“Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to discontinue the preliminary investigation regarding suspected rape concerning Julian Assange,” the Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Deutsche Welle. Assange has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012 after taking refuge ...
Read More »US to seek arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
The Justice Department investigation of Assange and WikiLeaks dates to at least 2010, when the site first gained wide attention for posting thousands of files stolen by the former US Army intelligence analyst now known as Chelsea Manning, according to ...
Read More »Latest WikiLeaks release shows how the CIA uses computer code to hide the origins of its hacking attacks and ‘disguise them as Russian or Chinese activity’
The 676 files released today are part of WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 tranche of files and they claim to give an insight into the CIA’s Marble software, which can forensically disguise viruses, trojans and hacking attacks, Joinfo.com reports with reference to ...
Read More »F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties, Comey Confirms
The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, took the extraordinary step on Monday of announcing that the agency is investigating whether members of President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The New ...
Read More »Apple to ‘rapidly address’ any security holes as companies respond to CIA leak
Apple has promised to “rapidly address” any security holes used by the CIA to hack iPhones, following the release of a huge tranche of documents covering the intelligence agency’s stockpile of software vulnerabilities, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Guardian. ...
Read More »WikiLeaks Just Dumped a Ton of Alleged CIA Hacking Documents
The information therein, WikiLeaks claims, reveals covert CIA hacking tools that can take over iPhones, Android phones, TVs, and pretty much any type of computer, according to Gizmodo. The Tuesday morning release, codenamed Vault 7, is apparently part of a ...
Read More »Obama frees Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning
The 29-year-old transgender US Army private, born Bradley Manning, will be freed on 17 May instead of her scheduled 2045 release, the BBC reports. She was sentenced to 35 years in 2013 for her role in leaking diplomatic cables to ...
Read More »WikiLeaks’ Assange signals release of documents before U.S. election
Assange said the documents would be released before the end of the year, starting with an initial batch in the coming week, Reuters reports. He criticized Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, for demonizing the group’s work after a spate of ...
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