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TechSpot WikiLeaks publishes five-hour conversation between Eric Schmidt and Julian … The Verge Google chairman Eric Schmidt and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange secretly met in 2011 and held a lengthy interview, according to a transcript published on the whistleblowing site.

Premature exultation Inquirer.net Read in this context, the recent WikiLeak of a 2010 US diplomatic cable is most telling. MILF peace negotiator Michael Mastura was quoted to have said that the peace process was “too complicated for [then] Senator Aquino to understand.” Given the ..

Apple Security Advisory 2013-04-16-2 – Java for OS X 2013-003 and Mac OS X v10.6 Update 15 are now available and address many vulnerabilities in 1.6.0_43.

Apple Security Advisory 2013-04-16-1 – Safari 6.0.4 is now available and fixes one vulnerability. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An invalid cast issue existed in the handling of SVG files. This issue was addressed through improved type checking.

It's right to be nervous of cyber sabotage operations, but a one-off doesn't necessarily mean an online war is imminent.

A group purported to be hacktivists Anonymous says that at the request of the family of Nova Scotia teenager Rehtaeh Parsons, it will withhold the names of the individuals alleged to have raped the teenager before her death, but adds others might not go along with that decision.

ftpd on Mac OS X 10.8.3 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.

LONDON (AP) — It's a promising form of electronic cash free from central bankers and beloved by hackers. It — Bitcoin — may also be in trouble, registering catastrophic losses that have sent speculators scrambling.

Democracy Now (blog) WikiLeaks ' New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning Democracy Now (blog) WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976, which they have dubbed “The Kissinger Cables,” after Henry Kissinger, who in those years served as secretary of state and ..

LONDON (AP) — With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that's feeding the rise of a new kind of money — a virtual currency whose oscillations have pulled geeks and speculators alike through stomach-churning highs and lows.