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Julian Assange charged with 17 new criminal counts under Espionage Act

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WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has been charged with 17 new criminal counts under the Espionage Act for “unlawfully obtaining” and disclosing national defense information. The indictment, which was issued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, concerns documents that he and Wikileaks helped to disclose that former Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning stole from the Department of Defense. Assange was “complicit” and “conspired with” Manning, according a Department of Justice Official, CNBC reports. Some of what WikiLeaks published included names of foreigners, including sources in the Middle East, who were helping U.S. military overseas, which “is alleged to have created imminent risks to the life and liberty,” per the DOJ. The U.S. government unsealed an indictment in April revealing that Assange had been charged for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in his alleged efforts to help Manning crack a password on a U.S. government computer. Assange, […]

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in UK Jail

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks—for almost a year—in prison by a London court for breaching his bail conditions in 2012 and taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy for nearly 7 years.

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Anonymous offshoots rush to avenge Assange arrest with cyberattacks

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Hackers have launched a series of uncoordinated cyberattacks against British and Ecuadorian targets over the past week in apparent retaliation for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A member of a group calling itself the Philippine Cyber Eagles, an Anonymous offshoot with fewer than 20 Twitter followers as of Friday morning, earlier this week released a 44 MB file containing documents purportedly stolen from police agencies throughout the United Kingdom. The file does not appear to contain personal information, though it does include spreadsheets, press releases, and Microsoft Excel files dated from February 2019. That data dump came on the same day another self-described Anonymous group claimed to knock offline Police.UK, a Home Office website, with a distributed denial-of-service attack — a blunt digital assault technique that overwhelms sites with falsified traffic. Other groups launched similar attacks against town councils in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and Bedale, located north of Leeds. […]

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There’s A Lot We Still Don’t Know About WikiLeaks’ Role In The 2016 Election

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The Mueller report leaves some unanswered questions on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks’s role in the hack and leak against the DNC and John Podesta. Continue reading There’s A Lot We Still Don’t Know About WikiLeaks’ Role In The 2016 Election→

US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning

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An FBI agent admitted in a newly unsealed court document that the Department of Justice does not know whether Assange’s offer to help Manning came to fruition. Continue reading US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning→

Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, & Julian Assange – Paul’s Security Weekly #600

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    In the news, Bitcoin mining ban considered by China’s economic planner, Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement, Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange arrested an… Continue reading Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, & Julian Assange – Paul’s Security Weekly #600→

An attempted password crack was enough for a U.S. indictment against Julian Assange

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The U.S. government unsealed an indictment Thursday charging Julian Assange with a single count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly agreeing to help crack a password on a protected U.S. government computer. Legal experts who spoke with CyberScoop said Assange didn’t actually have to directly hack anything to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which was enacted in 1984 to prohibit unauthorized access to a computer system. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in March 2010 was engaged in a conspiracy with former U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley) to access and publish classified material stolen from U.S. government networks, the indictment says. By actively participating in the collection of data from a protected government network, rather than receiving it from a source after the collection — as journalists typically do — Assange is legally liable, according to prosecutors. After Manning provided Assange with “hundreds of thousands” of government […]

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 47, has been arrested by Met Police from the embassy of Ecuador in London after seven years of refuge over a now dropped case of sexual assault. The arrest took place after Ecuadorian president Lenin More… Continue reading Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London→

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London—that’s almost seven years after he took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case.

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