Julian Assange

Wikileaks temporarily shuts to fight ‘arbitrary & unlawful’ financial blockade

Wikileaks has announced the temporary suspension of all “publication” as a result of the financial blockade it faces from MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Western Union,…

Julian Assange fails in attempt to keep memoirs secret

Despite months of Julian Assange trying to keep it off bookstore shelves, the Wikileaks founder’s autobiography will hit stores on Thursday. Assange — known…

WikiLeaks’ mystery cable, US backlash and Guardian row

On the heels of its recent release of US diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has released an encrypted file after telling its followers on Twitter to…

Wikileaks faces fire after exposing sensitive US sources

Following the latest dump of highly classified diplomatic cables by Wikileaks, the United States and others have expressed concern over risks the release presents…

Anonymous hacked while announcing operation to ‘kill’ Facebook

“Hacktivist” group Anonymous has issued yet another threat of a cyber attack, this time against Facebook, reports tech blog Mashable. The loosely organised group…

Members of Anonymous arrested in US for Wikileaks revenge attacks

The US Department of Justice has announced the arrest of 16 people for cyber crimes. Of those 16, 14 have been connected to an…

Tech news round-up: From Google+ to Google-

We here at Memeburn know you our esteemed reader. Being the busy people you are we know that – try as you may, and…

Twitter-WikiLeaks case heading to court

Arguments will be heard on Tuesday by a federal judge on a court order directing Twitter to hand over information on the accounts of…

If the geeks ran Hollywood

Hollywood and Silicon Valley have always had an intense, complicated relationship. While the moguls who run the film studios watch jealously as all the…

WikiLeaks threatens massive leak if shut down

In an exclusive interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes”, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday detailed a plan to release a deluge of secret…

WikiLeaks the movie: Sex, lies and government

The world’s most dangerous man is about to have his life exposed in a cinematic fashion. The saga of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, the…

Wikileaks founder speaks out against Chinese internet censorship

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is on the offensive again, blasting China as the “technological enemy” of his whistleblower website due to its aggressive internet…

Memeburn’s tech winners of 2010: Apple, Microsoft, Zynga, WikiLeaks

At times the technology stories of 2010 read like the pages of gossip magazines. Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd’s sex scandal — slander or truth?…

WikiLeaks hacks: ‘More cybermob, than cyberwar’

Despite the overtones, the attacks on credit card and other websites by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are more political protest than real…

OpenLeaks in bid to rival WikiLeaks

Former WikiLeaks supporters at odds with founder Julian Assange will shortly launch OpenLeaks, a rival project aiming to get secret documents directly to media,…

WikiLeaks: A morality tale of the modern media

It is a captivating story, isn’t it? Julian Assange, the face of WikiLeaks, is now an enemy of some of the most powerful people…

WikiLeaks loses American domain name, moves to Switzerland

The noose is tightening on WikiLeaks, as it faces challenges on multiple fronts to stay operational. In the latest blow to the notorious whistleblower…

Amazon terminates hosting service for WikiLeaks

Amazon, after coming under fire for hosting WikiLeaks, booted it from its servers on Wednesday, prompting the whistleblower website to shift to Web-hosting services…

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