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Information security specialists claim that Julian Assange, the controversial cyber activist and founder of WikiLeaks platform, was constantly spied on for seven years, time he remained a political refugee at the embassy premises of Ecuador in London. According to reports, a security company called Undercover Global, based in Spain, was in charge of spying on […]
Cybersecurity experts reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) presented 17 new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for alleged violations against the U.S. Espionage Act due to the publication of classified information in the cyber activism platform. If case of being found guilty of all charges, Assange would face a sentence of up […]
According to cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) the government of Ecuador has faced about 40 million cyberattacks in retaliation for the decision to remove the political asylum to Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which lead to his arrest by the British authorities last week. After remaining as a […]
Julian Assange’s lawyers want to see if hacking is protected by the First Amendment. London’s Metropolitan Police arrested Assange on Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he’d been granted asylum for seven years. The US government wants to extradite Assange over hacking charges. But Assange’s lawyers have a bigger concern. His lawyers argued that the […]
Cyber forensics course specialists reported that a few days ago Julian Assange was expelled from the Embassy of Ecuador in London this morning, after the government of the South American country decided to revoke the asylum it provided to the founder of WikiLeaks. According to specialists of the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) this […]
The United States is now requesting the United Kingdom to extradite Julain Assange. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 47, has been arrested by Met Police from the embassy of Ecuador in London after seven years of refuge over a now dropped case of sexual assault. The arrest took place after Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno withdrew Assange’s asylum for “repeatedly […]
According to the authors of ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, the fugitive programmer Julian Assange will be expelled from the Embassy of Ecuador in London in the next few hours, as declared by ‘a high-level source’. Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been living in the embassy since the year 2012, after the Swedish authorities tried to interrogate […]
Arjen Kamphuis, partner of Julian Assange and author of “Information Security for Journalists”, is missing News agencies and ethical hacking experts all around the world report on the strange disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, partner of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. The news was confirmed by WikiLeaks last Sunday when they posted on Twitter: “Julian Assange’s partner and […]
While people around the world are celebrating Christmas, WikiLeaks founder Julain Assange had a pretty bad day. It all started this morning when Assange’s official Twitter account suddenly disappeared and magically appeared back after few hours. Then came a mysterious Tweet from the US Navy saying “Julian Assange” that was quickly deleted. Here a screenshot of the […]
In a recent development, Swedish lawmakers have dropped the investigations against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, which alleged him of rape back in August 2010. The decision will set free Assange after a 7-year legal stand-off. In a statement, the Prosecutors’ Office said that: “Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to discontinue the preliminary investigation regarding suspected […]
THREE AND A half years after he sought temporary asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London only to find himself a captive instead, a UN group has ruled that UK and Swedish authorities unlawfully detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in violation of their international human rights obligations. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said […]
Short Bytes: The UN is expected to announce its decision on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s release on Friday. The whistleblower website has tweeted that the UN’s WGAD body will announce the immediate release of Mr. Assange. It should be noted that the WikiLeaks founder is currently living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The United Nations is set […]
Wikileaks founder Julain Assange can be a free man this Friday — His fate depends on the decision from United Nation’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder could be a free man on Friday, February 5th if the United Nation’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) find Assange’s detention is unlawful. The breaking […]
Some recent data dump released by WikiLeaks on their website contains documents infected with malicious software that can easily infect anyone accessing them, according to the discovery made by an autonomous data researcher Josh Wieder. Wieder, apart from a researcher, is a system administrator who goes out of his way to inspect files and documents […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed many controversial documents in the past couple of weeks related to Germany and France. Recently he has asked for asylum in France in an open letter published in Le Monde and as expected, his request was denied. Assange has recently leaked documents that claimed that NSA has been actively […]
WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing site has published 276,394 new docs taken from Sony in Nov by an anonymous attacker. It adds to the 173,132 emails and 30K docs published in April 2015. The new docs were made accessible on Tuesday by the WikiLeaks. No open proclamation from the site accompanied the released, yet it asserted on […]
Expect exposure of confidential news pieces and government/corporate classified documents every now and then because WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group has re-launched its anonymous leak submission WikiLeaks, the famous whistle-blowing website, has opened its systems again for the public. The site has remained in headlines for long previously for anonymously submitting sensitive information. Around four and […]
Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has rolled its new homepage and it possesses a striking similarity with your favorite search engine Google. Yesterday, I visited the WikiLeaks website and amid this confusion, I checked the URL once again in my web browser to confirm it. ? So, why WikiLeaks did all this redesigning? Answer to this question is […]
A couple in Southern German Town has been banned from naming their child ‘’WikiLeaks’’, claiming that it may put baby’s life in danger. According to German website Passauer Neue Presse, the father of newly born baby Hajar Hamalaw wanted to name his son ‘’WikiLeaks’’ because he believes that the online whistleblowing platform has “changed the […]
Indian politicians have taken social media to its greatest height during the coming 16th Lok Sabha elections. A politician’s strength and mass following is reflected on his/her social media management. Not allowing letting go any chance of belittling their opponents appears to be the main agenda running on the social websites, which rather should be used […]
While addressing a large number of hackers and computer experts at Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged hackers from all over the world to join forces against National Security Agency (NSA)‘s PRISM surveillance program. Democracy Now reports that address also highlighted the difficulties faced by whistleblowers and how they can be tackled […]