WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told journalists on Monday that the organization would be forced to end its practice of publishing secret cables and documents – at least temporarily – in order to raise enough funds to survive. According to a Reuters report on Monday, Julian Assange blamed the organizations financial hardships on what he calls [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. government has obtained a “controversial type of secret court order” that required Google Inc. and internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to release information from the email accounts of a WikiLeaks supporter. The court order was obtained under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The Act, which was enacted in [...]

Have you ever wanted to own one of those Top Secret cables that Wikileaks publishes? Well, now you can. It seems that the whistle blowing organization has fallen upon hard times and is selling “memorabilia items” on eBay. According to AFP, some of the items for sale are: • A copy of a cable about [...]

On September 20th, Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news network, had its top news director step down. According to WikiLeaks, the news director, Wadah Khanfar, had modified the network’s coverage of the Iraq war in response to pressure from the United States. It seems that WikiLeaks came into possession of a series of documents that stated [...]

On Thursday, September 1st, WikiLeaks published a public statement accusing the UK newspaper The Guardian of negligence in its handling of secret and unredacted US diplomatic cables stored at a Wikileaks server. Ironically, WikiLeaks is an organization that has been devoted to the releasing of classified or secret information from governments and private companies from [...]

Turns out Wikileaks founder Julian Assange couldn’t make good on his promise to release secret information that could supposedly take down a Swiss bank and create a PR nightmare for Bank of America. Assange made the claim in 2009 and last year, saying he had documents that would reveal an “ecosystem of corruption,” according to [...]

Top Obama administration officials are worried the Syrian government will impose a harsh crackdown on an opposition group that secretly collected millions in U.S. aid in recent years. According to the latest round of secret documents released by WikiLeaks, the United States has funneled about $6 million to the London-based Movement for Justice and Development [...]

Bradley Manning, a military trained intelligence analyst, allegedly downloaded classified US government documents and videos to his laptop and passed them on to Wikileaks in November of 2009. This has turned Manning, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange into both heroes and outlaws in an international public arena. Manning was arrested on May 26, 2010 in [...]

WikiLeaks has come under attack from all sides by international governments on numerous counts of security breaching, distributing classified documents and even sex allegations against it’s founder, Julian Assange. The US government now stands publicly accused of twisting PayPal’s arm to block the accounts of anyone who has donated to the non-profit media organization. Those [...]

Recently, a group of Internet vigilante hackers calling themselves Anonymous hacked a US security firm that was investigating them. This hack is the most recent shot fired between the two groups in their ongoing cyber battle. The US firm, HBGary Federal, provides various classified cybersecurity services to US government agencies and fortune 500 companies. One [...]