DoJ has secretly filed criminal charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, a person familiar with the case said, a drastic escalation of the government’s yearslong battle with him and his anti-secrecy group.
Top DoJ officials told prosecutors over the summer that they could start drafting a complaint against Assange, current and former LEOs said. The charges came to light late Thursday through an unrelated court filing in which prosecutors inadvertently mentioned them.
“The court filing was made in error,” said Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia. “That was not the intended name for this filing.”
On a wall of fame for stars of the Chinese company were several former employees of Nortel, the Canadian telecommunications giant that suffered a spectacular collapse a decade ago.
“These are (now) Huawei employees associated with great tech accomplishments … & I recognized so many of them,” said Calof, a U. of Ottawa business prof visiting the site w/ MBA students. “At one level you’re proud to be a Canadian, at the same time you’re upset to be Canadian”
The ex-Nortel engineers’ place of honour in Shenzhen underscores how the two companies’ fortunes unfurled for years in striking parallel, and yet with starkly different outcomes.
The defense contractor investigated in 2012 after cellphone videos surfaced of its employees drunk and high on drugs in Afghanistan may have misused almost $135 million of U.S. taxpayer money, an audit finds.
A financial audit done on behalf of the independent Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) alleges Imperatis Corp, formerly Jorge Scientific Corp, couldn’t produce docs to show payments to a subcontractor were allowed under its contract w/ the Army
The IG report, released in April, said either Imperatis should produce the appropriate documents “to demonstrate that the costs invoiced and paid were allowable…” or refund the money to government.
Before the 2016 election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary’s private server.
In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, implied he was working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, at the time a senior adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump.
“He said, ‘I’m talking to Michael Flynn about this—if you find anything, can you let me know?’” said Eric York, a computer-security expert from Atlanta who searched hacker forums on Mr. Smith’s behalf for people who might have access to the emails.
Bloomberg is resurrecting the Super Micro spy chip story it first ran in 2018. The original story was met with blanket and unambiguous denials from everyone from Apple to the NSA
Today’s update claims that spy chips were found in Super Micro servers at the US Department of Defense
October 2018
Bloomberg published a report claiming that companies including Amazon & Apple found Chinese surveillance chips in their server hardware contracted from Super Micro
Apple found these chips on its server motherboards in 2015. Apple is strongly refuting this report, sending out press statements to several publications, not just Bloomberg.
Norwegian police said on Friday they have ended a year-long probe into the disappearance of a Dutch cybersecurity expert, concluding he "most likely" died in an accident.
Arjen Kamphuis was last seen 20 Aug 2018, when checking out from a hotel in Bodoe, just north of the Arctic Circle. A few days later, a kayak with a hole in the hull and an oar were found on the shore of the fjord, as well as some other personal items.
Those circumstances and his work, which involved advising governments, firms, journalists and activists groups on how to prevent hacking attacks, fueled speculation of possible foul play.
One of his clients was the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks.