After coming under cyber-attack last Tuesday, WikiLeaks has managed to put its website back online. The whistle-blower was attacked after releasing about 134,000 US diplomatic cables last week. In a statement released on Monday, WikiLeaks said “For the first time, the diplomatic cables are available from every country that has US diplomatic representation. The decision [...]

Julian Assange probably feels that a lawsuit of some sort from the United States is coming – but he probably was not expecting this. A post on MSNBC’s Technolog shared WikiLeaks’ and its founder Julian Assange’s latest legal woe: a $150 M lawsuit filed by David Pitchford of Key West, Florida. An excerpt of his [...]

Another source of funds to WikiLeaks has been cut, as Bank of America announced on Friday that it was suspending payments to the whistle-blower site, according to a report on The New York Times. The Bank of America said the following in a statement: “Bank of America joins in the actions previously announced by MasterCard, [...]

The website of The New York Times, as well as that of more than 25 news organizations and blogs, is now off-limits to the personnel of the Air Force using work computers, according to a report on The New York Times. The Air Force has reportedly instituted a ban on the viewing of the websites [...]

Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, has been arrested in Britain. Assange, 39, surrendered at a police station in London, after much speculation as to his whereabouts. The charges leveled against him, however, are not related to the controversy stirred up by the series of sensitive documents released through WikiLeaks; he is facing [...]

In a previous post, we mentioned how supporters of WikiLeaks have begun to create mirror sites of WikiLeaks on their own servers. A feature on PC World now shares that as of Monday, 355 such sites are already up. WikiLeaks had posted the following message on its site: “Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack… In [...]