New Zealand’s stock exchange may be under attack from Russian cyber gangs

The NZX was taken offline yesterday and today in response to cyber attacks – potentially from Russian gangs. What’s all this then? For the second time in two days, the New Zealand stock exchange NZX was taken offline late this morning in response to offshore cyber attacks. The exchange went down around 11.20am this morning … Read more

Trump wants the Mueller report to be the end of the story. In fact it’s just the start

If Donald Trump believes yesterday’s release of the long-awaited Mueller report is the end of his troubles, he’s in for a rude awakening, writes a former investigator into Reagan’s Iran-contra scandal. The release on April 18 of a redacted version of the Mueller report came after two years of allegations, speculation and insinuation – but … Read more

Why did Facebook go down? Here are our theories

For a desperate and difficult period of at least eight hours, Facebook and Instagram suffered a massive outage. They’ve so far kept a stony silence on the reasons. And wild uninformed speculation loves a vacuum. Here are 10 definitely true theories. 1. Facebook have confirmed on Twitter that they have not gone down because of … Read more