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From supporting Mayday calls to deploying drones, discover ten surprising facts about Kordia, New Zealand’s versatile government-owned tech pioneer.

Cybercriminals in Bromium's report were earning up to £1.4m a year and had a number of fascinating spending habits.

Security vendor Check Point believes that the age of Gen V cyber threats is now upon us, but organisations’ security defences are 10 years behind.

Affected websites that use outdated versions of WordPress, Joomla and Squarespace content management systems may be compromised.

In 2017, 2.6 billion data records were exposed, mainly due to human error, marking a staggering 580% increase since 2016, Gemalto reports.

It can take hackers less than an hour to steal data from an organisation, and most of the time their targets don’t even detect the attacks.

2018 is a pivotal year for privacy, says NZ firm Simpson Grierson, as the Privacy Bill progresses through Parliament, aiming to strengthen data protection.

​Today in Paris Thales opened its doors to international media to demonstrate with concrete examples how cybersecurity impacts businesses & citizens.

While most ransomware attacks currently infiltrate an organisation via email, IoT presents a new delivery system for both mass and targeted attacks.

Respondents in APAC put forth highest IT budget allocation to security, but overall executives allocate security less than 10% of their budget.

Winning the cyber arms race requires a consistent, agile, reputable stream of real-time cyber threat intelligence, explains SonicWall CEO Bill Conner.

New Zealand’s proposed Privacy Bill is going through the first round of debates in Parliament this week, with the support of all sitting MPs.

New Zealand hit by increased DDoS attacks due to 'Memcached' vulnerabilities, with some attacks 25 times larger than last year.

Digital disruption fuels the $500bn hacking industry, prompting Spark to expand its security offerings in New Zealand.

Verizon's comprehensive annual DBIR report has just been released with a number of shocking findings like ransomware incidents doubling in number.

Microsoft, Cisco, HSBC, Mastercard, AT&T, and JP Morgan Chase have pledged to advance cybersecurity across the globe.

Machine learning anomaly detections also rose by 480%, according to a Malwarebytes report on cybercrime tactics and techniques.

Australian Government welcomes US move to allow law enforcement agencies access to overseas data to combat crime.

​The NCSC recently issued a warning that the UK's critical infrastructure has been under cyberattack for at least a year.

Google bans cryptomining extensions from the Chrome Web Store, citing misuse by developers which impacts user performance and increases power consumption.