A screen shot of the newly restored WikiLeaks.org site (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his organization is facing a “very aggressive” and secretive illegal investigation by US officials following last month’s release of 250,000 sensitive US diplomatic cables . Assange was released from a UK jail cell Thursday after being granted bail, following 10 days of imprisonment

A screen shot of the newly restored WikiLeaks.org site (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his organization is facing a “very aggressive” and secretive illegal investigation by US officials following last month’s release of 250,000 sensitive US diplomatic cables . Assange was released from a UK jail cell Thursday after being granted bail, following 10 days of imprisonment

A screen shot of the Swedish Prosecution Authority website, Aklagare.se (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers, has brought down the website of the Swedish Prosecution Authority ( www.aklagare.se ) Tuesday following the authority’s announcement that it intends to appeal against a British judge’s decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

A screen shot of the Swedish Prosecution Authority website, Aklagare.se (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers, has brought down the website of the Swedish Prosecution Authority ( www.aklagare.se ) Tuesday following the authority’s announcement that it intends to appeal against a British judge’s decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Swedish website went offline for nearly 11 hours on Tuesday, marking the latest in an ongoing series of attacks by Anonymous. The group has been attacking the websites of companies and governments which it views as acting against WikiLeaks, including Mastercard , Visa, PayPal , PostFinance and Moneybookers .

A screen shot of the Openleaks website, pre-launch (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A former staff member of WikiLeaks said he will launch a new alternative website that he promises will be more transparent than WikiLeaks. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former deputy to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will launch Openleaks ( www.openleaks.org ) Monday in an effort to aid anonymous sources expose sensitive information to the public eye.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) earlier this month pulled the plug on the WikiLeaks web site, forcing the latter to find a new web hosting company.

Amazon blames hardware – not hackers – for European outage Anonymous denies Grinch-style attack on Xmas shoppers By John Leyden • Get more from this author Posted in Enterprise Security , 13th December 2010 10:50 GMT Free whitepaper – The Register Guide to Enterprise Virtualization Problems with Amazon’s systems in Europe over the weekend were down to hardware failure rather than hackers, the e-commerce giant said on Sunday. Christmas shoppers trying to complete purchases from Amazon’s online stores in the UK, France, Germany, Austria and Italy were locked out for around half an hour on Sunday

Defenders of Wikileaks.org knock out PayPal and MasterCard Wednesday, December 08, 2010, 10:36:02 AM The war over Wikileaks.org is well under way and has claimed its first high profile victims in the forms of PayPal and MasterCard. It was announced yesterday that ‘hactivists’ 4chan had vowed to defend Wikileaks by ‘taking down’ any of the sites who first turned its back on Julian Assange and his organisation.

LONDON – The lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was negotiating with British police on Monday to discuss the arrest warrant Sweden has issued for the man who unleashed a tidal wave of secret documents on the Internet. Lawyer Mark Stephens told reporters in London that the Metropolitan Police had called him to say they had received the warrant from Sweden for Assange, who has been staying at an undisclosed location in Britain. “We are in the process of making arrangements to meet with police by consent in order to …

An image of the WikiLeaks website, back online at a Swiss domain name (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The support of WikiLeaks’ service providers continues to wane, following a week during which efforts to take the site offline dominated the news – over the weekend, PayPal suspended the site’s donation button, and Monday there were reports that the site’s Swedish servers might be under attack. (A lot of last week’s news concerning WikiLeaks is collected here, in our “weekend reading” feature .) An ABC News report from Monday said the site’s Swedish servers, located at the facilities of hosting provider PRQ were unresponsive, possibly due to a denial of service attack. The site has been the target of a few such attacks since the release, last Sunday, of a collection of 250,000 secret US diplomatic communications.