Dagens Nyhete (DN.se) a Swedish newspaper reports some important persons from Wikileaks are about to launch a new rival whistleblower website called “Openleaks” on Monday morning. Meanwhile the 39 year-old founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange is behind bars in UK pending accusation of sexual molestation and rape charges in Sweden. He had turned himself in [...]
Companies that do business on Amazon are the targets of a new holiday scam this year. A software program is generating receipts for phantom orders in an attempt to claim refunds on goods that were never sold. These phoney receipts look identical to the genuine articles down to details such as the “Total Before Tax” [...]
The diligent attempts to maintain confidentiality in government matters are a goal, standard and requirement of today’s military. Despite this, thousands of classified documents were leaked from the Pentagon and the fear arose that highly confidential documents and information would be inappropriately accessed and, consequently abused. Wikileaks are therefore considered a serious threat to the [...]
The advertising industry is complaining that the new Internet Explorer browser will make it more difficult for them to support free media, such as news and entertainment. Microsoft’s decision to add a tracking protection mechanism to their upgrade for Internet Explorer, IE 9, follows a federal regulatory proposal to introduce a ‘do-not-track’ option to prevent [...]
PayPal announced that intervention from the US State Department has convinced them to terminate payment facilities to Wikileaks. PayPal’s VP, Osama Bedier, said that as of December 4 WikiLeaks account had been frozen. Bedier said that PayPal had been informed that WikiLeaks is engaged illegal operations. The company was informed by U.S. government representatives. On [...]
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has decided to announce that he intends to fight an extradition order to Sweden. Assange is charged with two counts of ‘sex by surprise’. These charges relate to consensual encounters that Assange took part in that at some point became non-consensual. They refer to whether Assange used a condom and [...]
Some of the most-visited sites on the Internet are looking at their visitors’ browser history without their consent. Researchers at University of California found that nearly five hundred websites are using a program that allows them to engage in “history sniffing”. A method that combines Javascript and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) programs enables the sites [...]
Technology used to profile Internet users before targeting them with specific advertising is making a comeback after privacy campaigners in the US and Britain successfully saw it off two years ago. ‘Deep packet inspection’ analyses data traveling on the Internet and provides a richer picture of online usage than cookies and other techniques used. Two [...]
The Chinese are playing coy and US officials are steamed as both sides argue over the re-routing and hijacking of nearly 15% of all internet traffic by a Chinese telecommunications firm. According to the reports, the firm grabbed the information that was being streamed across the internet and fed it through their home servers. Now [...]
Developers and tech experts are scratching their heads today asking why Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg would say that the new Facebook email is not email at all. He calls it social messaging and a variety of other strange sounding names. But for all intents and purposes it is email and it is not doing all that [...]
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