Image Of The Day: Wikileaks Cablegate By the Numbers

Its no surprise that the headlines this Monday that weren’t about the online shopping Bacchanal known as Cyber Monday were about the latest purge of confidential documents from Wikileaks. The Web site, which made a name for itself by publishing leaked documents concerning the wars in Iraq and...

WikiLeaks Confirms China's Responsibility for Aurora Attacks

It is being reported that WikiLeaks latest release of 250,000 diplomatic cables confirms the suspicion that China was responsible for the Aurora attacks on Google’s computer systems in January. Both Google and the State Department initially believed China was responsible for the attacks, but the...

Wikileaks, Dodging DDoS, Bounces Back to Amazon

The Web site of Wikileaks was moving quickly to stay out of the way of large scale denial of service attacks on Sunday and Monday, following the release of a trove of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. The controversial site, which has spent months trying to find a home secure from government...

MIT Students Reported to Aid Wikileaks

Two students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT may have helped WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning spirit classified information out of military databases, according to a CNN report. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Hackers break into database, demand ransom

From WaPo Security Fix Brian Krebs Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site’s homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the...