Hack stories

The Ashley Madison hack exposed the stark reality behind glossy marketing, revealing how a poorly safeguarded system endangered millions of private lives.

Australia's fragmented cybersecurity laws face overhaul as new National Cybersecurity Act aims to modernise protection against AI and quantum computing threats.

The most popular passwords of 2020 were easy-to-guess number combinations, such as 123456, the word password, qwerty, iloveyou, and other uncomplicated options.

The popular face-to-face video hosting service has been accused of hacking users' other accounts, a claim Houseparty disputes.

Women-focused hackathon #SheHacks, run by Girl Geek Academy, will take place statewide across Victoria, Australia from February to April.

After two teens managed to hack hundreds of thousands of printers around the world, KYOCERA Document Solutions has some tips for businesses.

The compromised servers stored personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to current and former NASA employees.

Games organisers have reportedly admitted that its servers had been attacked, forcing them to shut down the official website.

Experts say while Swisscom may be playing the huge breach down, the implications of the breach will be far and wide.

An advanced persistent threat is a set of stealthy and continuous computer hacking processes, designed to be evolving, polymorphic and dynamic...

An expanded partnership between Carbon Black and IBM Security aim to provide increased cyberattack visibility and accelerated incident response times.

Yahoo’s entire user base of more than three billion people were affected by Yahoo’s colossal data hack in 2013, despite initial reports.

The attack was never intended for consumers, but instead went after companies such as NEC, Samsung, Asus, Fujitsu, Singtel, Intel and VMware.

What happens when you put cold call scammers up against a seasoned programmer? You get sweet revenge, if the case of one security developer.

What do Twitter, GroupMeet and Facebook’s Like button all have in common? They all were invented at a hackathon.

Cloud storage provider Dropbox has reportedly been hacked by two software developers, who bypassed its two-factor authentication.

Discover how an HTML5 glitch, made public by Michael McKinnon of AVG, could fill your hard disk, revealed at http://www.filldisk.com/.

Despite a sophisticated attack last month, Facebook says no user data was compromised, attributing its success to a robust security response and culture.

Twitter blogged yesterday that an attack took place over 'just a few moments' before it was noticed by Twitter staff and shut it down.

Another exciting week has wrapped up here at NZET, Here's a summary of the news stories that were biggest in NZ this week.