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Article | 15/12/2010 US gov't worker pleads guilty to accessing student files
A former employee of the U.S. Department of Education has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing confidential loan files of several hundred college stu...
Article | 14/12/2010 Operation Payback has new target: Corporate fax machines
The activists behind Operation Payback have come up with a new way to annoy corporations that have severed their ties with WikiLeaks: bombard them wit...
Article | 14/12/2010 Hackers could use leaked Gawker info to attack gov't workers
Passwords used by people employed by US federal, state and local governments were among those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the weekend, according...
Article | 11/12/2010 U.S. indictment of WikiLeaks' Assange reportedly 'imminent'
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon be indicted on spying charges under the U.S. Espionage Act, according to an ABC news report.
Article | 11/12/2010 Hacker group defends attacks on WikiLeaks foes
Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group of Internet vigilantes that has claimed responsibility for a series of Internet attacks against organizations pe...
Article | 13/12/2010 'Human cloud' of skilled workers growing in importance
Online labor by independent "cloud" workers probably represents nearly $US1 billion per year in earnings in the U.S., said Elance President and CEO Fa...
Article | 10/12/2010 Prosecuting WikiLeaks' Assange could be 'difficult' case
Any attempt to criminally prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the ongoing disclosure of classified State Department cables will pose huge c...
Article | 10/12/2010 Key WikiLeaks figures to launch new whistleblower site, says report
Several key figures behind WikiLeaks have left the project and are preparing to launch a rival whistleblower website called Openleaks, according to Sw...
Article | 10/12/2010 UN human rights head 'concerned' over pressure on WikiLeaks
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said she is concerned over reports of government pressure on Internet service providers and othe...
Article | 13/12/2010 ICANN delays TLD expansion approval
Internet regulatory body ICANN postponed approval of a mechanism to let groups apply for and manage new Internet domain extensions called generic Top ...
Article | 10/12/2010 Anonymous attack on Amazon.com appears to fail
This morning's planned distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Amazon.com by Anonymous, a hacker group that has launched similar attacks a...
Article | 10/12/2010 Group used 30,000-node botnet in MasterCard, PayPal attacks
PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationsh...
Article | 9/12/2010 MasterCard SecureCode service impacted in attacks over WikiLeaks
The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company's Web site offline today may have caused more problems tha...
Article | 9/12/2010 Feds charge two EMC employees with stealing more than $1M in equipment
Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged two men with stealing more than $1 million in high-tech equipment from EMC facilities in Massachusetts and North C...
Article | 9/12/2010 Anonymous takes down Visa.com in WikiLeaks protest
A loosely organized group of Internet hacktivists took down Visa's website Wednesday, after organizing a similar attack on MasterCard.