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Wikileaks publishes 251,000 unredacted State Department documents

Sep 2, 2011
We've been talking about this story for a while. How Wikileaks founder Julian Assange entrusted someone with access to the group's stash of US...

WikiLeaks gets hacked. World Irony Association endorses action.

Aug 31, 2011
WikiLeaks is back up although running a bit slow now, this after being the target of a denial of service attack. The attack evidently is a result...

Wikileaks leaks

Aug 30, 2011
Julian Assange's organization had highly sensitive US State Department cables on its servers. These are cables that have not been released to the...

LulzSec says it will partner with news media in releasing emails

Jul 21, 2011
So far, the phone at Marketplace Tech Report has not rung with offers of new partnerships. Nonetheless, the once-retired now-back hacking...

LulzSec goes all Wikileaks on Arizona cops

Jun 24, 2011
LulzSec had warned the world a while ago that they would start going after political targets as part of a program called Operation Anti-Security....

Weekend hacking news

May 31, 2011
You went to a barbecue, maybe. Perhaps did some yard work. But hackers? They hack. There was an attack on the PBS site over the weekend that...

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SafeHouse could get you busted

May 6, 2011
The Wall Street Journal announced a new WikiLeaks-type site for sources to upload confidential documents. The site was built internally and...

Julian Assange says Facebook is a spy operation

May 3, 2011
The Wikileaks founder/icon gave an interview to Russia Today where he called the social network "the most appalling spy machine that has ever been...

China and the U.S. have dueling human rights reports

Apr 11, 2011
Sunday night, China released a report detailing human rights abuses in the U.S. This came just after the U.S. released a report on human rights...