London: Hackers have crashed the website of credit card firm MasterCard in apparent retaliation for its blocking of donations to the Wikileaks website, the BBC and other media reported on Wednesday. MasterCard was not immediately available to comment. The website did not appear to be available online. Web activists calling themselves Anonymous threatened earlier this week to launch denial of service attacks against businesses such as online payment firm PayPal...
07:01 PM, Dec 08, 2010
Melbourne: Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday blamed the United States, not the Australian founder of WikiLeaks, for the unauthorised leak of some 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables - some of which reflected badly on him. Rudd said those who originally leaked the documents were legally liable and that the leaks raised questions over the "adequacy" of US security over the cables. "Mr (Julian) Assange is not himself responsible...
05:51 PM, Dec 08, 2010
London: Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested in London on Tuesday on suspicion of rape in Sweden after remaining incommunicado for nearly a week, was sent to custody after being denied bail by a British court. 39-year-old Assange, an Australian citizen, was arrested by the Metropolitan police on the basis of an arrest warrant issued from Sweden relating to allegations of sexual assaults against him. Assange was...
10:30 PM, Dec 07, 2010
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant, London's Metropolitan Police said. Assange was arrested at a London police station at 9:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. ET) and will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrate's Court later in the day, police said. Swedish authorities had issued the warrant for Assange so they can talk to him about sex-crime allegations unrelated to WikiLeaks' recent...
03:58 PM, Dec 07, 2010
London: Whistleblower website WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may surrender to British Police on Tuesday. He is wanted on suspicion of rape, molestation and unlawful coercion in Sweden and is believed to be hiding in London. Scotland Yard was expected to serve the 39-year-old with a European Arrest Warrant in the cases earlier this year. Assange has angered Washington by spilling thousands of government secrets on the Internet. WikiLeaks is under...
10:03 AM, Dec 07, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who is in hiding blasted Hillary Clinton saying that "she should resign". ...
06:02 PM, Dec 02, 2010
London: With a worldwide Interpol Red corner notice out against him, the British police are claiming that they know the whereabouts of the WikiLeaks Chief Julian Assange, but can't apprehend him as the Swedish warrants are unenforceable. Assange's British based lawyer Mark Stephens says the country's authorities know where he is hiding, The Times reported. "The police know how to get hold of him, as does the Swedish prosecutor. Yet...
05:26 PM, Dec 02, 2010
New Delhi: The first of the 3,038 cables sent from the US embassy in New Delhi have now been uploaded - and the details are likely to cause some strain between India and the US. To begin with the US embassy seems to doubt India's Cold Start doctrine.Cold start is the quick military response strategy framed after 2002 Parliament attack. The cable from current ambassador Timothy Roemer points out India...
08:37 PM, Dec 01, 2010
New Delhi: Democratic countries are allegedly trying to shut down the whistleblower site WikiLeaks. But first, they have a legal tangle to solve. “Julian Assange is an Australian citizen. And he's based his servers in Sweden. Sweden supports freedom of speech and is not beholden to American law,” said www.thebiggeek.com Technology Writer Gagandeep Singh Sapra. Non-state hackers could, illegally, digitally attack the servers that contain the site's content. Or find...
08:53 AM, Dec 01, 2010
London: Interpol issued a "red notice" on Tuesday to assist in the arrest of Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, who is wanted in Sweden on suspicion of sexual crimes. Assange, a former computer hacker now at the centre of a global controversy after WikiLeaks released a trove of classified US diplomatic cables at the weekend, denies the Swedish allegations. The website of Interpol, the international police agency,...
08:00 AM, Dec 01, 2010
Washington: WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website at the centre of a storm over leaking 250,000 US diplomatic despatches, is a not-for-profit media organisation launched in 2007 with the professed goal of bringing "important news and information to the public". WikiLeaks, which claims to provide "an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists" through its electronic drop box, has won a number of awards, including the...
12:39 PM, Nov 29, 2010
New York: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is living a "haunted life" fearing arrest and has been on the run following the release of nearly 4 lakh secret US military documents related to Iraq war on his whistle-blowing website. 39-year-old Assange checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends, said 'The New York Times',...
11:13 AM, Oct 25, 2010
Stockholm: The founder of Wikileaks was denied a Swedish residency permit on Monday and said his whistleblowing website had been cut off by a company that handled many of its donations. Julian Assange blamed the financial cutoff on the US government, which denied any involvement. The US did tell reporters that it was bracing for the potential disclosure by Wikileaks of hundreds of thousands of secret Iraq war documents, and...
10:32 AM, Oct 19, 2010
Kuala Lumpur: Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Tuesday that whistle-blower website WikiLeaks' decision to publish entire contents of classified US military documents was irresponsible and could put innocent lives at risk. WikiLeaks drew worldwide publicity in late July when it posted a huge trove of secret US military documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US Defense Department has warned it could have blood on its hands for...
05:23 PM, Sep 28, 2010
Stockholm: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested a new lawyer to represent him in Sweden after a prosecutor decided to reopen a rape investigation against him. In a note to the Stockholm district court today a representative of Assange wrote he is not satisfied with prominent Swedish lawyer Leif Silbersky and wants Bjorn Hurtig instead. The note said Silbersky hasn't been sufficiently engaged enough in the case. A senior prosecutor...
12:54 PM, Sep 08, 2010
New York: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is under pressure from within the whistleblower organisation to step down from the helm of the website he created. Assange is currently under investigation in Sweden after two Swedish women separately accused him of rape and molestation. Last week, however, Sweden's chief prosecutor, Marianne Ny, said the decision to reopen the case was taken after a further review of the facts in a case...
04:00 PM, Sep 07, 2010
Stockholm: Sweden's Chief Prosecutor said on Wednesday she was reopening a preliminary investigation into rape charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny said in a statement the decision to reopen the probe was taken after further review of the case. Prosecutors last month dropped a probe into alleged rape, but carried on investigating charges of molestation. Assange denies any wrongdoing and said last month he had been...
04:53 PM, Sep 01, 2010
Stockholm: Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant that had alleged rape against the founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. Assange is "no longer wanted" and "is not suspected of rape," Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne said in a statement posted on the agency's official website Saturday. He is also no longer arrested in absentia, the statement said. The arrest warrant filed on Friday had...
09:24 PM, Aug 21, 2010
Stockholm: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose whistle-blowing website caused uproar last month with a leak of secret US military files on Afghanistan, has been charged in Sweden with rape and molestation, the National Prosecutor's Office said on Saturday. Assange was quoted by a Swedish daily as denying the allegations. Assange, an Australian, was in Sweden last week to discuss his work and defend his intent to publish further documents on...
05:01 PM, Aug 21, 2010
