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Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) raised a cudgel against Anonymous, claiming that its website is under threat from the outfit known for taking down sites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Japan has created a covert foreign intelligence agency to spy on China and North Korea and to collect information on terrorist attacks, said a media report citing the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

The Canadian government was hit by an unprecedented cyber attack from Chinese-based computers last month that penetrated two key economic ministries, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday.

An American jailed for shooting two Pakistanis is shielded by diplomatic immunity, a Pakistani official said Wednesday, but local courts are likely have the final say in a case that has ignited a bruising row between two strategic allies.

Global miner BHP Billiton's boss, Marius Kloppers, confirmed on Wednesday he had harboured concerns about Chinese and competitor espionage on his business, citing it as a reason behind his push for market pricing of key commodities.

Anonymous, the hacker collective known for its attacks on WikiLeaks detractors, has crossed swords with HBGary and other security firms in retaliation to the HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr's earlier threat.

Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton once offered to trade intelligence with Washington on China, its most important market, an Australian newspaper said on Tuesday, citing leaked U.S. cables obtained from WikiLeaks.

A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused Sweden's prime minister on Friday of damaging his client's chances of a fair trial for alleged sex crimes by portraying him as public enemy number one.

A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused Sweden's prime minister Friday of damaging his client's chances of a fair trial for alleged sex crimes by portraying him as public enemy number one.

China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has arrived in Zimbabwe to start a five-nation tour of Africa, amidst reports the two nations have signed a $10-billion trade deal.

A book authored by a WikiLeaks defector claims that the founder of the whistleblower website, Julian Assange, has four 'love children' across the world. An excerpt of the tell-all book was leaked to gossip website Gawker.

Julian Assange's former right-hand man on the Wikileaks website denounces Assange as an irresponsible, autocratic bully who once threatened to kill him in a book launched on Thursday.

WikiLeaks's ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers, activists and journalists who have worked with the site say.

When competitors shut down payments to WikiLeaks after the controversial website released a slew of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, Sharif Alexandre refused to join the boycott. The Egyptian-born entrepreneur and founder of Xipwire - a Philadelphia-based mobile payments startup - stood opposed to PayPal and Amazon and let customers continue making donations via cellphones.

The issue of peak oil was raised by Sadad al Husseini, a former top official at Aramco, Saudi Arabia's oil monopoly, in conversations with US officials, according to Wikileaks.

China used its regulatory powers to scour the books of Citibank Shanghai in a hostile and extraordinarily intrusive 2007 audit that appeared primarily aimed at controlling Citi's growth and uncovering its secrets to success, the bank's top China executive at the time told U.S. officials.

A former Swedish prosecutor called by the defense Tuesday attacked his country's handling of sex crimes allegations against WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange that could lead to his extradition to Sweden.

The defence lawyer for former Liberian president Charles Taylor defied the Sierra Leone war crimes court on Tuesday, walking out in protest ahead of closing arguments in the case and calling it a farce.

A former Swedish prosecutor called by the defense attacked his country's handling of sex crimes allegations against WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange that could lead to his extradition to Sweden.

Accused of some of the highly stigmatized felonies, will Assange or WikiLeaks still be considered for Nobel Prize? However, Al Gore, who won the 2007 Peace award, did have a similar sexual assualt taint.

With increasing number of government and other high-profile websites being targeted almost everyday, 'hacktivism' seems to have reached its peak. The recent targets of 'hacktivists' are listed here.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked a British judge on Monday to block his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, arguing he would not get a fair trial and could end up facing execution in the United States.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked a British judge on Monday to block his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, arguing he would not get a fair trial and could end up facing execution in the United States.

The Italian government’s website had been hacked over the weekend by a group of software experts called “Anonymous,” apparently as a protest against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A dossier of official documents giving insights into the release of the Lockerbie bomber is due to be published this week.

Egypt's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, has long sought to demonize the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in his contacts with skeptical U.S. officials, leaked diplomatic cables show, raising questions whether he can act as an honest broker in the country's political crisis.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will try to persuade a British judge Monday to block his extradition to Sweden to face trial for sex crimes, arguing he could end up facing execution in the United States.

The Italian government's website came under attack from computer hackers on Sunday, police said, after opponents of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said they would target the site to protest against curbs to media freedom.

- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to sue Britain's Guardian newspaper for allegedly giving his website's cache of classified U.S. cables to the New York Times, according to two new books.