WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks—for almost a year—in prison by a London court for breaching his bail conditions in 2012 and taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy for nearly 7 years. The 47-year-old Assange was arrested last month by London's Metropolitan Police Service after the Ecuadorian government suddenly withdrew his political asylum. Within hours of his

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Encrypted Messaging Project "Matrix" Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack

Published: 2019-04-12 14:11:36

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Author: noreply@blogger.com (Mohit Kumar)

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Matrix—the organization behind an open source project that offers a protocol for secure and decentralized real-time communication—has suffered a massive cyber attack after unknown attackers gained access to the servers hosting its official website and data. Hackers defaced Matrix's website, and also stole unencrypted private messages, password hashes, access tokens, as well as GPG keys the

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Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

Published: 2019-03-14 10:47:59

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Author: noreply@blogger.com (Mohit Kumar)

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WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubling both for the social media giant and its millions of users, guess who benefits the most out of

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