Wikileaks Reveals How CIA Was Hacking Your iPhones And MacBooks

As part of its "Vault 7" series, Wikileaks — the popular whistle-blowing platform — has just released another batch of classified documents focused on exploits and hacking techniques the Central Intelligence Agency CIA designed to target Apple MacOS and iOS devices. Dubbed "Dark Matter," the leak...

Cisco Warns of Critical Vulnerability Revealed in WikiLeaks 'Vault 7' Data Dump

Cisco Systems warned customers on Friday of a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and obtain full control on more than 300 different models of its switches and routers. Cisco said it became aware of the vulnerability after WikiLeaks released its Vault 7...

WikiLeaks Won't Disclose CIA Exploits To Companies Until Certain Demands Are Met

It's been over a week since Wikileaks promised to hand over more information on hacking tools and tactics of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA to the affected tech companies, following a leak of a roughly 8,761 documents that Wikileaks claimed belonged to CIA hacking units. "We have decided to...

7 Things That Happened After WikiLeaks Dumped The CIA Hacking Files

This week WikiLeaks published "Vault 7" — a roughly 8,761 documents and files claiming to detail surveillance tools and tactics of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA. The leak outlined a broad range of flaws in smartphones and other devices that the agency uses to intercept communications and sp...

10 Things You Need To Know About 'Wikileaks CIA Leak'

Yesterday WikiLeaks published thousands of documents revealing top CIA hacking secrets, including the agency's ability to break into iPhones, Android phones, smart TVs, and Microsoft, Mac and Linux operating systems. It dubbed the first release as Vault 7. Vault 7 is just the first part of leak...

WikiLeaks Exposed CIA's Hacking Tools And Capabilities Details

WikiLeaks has published a massive trove of confidential documents in what appear to be the biggest ever leak involving the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA. WikiLeaks announced series Year Zero, under which the whistleblower organization will reveal details of the CIA's global covert hacking...

Google Discloses Contents of Eight National Security Letters

Google on Tuesday disclosed the contents of eight National Security Letters it received between 2010 and 2015, becoming the latest company under reforms afforded by the USA Freedom Act to do so. The requests made by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation were made to Google to identify 21...

President Obama Orders 'Full Review' of Possible Russian hacking in US Election

In his final month in office, President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a "full review" of pre-election cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations that many believe affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The United States intelligence...

Anonymous Hacktivist 'Barrett Brown' Released From Prison

Barrett Brown, a journalist, formerly served as an unofficial spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, finally walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after serving more than four years behind bars. The Dallas-born investigative journalist was arrested in 2012 from his home while he...

Wikileaks Gets DDoSed after Leaking 8,200 DNC Emails One Day before U.S. Election

With just two days before the presidential election, WikiLeaks late Sunday night published a new trove of emails apparently hacked from the Democratic National Committee DNC. The most recent dump of more than 8,000 emails came after the whistleblowing site, on a daily basis over last four weeks,...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...

WikiLeaks Confirms Ecuador Cut Julian Assange's Internet Access After Clinton Leak

Early Monday, Whistleblowing site WikiLeaks tweeted that the internet connection of its co-founder, Julian Assange, was intentionally cut down, for which it blamed an unidentified "state party." But most surprisingly, it was Ecuador who was behind the act. WikiLeaks has confirmed that its founder...

Julian Assange is not Dead, but his Internet Connection is Cut by 'State Party'

Don't worry — Julian Assange is alive and kicking! But his Internet connection is dead. Earlier today, Wikileaks tweeted that its co-founder, Julian Assange, had his internet connection intentionally cut by an unidentified "state party." The non-profit organization said it had "activated...

WikiLeaks Promises to Publish Leaks on US Election, Arms Trade and Google

Wikileaks completed its 10 years today, and within this timespan, the whistleblower site has published over 10 million documents, and there’s more to come. In the name of celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Wikileaks promises to leak documents pertaining to Google, United States presidential...

Guccifer 2.0 Leaks Personal Info of Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats

The hacker, who recently claimed responsibility for the high-profile hack of Democratic National Committee DNC, has now taken credit for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee DCCC as well. To prove his claims, the hacker, going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, dumped on Friday...

Hillary Leaks Series: Wikileaks releases 20,000 DNC Emails

Today, whistleblowing website Wikileaks has finally published more than 19,000 e-mails, which contains more than 8,000 attachments from the US Democratic National Committee DNC. The new trove of documents apparently pilfered from the DMC released after Wikileaks yesterday announced via its offici...

United Nations Rules in Favor of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

VICTORY! As a result of the legal action against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by both British and Swedish Governments, he has been arbitrarily detained by the United Kingdom and Sweden since his arrest in London over five years ago. However, Assange filed a complaint against both the...

Wikileak's Julian Assange Could Be Set Free On Friday by United Nation

The decision of the United Nations investigation into the Julian Assange case is set to be revealed and could order the release of Wikileaks founder on February 5. "BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on Friday,"BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on...

WikiLeaks obtains CIA Director's Hacked Emails and Plans to Publish them Shortly

Breaking.... WikiLeaks, The Anti-secrecy and transparency organization, claims to have obtained the contents of CIA Director John Brennan's personal AOL email account. Also, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has promised to publish them soon on their website. Earlier this week, Brennan's...

France May Offer Asylum to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange

In wake of the latest revelations about the National Security Agency NSA global spying on country’s leaders, France may decide to offer political asylum to whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, as a "symbolic gesture." Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who is facing criminal...