Neowin News Feed for: Wikileaks

WikiLeaks says Aaron Swartz may have been a 'source'

Stephen Robinson — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:18:28 +0000

WikiLeaks tweeted yesterday that recently deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz assisted them, was in contact with Julian Assange and may have been a source for the organisation. Read more...

Anonymous breaks up with WikiLeaks over paywall

Tyler Holman — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:42:01 +0100

Former BFFs Anonymous and WikiLeaks are breaking up over an election themed paywall, and Anonymous says they'll no longer support WikiLeaks or Julian Assange because of their 'filthy and rotten' ways. Read more...

Anonymous attacks websites in a bid to help Assange

Paul Ferson — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:07:44 +0100

Anonymous have led their latest attack on government websites in an attempt to 'help' Julian Assange, with a particular focus upon ensuring specific targets are disrupted and stay down for some time. Read more...

WikiLeaks back in action after DDoS

Tyler Holman — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:06:51 +0100

WikiLeaks is back up and running again, in the aftermath of the DDoS attacks by the mysterious 'AntiLeaks' group that followed the release of 'TrapWire' survillance documents. Read more...

WikiLeaks hit by sustained DDoS over surveillance leaks

Tyler Holman — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:18:21 +0100

WikiLeaks has been facing a sustained DDoS attack for over 5 days, with a new patriotic hacker group taking credit, but there could be more to the story (it involves surveillance and the government). Read more...

Iceland fears arrest of MP over WikiLeaks

Paul Ferson — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:23:48 +0100

Due to their part in leaking video footage of American soldiers killing civilians in Baghdad, a prominent Icelandic MP has been advised to avoid going to the USA by her own government. Read more...

WikiLeaks begins to leak Syrian emails

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:09:41 +0100

WikiLeaks has begun to release emails form inside Syria's government ministries, with over two million emails waiting to go live across the world. The emails could shed new light on the uprising. Read more...

Assange loses U.K. extradition appeal

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:08:28 +0100

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has lost his appeal to avoid extradition to Sweden, and now has 14 days to make one final challenge to the ruling made by the U.K. Supreme Court. Read more...

WikiLeaks reveals Apple's struggle against Chinese counterfeits

Mike Brown — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:26:46 +0100

New documents released by Wikileaks earlier this week suggest Apple is struggling to counter against the Chinese counterfeit gadget trade. Local authorities are reportedly uncooperative with Apple. Read more...

16 people in US arrested following Anonymous raids

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:02:47 +0100

Following today's news on the FBI raiding locations of possible members of the Anonymous hacker group in New York State, 16 people in the US have now been arrested in connection to alleged hack attacks... Read more...

WikiLeaks to sue Visa and MasterCard for blocking donations

Denis Wong — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:12:35 +0100

It has been more than half a year since Visa and MasterCard faced DDoS attacks from Anonymous and WikiLeaks supporters for holding back financial donations to the whistleblower organization. In an announcement made earlier today,... Read more...

Assange calls Facebook an ‘appalling spy machine'

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:55:46 +0100

Controversial figure, Julian Assange said in an interview with Russian news site RT yesterday, that Facebook is an ‘appalling spy machine’. When asked what his thoughts of the role of social network sites in regards to... Read more...

Twitter account info to be released to Government in Wikileaks case

Piers Hausjell — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:18:32 +0000

The ongoing Wikileaks story has taken a new turn with the US Government being given permission to obtain the Twitter account information of Icelandic Birgitta Jonsdottir, Dutch Rop Gonggrijp and American Jacob Appelbaum, all three... Read more...

"WikiLeaks: The Movie" in pre-production

Ross Dundas — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:33:31 +0000

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but Julian Assange may be set for a big pay day if plans for a WikiLeaks movie get the green light. Pre-production is said to be already... Read more...

Five arrested over 'Anonymous' DDoS attacks

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:25:54 +0000

Five males have been taken into custody this morning, after their attacks against websites like PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and Amazon. The massive online group called 'Anonymous' was successful in disrupting service to the websites, all... Read more...

Bank of America buying up derogatory domain names in bulk

Kelly Hodgkins — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:31:57 +0000

Bank of America is buying up domain names with derogatory words like "sucks" and "blows" in an effort to protect its executives and board members from potential future attacks according to a report out of... Read more...

Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store

Matthew Jones — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:19:12 +0000

An unofficial iPhone and iPad app that provided access to WikiLeaks site content and follow the site's Twitter account has lasted less than four days in the App Store. TechCrunch reported that the WikiLeaks App by... Read more...

Dutch arrest 19 year old for DDOS attacks

Brandon Boyce — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:37:15 +0000

A few days ago, Neowin reported that Dutch authorities had arrested a 16 year old in connection to the distributed denial of service attacks that took place on behalf of Wikileaks as part of Operation:... Read more...

WikiLeaks rival to launch next week

Matthew Jones — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:27:38 +0000

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon find himself under attack from an unlikely source, with reports WikiLeaks ''defectors'' are planning to launch a rival whistleblower site as early as next week. Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports... Read more...

Anon in chaos as command structure fails [Updated]

Dave Legg — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:52:59 +0000

Following yesterday's attacks on various websites that have been seen by Anon to oppose WikiLeaks, including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal, Neowin has been monitoring the discussions occurring within the group. What has become apparent is... Read more...