WikiLeaks Activists and Twitter Data: Hearing set about dispute

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If you are a regular reader here at OSM you’ll have noticed that we’ve been closely following the WikiLeaks saga including its founder Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to Sweden and also about WikiLeaks supporters hacking major company websites. … [Read more...]

‘Anonymous’ Hackers Strike Again: This time Egyptian government

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Recently we’ve been giving you lots of news about the protests in Egypt and our most recent posts after the Internet was blocked there, were about how people were finding ways around the ban and lack of access to social networking sites, and then yesterday we told how the Internet had been at last … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks and Twitter: Four supporters’ accounts subpoenaed by US

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We’ve been following the WikiLeaks saga for many months and of course covered the most recent round of leaks and the story of its founder Julian Assange’s fight not to be extradited to face questioning in Sweden over sex crime allegations. We also told readers about how organizations such as … [Read more...]

Apple App Store Put A Stop To “WikiLeaks” Software

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For anyone who may have been watching the news over the last 2 or so weeks, will be aware of the controversial WikiLeaks scandal, in which illegal leaked classified information, such as private and top secret memos and documents have been placed on the internet for all and sundry to see. As well as … [Read more...]

Bank of America cuts ties with WikiLeaks

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Here at OSM we’ve been covering all the news about the WikiLeaks Cyberwar and just a few of our recent posts included removeable media now being banned by the U.S. Military, European Amazon sites going down thought to be connected with pro-WikiLeaks hackers, and most recently the fact that Julian … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted bail but still in jail

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If you’ve been following all our WikiLeaks posts here on OSM you’ll know we’ve been bringing you all the latest developments and most recently wrote about a link between the Amazon store going down and WikiLeaks, removeable media being banned by the U.S. military and also asked how much worse … [Read more...]

Amazon European Sites Down: Is there a link with WikiLeaks?

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If you are trying to buy some of those all important gifts for Christmas right now via Amazon, and you live in Europe you will encounter a problem. … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks: Removable media now banned by U.S. Military

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We know how many of you are following all the news about WikiLeaks after the latest round of leaks and have posted many articles on this. Recent posts included telling how Facebook and also Twitter are still holding out against banning WikiLeaks despite pressure from the U.S. government which has … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks Cyberwar: How Much Worse Could It Get?

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Since the last round of WikiLeaks leaks we have been bringing you news almost daily it seems about attempts to impede WikiLeaks. The U.S. government has made it perfectly clear how displeased it is with WikiLeaks and following pressure from various sources Amazon booted WikiLeaks from its servers, … [Read more...]

Wikileaks Not Banned From Facebook: No Violation

Wikileaks Not Banned From Facebook- No Violation

The whole Wikileaks saga does not want to go away, and for a site that thought that the world was against it would have been happy that Twitter was on its side. We do not know for how long, but we can also report that Facebook is not ready to ban their page just yet. … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks and Twitter: Still holding strong

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We’ve been bringing you all the news about the latest round of WikiLeaks leaks with more developments every day it seems. Our most recent posts have included articles about WikiLeaks being booted from Amazon, having its account stopped by PayPal and the allegations that the Chinese government … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks: Cyber attacks on Google were ordered by China

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It seems that virtually every day lately we have more news to tell you about WikiLeaks, the whistle blowing website, after its latest round of leaks. WikiLeaks has had troubles heaped upon it since, with the U.S. government making its displeasure known leading to Amazon booting Wikileaks from its … [Read more...]

Wikileaks website woes worsen: Now banned by PayPal

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We’ve been bringing you news about Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website for some time now and know that it’s a controversial subject. While some feel the site goes too far and threatens U.S. national security, others feel that it’s a good thing that many of the leaks so far should have … [Read more...]

Wikileaks website booted from Amazon servers

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We’ve been keeping you informed about the latest round of Wikileaks leaks including the denial of service attack on the Wikileaks site, the key points about the recent leaks, and then yesterday reporting on Wikileaks’ founder, Julian Assange, being put on Interpol’s most-wanted list. … [Read more...]

Wikileaks’ Assange wanted by Interpol: Persecution not prosecution?

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Here at OSM we’ve been keeping you informed about the latest round of Wikileaks leaks. We told how the Wikileaks website was under a mass distributed denial of service attack, and then posted an article on some of the key points from the leaked cables. … [Read more...]

Wikileaks Update: Leaked cables key points

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Last week we brought you the news that another major leak of documents was about to come from Wikileaks, the whistle blowing site, which it said would redefine global history. Then yesterday we brought more news to say the site was under a mass distributed service of denial attack, shortly before … [Read more...]

Wikileaks Website Down: Twitter Updates On Attack

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Regular readers of OSM may remember we recently reported that Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website, had announced via Twitter that it would shortly publish more leaks, hundreds of thousands of them, in news that it said would redefine global history. … [Read more...]

Wikileaks announce more leaks on Twitter – Global history redefined

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You’ve probably heard by now of Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website that publishes leaked documents from anonymous sources. A few months ago we brought you the news of the leak of thousands of military documents, the Afghan War diaries, and the subsequent fallout. There were then further … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks Threated by Pentagon: Should they return documents?

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WikiLeaks, an international organisation that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents has now come up against the U.S. Department of Defense. In recent news to hit the headlines, they have issued WikiLeaks with an ultimatum “return all the secret documents … [Read more...]

Wikileaks Update: Investigations intensify

Last week, thousands of classified military documents were released onto Wikileaks by a soldier called Bradley Manning. This soldier then got into heaps of trouble and is currently awaiting trial for his crimes. Now it seems that he may have had help obtaining the software which he used to gain … [Read more...]

Wikileaks and Facebook Privacy / Security: Do we care?

Wikileaks and Facebook Privacy Security- Do we care

This has not been a great week for our privacy and security, and this had been brought about by two of the biggest social networking service – the controversial Wikileaks and the biggest of them all, Facebook. … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks on Twitter: Controversial Conversation

WikiLeaks on Twitter- Controversial Conversation

WikiLeaks has not been out of the news for two days now, a result of them making military documents available to the public – more on this in our recent article. There have been a number of arguments over this, with the public having a mixed view, but this has not stopped people from visiting … [Read more...]

Wikileaks: The Aftermath after leaked documents

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You’ve probably all heard about WikiLeaks, the website that publishes leaked information and its recent publication of military documents under the title of the Afghan War Diary. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the issue among the military, politicians and of course the public, … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks’s Freedom of information and knowledge: At what cost?

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Wikileaks is a place on the internet where people can share information without giving out their name. If somebody comes across some information which should be released to the public, but they are too afraid to do so using their real name, they can have it posted to Wikileaks. For example if I was … [Read more...]