Security

The Government is struggling to recruit more than 100 security staff needed for the managed isolation and quarantine hotels.

Following a privacy breach in August last year when a security guard… Audio

Quarantine-free travel will resume with Western Australia and Northern Territory from midnight Friday, and New Zealanders from New South Wales and Queensland will be able to fly home despite those… Audio

Cyberattackers are getting smarter and the attacks more sophisticated. A North Island kindergarten association is among hundreds of groups hit at the weekend by a cybercriminal gang believed to be… Audio

Schools are offline and more than 100 North Island kindergartens are back to pen and paper due to a major international ransomware hit.

The GCSB is monitoring the situation and says people should be… Audio

Schools and businesses are discovering this morning whether they've been affected by a worldwide ransomware attack.

On Saturday, it struck Miami-based IT company Kaseya, and infiltrated companies… Audio

The country's District Health Boards are refusing to release reviews done of their cyber security systems weeks after Waikato DHB was struck by ransomware attackers.

They blanket refused Official… Audio

The full impact of the global ransomware attack on New Zealand organisations will become more apparent this morning.

Some service providers in New Zealand that use Kaseya VSA management software may… Audio

More information should emerge this morning as to how many New Zealand organisations are caught up in a global ransomware attack.

The attack on the IT management software provider Kaseya VSA has… Audio

Rough sleepers are being trespassed from a council park in Whangārei despite growing alarm about homelessness in Northland.

This week, RNZ revealed the homeless population in Whangārei - one of the… Audio

Highly sensitive information of patients and staff at Waikato District Health Board found its way onto the dark web yesterday.

It was published on a website entitled Vice Society and is reported to… Audio

New Zealand is at risk of giving China coercive power over its economy, according to an American general who held a top national security role with the US government.

General HR McMaster, who served… Audio

A financial expert is urging businesses to take the threat of cyber attacks seriously and do more to protect their firms.

The Fintech New Zealand general manager James Brown says cyber security… Audio

A substantial amount of sensitive Waikato DHB data has been released online.

The documents - which contain both staff and patient information - have been posted on the dark web following last month's… Audio

Universities are increasingly worried about a growing problem of young people gatecrashing lectures to watch and even photograph students.

Three university lecturers in Chinese politics and history… Audio

Some prisons are banning a newsletter that offers inmates advice on human rights and peaceful protest.

Corrections say they fear the pamphlets could pose a threat to the security of the prison.

But… Audio

The Chinese Embassy has hit back at claims spies are infiltrating New Zealand universities, calling the accusations groundless and hearsay.

University lecturers in Chinese politics and history have… Audio

The SIS has been using an agreement set up under outdated laws to use CCTV cameras in Auckland to carry out surveillance of people of interest.

It's been going for four years but the Minister in… Audio

University of Otago epidemiologist Michael Baker talks with us about Covid lockdowns across Australia the extended level two lockdown in Wellington. Audio

As Australia battles outbreaks of Covid across several different states, New South Wales is entering it's second full day of lockdown, The Head of the University of Melbourne's school of population… Audio

Millions of Australians in New South Wales will wake up to their second day of lockdown this morning. The two-week lockdown is a result in the rapid rise of infections from the Bondi cluster, which… Audio