PayPal is releasing all of the remaining funds in an account set up to raise money for WikiLeaks, but it will no longer accept donations for the site. John Muller, PayPal`s general counsel, announced the move in a blog post late yesterday in which he said PayPal`s decision to restrict the WikiLeaks account was not the result of any pressure from the US government.
There was so much interest in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when he was brought to the Wandsworth prison that authorities had to transfer him to the prison`s segregation unit where he has limited access to the internet. Assange was sent to prison after being denied bail on Tuesday on charges of sexual assault in Sweden, which is seeking his extradition. Accordin
The US Justice Department is looking into cyber attacks on opponents of WikiLeaks and companies that have stopped doing business with it, Attorney General Eric Holder has said. Holder made the comment at a news conference yesterday after a meeting on cybersecurity, counterterror and data protection with European Union law enforcement partners. Hackers launched atta
Vladimir Putin today led a growing band of international leaders voicing support for WikiLeaks` boss Julian Assange, describing his detention in Britain as "undemocratic". The Russian prime minister`s broadside came as hackers escalated their cyber war on opponents of the whistleblower website, setting their sights on Amazon.com. "Why was Mr Assange
US lawmakers have introduced legislations in the Congress which is aimed at stopping the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence community informants. The House version of the bill was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday by Congressman, the Senate version was introduced last week by Senators John Ensi
The UN`s human rights chief today expressed concern about pressure on private companies to stop providing financial or Internet services for whistleblower site Wikileaks. "I`m concerned about reports of pressure exerted on private companies, including banks, credit card companies, to close down credit lines for donations to WikiLeaks as well as to stop hosting the website or
Leading Pakistani newspapers today acknowledged that they were hoaxed into publishing reports based on fake WikiLeaks cables that contained stories of factionalism in Indian army and accused New Delhi of sponsoring militant groups. The reports splashed prominently in several papers including The Express Tribune and The News, a partner of the International Herald Tribune, quoting
In a unique move, the Central Vigilance Commission today launched an exclusive website for people to upload videos, audios and lodge complaints exposing acts of corruption in government departments. According to an anti-corruption watchdog official, Vig-Eye (an acronym for vigilance eye), provides a more user-friendly platform for interface between the CVC and the citizens who ma
Amid debate over whether spectrum should be auctioned or not, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today said that the sector should not be viewed as a source of revenue for the finance ministry as high cost of radio waves may prohibit the telcos from providing low tariffs. "The telecom sector should not be viewed as a source of revenue, especially in the context of the debate takin
Noted industrialist Ratan Tata may have blamed the BJP-led government for many flip-flops in the telecom policy, but praised the then Telecom Minister Arun Shourie for ushering in a regime that provided freedom of choice of technology. This, Tata said, was achieved through the creation of the Unified Access Service Licence (UASL) regime which enabled the licence holders to migrat
In the wake of the rape of a call centre employee in the capital, Delhi Police issued an order making it mandatory for BPOs, corporates and media houses from today to drop their women employees at their homes during night hours and also confirm about their safe arrival. Police also made it compulsory for the employers to ensure that a security guard accompanies the woman employee
Antivirus software provider Trend Micro today said it aims to capture 10 per cent share of the country`s consumer software security solution market by next year. The company, which has less than five per cent share of the USD 20 million Indian consumer security solutions market, aims to sell 80,000 licences by December next year. "Though our market share is lo
An FIR was registered against unidentified person/s for hacking into unsecured WiFi network in Navi Mumbai and allegedly concealing the existence of a design to wage war against India, police said today. The unidentified person/s were booked yesterday under relevant sections of Information Technology Act and IPC section 123 (concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war
A survey conducted by Mumbai Police in co-ordination with cyber experts has revealed that a startling 34,000 WiFi networks in the city are unsecured. Of the two lakh Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) networks in the metropolis, 17 per cent were found to be unprotected in a survey carried out by NASSCOM-KPMG and Mumbai police recently, cyber expert Vijay Mukhi said. Mukhi, w
Just days after stepping down as President of Malaysia`s largest ethnic Indian party, veteran politician Samy Vellu has found himself attacked in the cyberworld. A bogus Twitter account user has been sending "racist and derogatory" messages and falsely attributing them to the 74-year-old Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) stalwart under a Twitter account using the name &qu
A 26-year-old disc jockey (DJ) was questioned by city Crime Branch after his unsecured WiFi connection was hacked into to send an Indian Mujahideen terror email following the Varanasi blast, but was let off today. Akhil Talreja, a resident of Vashi in adjoining Navi Mumbai, says he had learnt right lessons from the incident and will never leave his connection unprotected again.
With better penetration of internet and broadband service, Gujarat has emerged as one of the top five online shopping markets in the country, leading e-commerce company eBay India claimed here today. According to eBay India, Gujarat ranked 4th after Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu, among the 28 states and seven Union Territories covered under the third edition of the Census don
IT major Wipro would set up a second campus in West Bengal at a cost of Rs 1000 crore that would provide 20,000 jobs. It would be located at New Town Rajarhat on the outskirts of the metropolis on 50 acre land provided by the West Bengal government. "Altogether 6,500 people are employed in the existing campus of Wipro in Salt Lake Sector-V against 1000 it coul
Telecom players are betting on the roll out of 3G and Broadband Wireless Access services to bolster their profit margins, which are being hurt by stiff competition and increased tariff war, says a study. The report prepared by KPMG which was released during the India Telecom 2010 summit, pointed out that the broadband sector is expected to log tremendous growth in the future as o
Several leading Pakistani newspapers today reproduced an elaborate internet hoax based on purported diplomatic cables from the US embassy in India that spoke of alleged rifts between top Indian Army generals and a "Bosnia-like genocide" in Jammu and Kashmir. The Nation and The News dailies put the report on their front pages while The Express Tribune, a partner of the I
