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Trump Offered To Pardon Wikileaks Founder If He Denied Russia Link To Hillary Emails, Alleges Lawyer
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 10:37pm | 436President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2017 if he denied Russian involvement in the email leaks that hurt rival candidate Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, Assange's lawyers have claimed. What Happened The lawyers were arguing the...
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Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested In London, Charged With Conspiracy To Commit Computer Hacking
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 7:19am | 534London police on Thursday arrested Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. With cooperation from Ecuador, where Assange had sought political refuge for the last seven years, Met Police took him into custody for failing to surrender to a warrant issued by the...
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Hoisted On His Own Petard: Group Hacks Julian Assange's WikiLeaks
Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 9:03am | 460WikiLeaks got a taste of its own medicine Thursday when a group of hackers known as OurMine briefly took over the notorious site run by Julian Assange. OurMine, based in Saudi Arabia, hacked DNS servers used by WikiLeaks so that anybody clicking on the site was redirected to a page created by...
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8 Of The Biggest Whistles Ever Blown On Wall Street
Monday, July 31, 2017 - 8:46am | 666Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Deep Throat. You know the names. Whether you consider them informants, patriots or glorified tattle-tales, whistleblowers have significantly impacted United States history. They‘ve alerted us to illegal or unethical activity in public and...
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Julian Assange's 'Sonic Screwdriver': Latest WikiLeaks Disclosure Says CIA Injected Spy Software Into Mac Chips
Friday, March 24, 2017 - 1:17pm | 655The latest and follow-on revelations made by WikiLeaks on the CIA cyberhacking scandal Thursday highlighted the techniques used by the CIA to gain persistence on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s Mac devices and demonstrates the use of EFI/UEFI and firmware malware. The Background For the uninitiated...
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Where In The World Are Julian Assange And Edward Snowden?
Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 8:01am | 801Wikileaks’ release of “Vault 7” documents detailing CIA cyberhacking operations raised a question in the minds of many: where are Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and what does the future hold for them? Australian-born Assange, 35 — who...
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Here's All Of Wikileaks' Bombshells Since It Was Founded 10 Years Ago
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 9:34am | 660The Hillary Clinton campaign is denying allegations that a hacker has gained access to Clinton Foundation documents, including individual and corporate donor lists and names of banks and other institutions that donated in exchange for political favors. Online persona Guccifer 2.0, which many...
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If You Thought The Government Had Sophisticated Spy Technology, Take A Second Look At Facebook
Friday, August 30, 2013 - 9:07am | 618Think, for a moment, about movies like “Enemy of the State” starring Will Smith or any one of the “NCIS” series. If you want something more real-world, think about all of the Edward Snowden leaks and the amount of government resources that have gone into silencing what was once a relatively low...
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WikiLeaks? Oh Yea!! I Remember Them
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 1:26pm | 251So much for WikiLeaks killing Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). According to an article from Reuters, some of the files that WikiLeaks had obtained on Bank of America files have been destroyed, according to a source close to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who last...
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Judget Says Julian Assange Should Go To Sweden
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 11:46am | 439A U.K. judge ruled that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, should be extradited to Sweden from Britain to face rape charges there. District Judge Howard Riddle denied Assange's plea that he wouldn't get a fair trial in Sweden. Assange, and his lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, had also claimed that...
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Why Is Bank Of America Not Good Enough For Two Titans? (BAC)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 9:16am | 205Both Warren Buffett and John Paulson sold large stakes in Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). The question remains why? There were rumors yesterday that the information Wikieleaks has on Bank of America may have influenced Buffett and Paulson's decisions to get rid of some of his shares in the country's...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 3:52pm | 302We can all stop worrying about the documents that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have on Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) because he hasn't a clue what they mean. According to Reuters, the documents that Assange said could "take down a bank or two" are probably going to be released without so much as a...
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Julian Assange Could Be Extradited Back To Sweden
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 9:06am | 140WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is going back to court today, to decide whether he should extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. Yesterday Geoffrey Robertson, the lawyer for Mr. Assange, said that if extradited, Assange would be subject to a "flagrant denial of justice."...
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Julian Assange Did What?
Monday, January 31, 2011 - 9:28am | 239Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has been accused of many things: rape, bringing down governments, treason, etc. Now he's being accused of cross dressing. In an effort to get away from U.S. intelligence services, Assange put on a blonde wig and disguised himself as a woman. In something...
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WikiLeaks: Targeting Bank of America Or Not? (BAC)
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 10:26am | 149In the rush to be the first to publish the latest breaking news, it seems that the media has gotten ahead of itself in reporting that Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is the “confirmed” target of WikiLeaks. According to Forbes, that is not at all the case. In reality, Julian Assange did not...