SECURITY

Bank of America has banned transactions to whistle-blower site Wikileaks since Friday, according to media reports. The Obama Administration earlier urged financial organizations to sever ties with the site for illegally releasing confidential US diplomatic cables.

Legal experts, including a pair of former U.S. prosecutors, discussed U.S. law and how it relates to the leaking of documents online by the WikiLeaks organization and its founder Julian Assange.

Whistleblower site Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been in spotlight for exposing diplomatic cables, seems to have a cablegate scandal of his own, as some of his emails recording his attempt to court a teenager have surfaced.

Nerbrand's team at HSBC reckon that Gold Investment accounts for just 0.14% of the average global portfolio today. If this figure increases, as we expect, the Gold Price could rise significantly...We believe asset allocators are likely to increase their weighting in gold over the next ten years if they focus on risk management

World reacts against TIME magazine’s choice to snub Wikileak's founder Julian Assange and honor Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg as the 2010 Person of the Year title.

London's High Court, on Thursday, upheld a decision to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has earned the ire of the U.S. government for releasing secret diplomatic cables, on bail.

UK high court has upheld the lower court's decision to grant bail to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The Swedish prosecutors, who urged the court to revoke the bail, lost their appeal. The court is currently giving out the details of the bail conditions. Assange is likely to be freed on late Thursday.

Sealed off security zones in major American cities post 9/11 attacks has led to blighted landscapes and create an 'architecture of fear', said a study.

Award-winning director Michael Moore is coming out in support of WikiLeaks, posting $20,000 in bail money for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

In a sign that cyber security needs rapid quality improvements, two more U.S. companies, McDonald's Corp and Walgreen Co, said they had been hacked in the past week, along with U.S. media company, Gawker.

Gleacher & Co. initiated coverage on Check Point Software with a 'buy' rating and price target of $55 on potential benefits from growing network security market.

U.S. dollar losses deepened on Monday, with traders chalking up the currency's broad decline to a combination of firmer risk appetite, year-end positioning and some concerns about strained U.S. finances.

The outage suffered by Amazon.com's European websites was due to a hardware failure but not due to hacking attacks, according to the company. The websites Amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr and amazon.es were down for almost half an hour late on Sunday night. Hackers have not made any claims of the attack so far.

The assault of Wikileaks forced US military to ban the usage of CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives on its internal network, SIPRNET, reports suggest. The latest move is likely to force Pentagon to revert to using a rather conventional data-transfer medium. Memos sent out earlier this week by the defense department also warn of court martial to military personnel found in violation of the order.

The anonymous hacker group that brought down the websites of Visa and MasterCard Wednesday also attacked Republican Sarah Palin's website SarahPAC.com early on Thursday. The website remained inaccessible for hours following the attack, whcih was part of the group's Operation Payback.

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange quickly built a cyber army that shut down the websites of the world's two biggest credit card companies using simple tools posted on the Internet.

Global Payment firm MasterCard said it is experiencing heavy traffic on its external corporate website - MasterCard.com.

Hackers, possibly in retaliation for attacks on Wikileaks, forced down the website of the international credit card service MasterCard on Wednesday and warned PayPal they could be next. PayPal has admitted that the US Government was behind the company's decision to sever ties with Wikileaks.

Hackers forced down the website of the international credit card service, MasterCard, on Wednesday. The move is likely to be an apparent revenge by alleged Wikileaks supporters. In what they called Operation: Payback, the anonymous hackers announced on twitter that they successfully brought down the MasterCard website with DDoS attacks. MasterCard had earlier severed ties with the whistle-blower site, suspending all payments to the organization. The website currently remains inaccessible...

Here’s someone who “caught” America’s Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) agent’s eyes at Los Angeles International Airport. The former ‘Baywatch’ actress Donna D'Errico claims that a TSA agent pulled her for body scan without giving a choice of undergoing pat-down search, as per the normal procedure.

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd blamed the United States over the leaked diplomatic cables and maintained that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange 'is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release'.