London police on Thursday arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of US authorities after Ecuador announced that it would be withdrawing his asylum. Assange spent more than six years inside Ecuador’s embassy in London in order to avoid police.
Julian Assange’s personal Twitter account, @JulianAssange, has vanished from the platform. Users searching for his account this morning are met with an error page, indicating that the Wikileaks founder’s account has either been user-deleted, or suspended or banned by Twitter itself. The official Wikileaks Twitter account, which in the past has appeared to be directly …
A notorious hacker collective gave Wikileaks a scare late Wednesday night, hijacking the organization’s front page and making it appear as though the site itself had been seriously compromised. The group, known as OurMine, openly mocked Wikileaks on its own homepage, claiming they “hacked” the site. However, the truth is a little more complicated.
Air-gapped computers are supposed to be ultra-secure PCs that can’t be infected with malware that spreads with the help of the internet. That’s because of these computers, often connected to sensitive machines, aren’t also connected to the internet. You’d think these systems would be impenetrable by remote attacks and would require a hacker to be …
US authorities are taking steps to formally file charges against and arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to a new report from CNN. For the past few years, Assange has been residing inside of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. That, however, hasn’t stopped Assange and Wikileaks from leaking a wide array of confidential documents from …
For the last month, Wikileaks has been dumping documents supposedly showing how the CIA goes about spying on electronic devices. The last round revealed the agency’s tools for infecting Mac and iPhone devices, so in the interests of keeping the fanboys happy, it’s only time that we learn how Windows PCs get hacked. The latest …
Earlier this month, Wikileaks dropped a massive amount of classified information purportedly from obtained from the CIA. The leak revealed how the government agency has repeatedly built new tools to breach everything from iPhones to smart TVs. Today, Wikileaks unveiled even more information from its “Vault 7” archive of CIA intel and this time it puts …
In the massive dump of nearly 9,000 purported internal CIA documents released earlier this week by Wikileaks, Apple was featured prominently. Many of the pages and pages of allegedly classified — and in some cases labeled “secret” or “top-secret” — documentation referenced the CIA’s ability to breach the security features of iOS, potentially giving intelligence …
On Wednesday, a security expert noted that hundreds of millions of Android users are at risk following recent revelations resulting from the cache of top-secret CIA documents exposed by WikiLeaks. The documents appear to detail various hacking tools used by the CIA to exploit vulnerabilities in smartphones, tablets, computers, wireless routers, cars and other devices, …
The massive treasure trove of purported internal CIA documents dropped by WikiLeaks yesterday is going to take a while to sift through, but if there’s one thing that is immediately clear it’s that the agency is absolutely obsessed with naming its hacking tools. Sure, every new exploit, workaround, and technique needs some kind of a …
