WikiLeaks

"Operation Payback" wanted to take Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) down probably more than any other site attacked the week of Dec.6. The organizers wanted Amazon to pay for dropping Wikileaks from its hosting. Hackers attacked for one full hour. But Amazon didn't budge; no slow downs, no outages, no...

Fox Business Network's Senior Correspondent, Charlie Gasparino, is reporting this afternoon that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is worried that they are the target of Wikileaks and has set up a “war room” to handle the potential release of information on Countrywide, mortgage creation, and Merrill...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange handed himself in to British police on Tuesday after Sweden issued a warrant for his arrest over allegations of sex crimes, London's Metropolitan Police said.Assange, whose WikiLeaks website is at the center of a row over the release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables...

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Zero Hedge just tweeted that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has stopped hosting WikiLeaks website. The news was first reported by Reuters. WikiLeaks has come under much public attention lately, as the company recently disclosed a series of confidential government documents. It will also be releasing...

Forgive me if I stray slightly, but I could not help thinking about how ironic it would be if someone leaked information as to the whereabouts of Wikileaks founder and "fearless leader" Julian Assange -- who is in hiding! It would be even more ironic if a CIA operative who had his cover blown by...

Charlie Gasparino tweeted that his sources at Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) say that the Charlotte-based bank are unaware of any target by WikiLeaks. In a Forbes interview that ran yesterday, WikiLeaks co-editor Julianne Arrange said he would be outing a major U.S. based bank in the next coming...

Rumors are swirling that Wikileaks has information that will "take down" one or two U.S. banks. Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said that he will be posting the information early in 2011. Last year, Assange reveled that he has information on Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). In an interview he...

WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, plans to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year, Forbes Magazine reported on Monday. According to a Reuters report, "Julian Assange declined in an interview with Forbes to identify the bank, but he said that he...