Kannur: After causing discomfiture in CPM in Kerala, US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks have embarrassed the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) by suggesting divisions in the party over its approach towards extremist outfit National Development Front (NDF). The whistleblower site revealed that a cable allegedly sent to Washington by the US consulate in Chennai a few years back quoted IUML leader MK Muneer as having said that party leaders...
07:48 PM, Sep 03, 2011
London: WikiLeaks disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables on Friday, much if not all of it uncensored, a move that drew stinging condemnation from major newspapers which in the past collaborated with the anti-secrecy group's efforts to expose corruption and double-dealing. Many media outlets, previously had access to all or part of the uncensored tome. But WikiLeaks' decision to post the 251,287 cables on its website makes...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2011
London: Uncensored copies of WikiLeaks' massive tome of US State Department cables circulated freely on Thursday across the Internet, leaving a whole new batch of US sources vulnerable to embarrassment and potential retribution. The United States, meanwhile, denied ever cooperating with the anti-secrecy group, and blasted Wikileaks for allegedly threatening national security and the safety of confidential informants. WikiLeaks has blamed Britain's the Guardian newspaper for the breach, saying that...
10:47 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Facebook has announced that it is ready to pay people at least $ five hundred if they point out security glitches. ...
10:11 AM, Sep 01, 2011
London: The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of US embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organisation said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack." Efforts to view the WikiLeaks site and view links to cables were unsuccessful. The apparent cyberattack comes as the accelerated public disclosure of tens of thousands of previously unreleased State Department cables by the WikiLeaks organization has raised...
06:04 AM, Aug 31, 2011
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01:06 PM, Aug 26, 2011
Washington: The WikiLeaks organization said Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished US diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified. "We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today," said a message on WikiLeaks' Twitter feed. The Twitter page is believed to be controlled by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' controversial Australian-born founder and chief. The cables which the...
07:35 AM, Aug 26, 2011
Boston: The computer hacking community is gearing up for its own version of the annual Oscars, with two notorious "hacktivist" groups and industry heavyweight WikiLeaks among those vying for the top award. Sony Corp and EMC Corp's RSA Security division will also be recognised at next week's award ceremony, for the dubious distinction of having fallen victim to hackers. While the Pwnies may be tongue-in-cheek, the awards represent a serious...
07:30 AM, Jul 27, 2011
London: A group of computer hackers claims to have breached NATO security and accessed hordes of restricted material. The group called Anonymous says it would be "irresponsible" to publish most of the material it stole from NATO but that it is sitting on about 1 gigabyte of data. Anonymous posted a PDF file on Thursday on its Twitter page showing what appeared to be a document headed "NATO Restricted." Anonymous...
01:46 AM, Jul 22, 2011
London: WikiLeaks and the Icelandic IT company DataCell filed a formal complaint to the European Commission on Thursday, saying payment companies Visa Europe and MasterCard Inc violated EU antitrust laws by blocking donations. Visa Europe, which runs the largest card network in the European Union, and MasterCard blocked WikiLeaks from using its network to collect funds from donors in December 2010. The complaint, filed to the Directorate-General for Competition of...
11:09 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: Lawyers for Julian Assange on Wednesday focused their fight against the WikiLeaks chief's extradition to Sweden on technicalities - trying to punch holes through the warrant seeking his arrest. Assange is wanted in Sweden for questioning on allegations of rape and molestation, a prosecution he and his supporters claim is being manipulated to political ends - possibly with an eye toward sending him to the United States, where he's...
03:41 AM, Jul 14, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday asked the High Court to block his 'legally flawed' extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Lawyers for Assange challenged a ruling by District Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London that extradition should go ahead. Ben Emmerson, lawyer appearing for Assange, 40, told two judges the European arrest warrant on which he was being held was flawed because it...
05:54 PM, Jul 12, 2011
London: WikiLeaks has again begun accepting credit card donations, a company affiliated with the secret-spilling site said Thursday. Andreas Fink, the chief executive of Icelandic payment processor DataCell, told The Associated Press that Visa and MasterCard were again processing payments to WikiLeaks after a seven-month hiatus. Fink claimed the move as a tacit admission of guilt from the credit card companies, but it may well have been accidental. Visa Europe...
07:28 AM, Jul 08, 2011
London: The British government has been accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sparking an outrage among civil rights campaigners in the country. A video released by WikiLeaks claim that three cameras have been erected outside the entrance of his temporary home in Ellingham Hall, Norfolk, to keep track of people visiting him. "We suddenly noticed them appearing since we have been here. We believe they are monitoring everything...
08:15 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Washington: PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about a recent "Frontline" investigative news program on WikiLeaks. PBS confirmed Monday that the website had been hacked. The phony story had been taken down as of Monday morning. It had been posted on the site...
01:13 PM, May 31, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's powerful military chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is "manipulating" the government and parliament to prevent them from changing their policy on restive Pak-Afghan border, a top French official believes. According to a secret US diplomatic cable dated dated January 22, 2010 disclosed by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks and published in Dawn newspaper, head of the French government's inter-agency Afghanistan-Pakistan cell Jasmine Zernini told American officials that although General Kayani...
06:52 PM, May 29, 2011
Islamabad: France, not sure about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, has decided against supplying nuclear energy technology to it, according to a secret US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. According to a cable dated September 3, 2009 disclosed by whistle-blower website and published in Dawn newspaper, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Diplomatic Adviser Jean-David Levitte had told US diplomats that the French government was "not sure that the Pakistani nuclear...
06:30 PM, May 29, 2011
Islamabad: Anti-Americanism is rife at one of Pakistan's main military training facilities, with instructors infusing their lectures with suspicions and misperceptions about the US, according to a secret US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. The cable, sent in 2008 by then US Ambassador Anne Patterson, documents the experiences of American army officer Col Michael Schleicher while attending a course at the National Defence University, and expresses concern at the growing...
07:53 PM, May 25, 2011
New Delhi: As the DMK reels from the double shock of losing the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and MP Kanimozhi behind bars in the 2G scam, it seems that one top party leader had seen it coming. Top secret US Diplomatic cables accessed by WikiLeaks and published in 'The Hindu' newspaper claim that DMK MP and Karunanidhi's grandnephew Dayanidhi Maran had predicted the party's downfall as early as February 2008....
08:38 AM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: Slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had a premonition two months before her assassination and had appealed to the US to look into her security, but Washington chose to look the other way. This information came out of top secret US diplomatic cables that were accessed and released by WikiLeaks. The cables show that Bhutto wrote a letter to US Ambassador Anne Patterson after a terror strike on...
08:28 AM, May 22, 2011
