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Britain's Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham (Reuters/Crown Copyright file)

UK govt accused of spying on diplomats video

A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response.

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Iranians will vote Friday to find a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Google detects Iranian hackers

Google said Wednesday that it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of thousands of Iranians.

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US hackers stole $45m video

A worldwide gang of criminals stole a total of US$45 million [NZ$53.5m] in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database.

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A tweet from a hacked AP Twitter account sent sharemarket stocks plummeting this week (Photo: Reuters)

How a false tweet sank stocks

For a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world's mightiest stock market to tremble.

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Auckland University says it took 10 days to notify students of the hack because they wanted to be clear about who had been affected (File)

Auckland Uni hack undetected for months

It took the University of Auckland about three months to discover a computer server had been hacked.

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Hackers used the Associated Press' Twitter account to say Obama had been injured in a White House attack (Reuters file)

Hackers tweet 'news' of White House attack video

Hackers have compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press, sending out a false tweet about an attack at the White House.

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'Dual-use' technologies are those that have uses both good and bad

Hackers after 'dual-use' technology - expert video

NZ's remote location and good international standing are no defence against cyber hacking, according to an expert.

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The third annual Hacktivate pitted the best brains in IT against each other

Programmers battle it out at Hacktivate video

At the third annual Hacktivate event in Auckland, competitors battled it out for the honour of being named the champion hacker.

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Telecom emails hacked again

Hackers have hit Telecom customers again, with the company confirming spam emails have been sent out from some Yahoo! Xtra email addresses.

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An American cyber security firm Mandiant traced 90 percent of its identified interceptions to a neighbourhood near Shanghai (Photo: File)

Chinese cyber war intensifies video

The Government has allowed Chinese company Huawei to install broadband in New Zealand, despite growing numbers of cyber attacks.

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A real-time image of cyber attacks on New Zealand

NZ cyber attacks on the rise – GCSB video

Figures show the biggest cyber attack targets are private companies and their intellectual property.

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Paul Spain

NZ susceptible to cyber attacks - expert video

NZ businesses are particularly susceptible as they don't have the budgets to pay for much security, says an IT expert.

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Prime Minister John Key arrives in Boao, China

Key in China heeds NKorea threats video

The Prime Minister has warned New Zealand could end up at war with North Korea.

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Kim Jong-un in a doctored photo uploaded to Flickr

Anonymous hack North Korean sites

Hackers have broken into at least two of North Korea's government-run online sites, as tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula.

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More than 600 million people use Yahoo email worldwide

Telecom sticks with Yahoo email

Telecom has decided to keep Yahoo! on as its email provider, despite a high-profile hacking attack earlier this year.

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'Hackers bigger threat to US than terrorism' video

The United States Government has said it believes attacks by computer are now a bigger threat to Americans than terrorism.

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Beyonce and Jay-Z (Reuters)

Financial info on celebs, US officials leaked

US authorities have launched an investigation to track down a computer hacker who is alleged to have illegally obtained sensitive financial and personal information about a slew of celebrities, including Beyonce, Jay-Z, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

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China's Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng (Reuters)

China accuses US hackers of attacks

China's military says overseas hackers targeted two of its websites an average of 144,000 times per month.

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People walk past 'Unit 61398', a secretive Chinese military unit (Reuters)

Chinese hackers seen as more professional

Beijing hotly denies accusations of official involvement in massive cyberattacks against foreign targets.

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Computers were infected through software downloaded from a site for software developers (Reuters)

Apple's own Macs hit by virus

Apple says a small number of Mac computers at its offices were infected by malicious software.

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