New Zealand clinicians form the Clinical Informatics Leadership Network to tackle IT issues in healthcare, fostering clinical leadership and sharing expertise.

Proofpoint found that the education sector was the most targeted of both brute-force and sophisticated phishing attempts.

40% of local consumers think the promotional offers they receive just aren't the right ones for them. That figure is higher than the global average of 33%.

The latest data from OECD's broadband portal has found that New Zealand is punching well above its weight in high-speed fibre.

Many firms overlook securing privileged credentials, despite 74% of breaches involving compromised access, revealing a worrying immaturity in PAM practices.

The bustling public cloud services and infrastructure markets in aggregate are set to undertake substantial growth this year.

The original HoloLens was released in 2016 but since then, mixed reality has come a long way, according to Microsoft's Julia White.

The company has announced it has purchased an additional 8 acres of land in Santa Clara, with plans to expand its presence.

Service providers account for a growing share of ICT spending, led by a surge of cloud infrastructure spending, according to IDC.

Norwegian cybersecurity firm Visma, aided by Recorded Future and Rapid7, foils alleged cyberespionage attack by Chinese state-sponsored group APT10.