Neowin News Feed for: Assange

UK MPs ask Biden to drop Assange charges during G7 trip

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:00:01 +0000

Members of Parliament in the UK have written to President Biden during his trip to the country asking him to drop the computer intrusion charges levelled against Julian Assange for his Wikileaks work. Read more...

Anonymous attacks websites in a bid to help Assange

Paul Ferson — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:07:44 +0000

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 20:06:51 +0000

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 08:18:21 +0000

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...

Assange loses U.K. extradition appeal

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 31 May 2012 02:08:28 +0000

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 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...

Operation Payback Day 2: Teen boy arrested, more attacks planned

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:05:52 +0000

It seems that Anonymous has suffered its first casualty in their cyber war on Wikileaks detractors. In the Netherlands, a 16 year old boy has been arrested for contributing to the Distributed Denial of Service... Read more...

Anonymous takes up the fight for WikiLeaks

Matthew Jones — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:32:14 +0000

Members of infamous hacker group Anonymous have reportedly taken up WikiLeaks' cause, launching denial of service attacks on a range of sites connected to founder Julian Assange. According to Ars Technica, Anonymous has attacked sites including... Read more...

Wikileaks Assange now in custody, will be held by UK authorities until Dec. 14th

Kelly Hodgkins — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:59:37 +0000

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange turned himself in to British authorities earlier today and is now being held without bail, according to a report from TechCrunch. The embattled frontman for whistle-blowers everywhere remains in jail while... Read more...