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Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize !

Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize !

May 11, 2011
Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize ! WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Wednesday awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation's top honor for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights," joining the likes of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Assange, an Australian former computer hacker who is fighting extradition from Britain to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, was praised and rewarded with the Sydney Peace Prize's Gold Medal. Although the Peace Prize is awarded annually by the foundation only three other people in its 14-year history have been awarded the gold award for courage in pursuit of human rights -- the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. The foundation paid tribute to Assange's determination to seek greater transparency and accountability from governments around the world, having challenged "centuries old practices of government secrecy." "By championing people's right to k
You got owned, Exposure about privacy on facebook !

You got owned, Exposure about privacy on facebook !

May 10, 2011
You got owned, Exposure about privacy on facebook ! If you had any doubts regarding privacy on facebook, here is a list containing hundreds of user and password, how can this be ? Easy, any application that asks for permission can get your credentials! And then do not say that we had not warned :P WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook is Spying on You and Your Loved Ones "Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S. intelligence." Read More News Regarding Facebook on THN : Assange says Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence ! A Syrian Man-In-The-Middle Attack against Facebook Facebook is not Exclusion, XML Vulnerability ! Truth About Facebook -  CIA, U.S. government - Everything Related ! Vulnerability in Facebook Email feature Exposed ! Face
GenAI: A New Headache for SaaS Security Teams

GenAI: A New Headache for SaaS Security Teams

Apr 17, 2024SaaS Security / AI Governance
The introduction of Open AI's ChatGPT was a defining moment for the software industry, touching off a GenAI race with its November 2022 release. SaaS vendors are now rushing to upgrade tools with enhanced productivity capabilities that are driven by generative AI. Among a wide range of uses, GenAI tools make it easier for developers to build software, assist sales teams in mundane email writing, help marketers produce unique content at low cost, and enable teams and creatives to brainstorm new ideas.  Recent significant GenAI product launches include Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Salesforce Einstein GPT. Notably, these GenAI tools from leading SaaS providers are paid enhancements, a clear sign that no SaaS provider will want to miss out on cashing in on the GenAI transformation. Google will soon launch its SGE "Search Generative Experience" platform for premium AI-generated summaries rather than a list of websites.  At this pace, it's just a matter of a short time befo
Assange says Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence !

Assange says Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence !

May 03, 2011
Assange says Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence ! WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has branded Facebook an "appalling spying machine". According to Assange, whose WikiLeaks whistle-blowing site has propelled him into the media limelight, US intelligence services have direct access to records of Facebook users. "Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that's ever been invented," he said in an interview with Russia Today. "Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their addresses and locations, their communications with each other - all sitting within the United States and all accessible to US intelligence." Assange claimed that because of the costs involved each time an internet company was asked for access to specific data files, the big companies have built in back doors for officials to help themselves to whatever data they wanted. "Facebook, Google, Yahoo – all these major US organisations - hav
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#OperationLeakS by Anonymous Hacker leaks Bank of America Emails !

#OperationLeakS by Anonymous Hacker leaks Bank of America Emails !

Mar 14, 2011
OperationLeakS by Anonymous Hacker leaks Bank of America Emails ! We may soon find out whether it's possible to shame one of the big U.S. banks by exposing its mortgage missteps. A series of  messages  on Twitter Sunday evening promised the release of emails supposedly documenting "fraud and corruption" at Bank of America (BAC). The post, from the anonymous @OperationLeakS handle, said "leaked emails" from the bank would be posted at 5 a.m. London time, which is 1 a.m. in New York. The release will come three and a half months after Wikileaks founder Julian Assange breezily promised to "take down a bank or two" by releasing "either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents." Assange likened the documents to the ones that prosecutors used in bringing top executives of failed energy trader Enron to justice. The bank didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The document dump, billed in the Twitter posts as " Blac
Anonymous Hackers will Expose Something Awful About Bank Of America On Monday !

Anonymous Hackers will Expose Something Awful About Bank Of America On Monday !

Mar 12, 2011
There's something about Bank of America that seems to make it a magnet for controversy, anger, and internet activism. Last year Wikileaks' Julian Assange said he had documents on a major bank -- everyone kind of figured that it was Bank of America -- though it now seems that there isn't much to it. Now Gawker's Adrien Chen points out that a member of the hacker group Anonymous going by the handle OperationLeaks on twitter is claiming to have damning docs on the bank that will likely be released Monday. OperationLeaks has been teasing all day on twitter about having received documents on the bank from a disgruntled employee. Chen's own sources within Anonymous suggest there's something real to the leaks. In terms of substance, it's not clear what we might see.  This tweet , regarding  is the closest thing to anything explanatory: He Just told me he have GMAC emails showing BoA order to mix loan numbers to not match it's Documents.. to foreclose on Ameri
Anonymous Hacker Group Helps Take Down Insupportable Websites !

Anonymous Hacker Group Helps Take Down Insupportable Websites !

Mar 10, 2011
Hacker group Anonymous takes down websites across the world for the greater good: peace, freedom of information and solidarity. Anonymous, which began as a movement in 2003 on a series of internet chat boards, has gone from targeting small time hypocrites to large multinational corporations bringing it from the background of hacker culture to the forefront of global politics. Anonymous is considered a "hackivist" movement that became globally recognized in 2010 after shutting down Mastercard, Visa, and Paypal during what they called Operation Payback. These major corporations stopped providing their services to Wikileaks, which had been using them to accept donations into the Wikileaks defense fund. This action on the part of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal offended the Anonymous community as an affront to freedom and justice. Anonymous stated on Al Jazeera that they could have taken down the infrastructure of all three websites but didn't because they wanted people to still be able to u
Anonymous : We have Revolution in mind, we can change the World !

Anonymous : We have Revolution in mind, we can change the World !

Mar 05, 2011
Anonymous : We have Revolution in mind , we can change the World ! We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. — Anonymous They are Internet Heroes, hackers and hijackers, information rebels, revolutionaries and resisters. They are you, me, the grunt in the next cubicle, the geek who fixes your computer. They are Anonymous, an informal collective of  interactivists  that last month virtually armed protestors in Tunisia and Egypt with the necessary knowledge to topple governments: How to keep safe during protests. How to bypass censors. How not to leave an online trail. How to keep posting YouTubes when the dictators have pulled the Internet plug. One more very special lines I have written for Anonymous Hackers as below : We r Anonymous Hackers,bt we dnt Hack the Humanity.. We hate studies,Bt we love technology... World Can't Change Us,Bt We can CHANGE THE WORLD... We dnt have books in hand,Bt we have revolution in mind... We r the rarest com
Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks !

Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks !

Feb 17, 2011
The exploits of Anonymous to hack the systems of firms providing spying services to governments and corporations suggest that the WikiLeaks mini-era has been surpassed. Much of WikiLeaks promise to protect sources is useless if the sources are not whistleblowers needing a forum for publication. Instead publishers of secret information grab it directly for posting to Torrent for anybody to access without mediation and mark-up by self-esteemed peddlers of protection, interpretationa and authentication, including media cum scholars. Ars Technica descriptions of the how the Anonymous hack are the best technical reading of Internet derring-do yet and far exceeds the much simpler rhetorical version of WikiLeaks security carefully bruited as if invulnerable but is not according to Daniel Domscheit-Berg's revelations. AnonLeaks.ru  is a remarkable advance of WikiLeaks. And promises much more by the same means and methods most associated with official spies -- NSA and CIA have long run
Ruling in Assange Extradition Case Expected Feb. 24,2011 !

Ruling in Assange Extradition Case Expected Feb. 24,2011 !

Feb 12, 2011
Final arguments in the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were presented in a London court on Friday. The judge is expected to rule on February 24, but the case is likely to continue long afterward if either side files an appeal. Assange is being sought for questioning in Sweden on rape and coercion allegations stemming from sexual relations he had with two women in that country last August. One woman has claimed that Assange pinned her down to have sex with her and intentionally tore a condom he wore. The second woman claims that he had sex with her while she was initially asleep, failing to wear a condom despite repeated requests for him to do so. Assange has disputed their claims. Assange's attorneys have argued that Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny had abused the Swedish and U.K. legal process by attempting to extradite Assange without charging him with a crime, and for alleged offenses that are not subject to extradition. They contradicted Ny's assertion that
Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked !

Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked !

Feb 10, 2011
Three security consulting firm with links to intelligence agencies of the United States to cook up to dirty tricks campaign late last year in favor of Wikileaks to destroy its perceived weaknesses, reads the draft published in the organization of information 'which claimed to be from the conspirators. Around December 3 was believed to be a consultant for defense contractors in the United States palantíri Technologies, Technology Berico HBGary and suggested lawyers desperate Bank of America union, which would ruin the site informants' uses a divide and conquer approach. The conspirators called a war of disinformation to "feed the confrontation between groups of fuel, which include a loss of false documents" call failed ", the creation of" concern for the safety of the infrastructure, "Wikileaks hackers to discover that respondents were to kill the project "and a media campaign to highlight the" radical and irresponsible nature of Wikileaks
Is WikiLeaks Really Hacking for Secrets !

Is WikiLeaks Really Hacking for Secrets !

Feb 05, 2011
In April 2009 the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks appear a abstruse U.S. aggressive certificate account abstruse capabilities of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. In an online column answer how it acquired the information, WikiLeaks adumbrated alone that it came from "a source." It was addition accomplishment for WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, who describes the extensive organization—it has no anchored domicile—as a defended agenda bead box for antagonistic insiders. He has again said WikiLeaks doesn't actively access classified abstracts but rather provides a belvedere for others who accept arcane advice to acknowledge for the attainable good. Except that WikiLeaks, according to Internet aegis aggregation Tiversa, appears to accept bolter bottomward that aggressive certificate itself. Tiversa says the accumulation may accept exploited a affection of file-sharing applications such as LimeWire and Kazaa that are generally acclimate
London Police Arrest Five Anonymous Hacker !

London Police Arrest Five Anonymous Hacker !

Jan 28, 2011
Month after allegedly assaulting various websites to defend Wikileaks London police may have caught members of "hacktivism" Anonymous group. Five alleged members were arrested in London today for Anonymous violation of the Computer Misuse Act. The men are aged 15 to 26 and face up to 10 years in prison and fines of £ 5,000. According to the website of the Metropolitan Police, reduce arrests from an ongoing study of the recent DDoS attacks which took place after the fallout from the arrest of Assange Wikileaks "Chief Julian. Different companies have refused to cough and the site Wikileaks is constantly blocked from its cable outlet in the United States ranked. In response sent a group of "hactivists" that anonymous calls, repeated attacks by opponents Wikileaks, including the likes of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Amazon, to varying success. Anonymous claims to be an organization without a leader, there is no hierarchy. Authorities around the world have st
Wikileaks said - No, We Do Not Hack The Icelandic Parliament !

Wikileaks said - No, We Do Not Hack The Icelandic Parliament !

Jan 25, 2011
Although some of the United States has accused the Wikileaks to steal data from peer-to-peer file-sharing, the second, was the guest of the payment to the surface in Iceland late last week: that the group informant in some a computer spy planted "in the Parliament building. A brief article in the Icelandic daily Morgunbladid law last Thursday reported that a mysterious PC was found in the Althing, the strengthening of the legislative capital of Reykjavik, in February last year. The team was in an empty room near the office of Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of parliament who was appointed to the U.S. Department Justice probe of Wikileaks, despite the severance of ties with the group last summer. The newspaper reported that the police investigation has led to suspicions that the equipment was used for espionage, and, although no data or identity of the team gave no clues about its origins, Wikileaks was one of the suspects. Kristinn Icelandic Wikileaks Hrafnson categorically den
Hacker Fantasy Cyberworld Of Good And Evil : Wikileaks !

Hacker Fantasy Cyberworld Of Good And Evil : Wikileaks !

Jan 21, 2011
What is the future of political protest, as in a highly digitized world? We follow the real-time display via Wikileaks Cablegate. The day of the cables has been convicted for release in major newspapers worldwide, called a "political hack" cut the Wikileaks site with a distributed denial of service (DDoS). Later he wrote about Twitter that he went after the site for "attempting to give life to our troops and other assets." Wikileaks Swedish webhost moved the site owned by Amazon.com and Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) in Ireland. When Senator Joseph Lieberman contact the hosting site, Amazon, Amazon Wikileaks to stop the service, citing terms of use. Then the free-for-all began. The pirates were involved, this time on behalf of Wikileaks, directed to Amazon. When PayPal froze payments to Wikileaks, the anonymous group of hackers, who organized the attacks on Amazon, focusing on reducing the site to pay online. When MasterCard announced that it would cease opera
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