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A CIA engineer, who was convicted of leaking documents to WikiLeaks that exposed the agency's mass surveillance activities, has been jailed for 40 years.

China has resurrected charges that go back more than a decade, accusing the NSA of hacking into the servers of telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from 2009 onwards.

A pro-government Chinese newspaper claims malicious software, that appears to be from US intelligence agencies, has been discovered during a probe into an attack on the Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Centre which is affiliated to the city's Emergency Management Bureau.

A British journalist who has, in the past, blown the whistle on WikiLeaks' own ethical lapses, claims the US Department of Justice and the FBI are leaning on his fellow scribes to back the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

Data theft using a zero-day in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer has been claimed to be carried out by the Cl0p ransomware group, with the incidents starting on 27 May.

COMPANY NEWS: Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, today announced it has surpassed US$500 million in software subscription annual recurring revenue (ARR). Additionally, the company achieved a net dollar retention rate of greater than 140%, a testament to Rubrik’s ability to retain customers and expand within its customer base.

Former US secretary of state and ex-head of the CIA Mike Pompeo has been formally served with a lawsuit which claims he provided oversight for a criminal conspiracy to violate Fourth Amendment rights of American lawyers and journalists inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will take his own life if he is extradited to the US, his lawyer Jennifer Robinson says, adding that the situation is very serious and the Australian Government needs to act on it immediately.

Mexico has awarded WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange the keys to its capital, Mexico City, in its latest move to celebrate the Australian's journalism and pressure the Biden administration to act on the pending extradition case.

Lawyers have filed a suit against the CIA, its director at the time Mike Pompeo and security firm UC Global for allegedly spying on WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange and his visitors while he was in the Ecuador embassy in London.

A former CIA engineer has been convicted of espionage for leaking documents to WikiLeaks that exposed the agency as engaging in mass surveillance.

Security specialist Rubrik has appointed Michael Mestrovich to the role of chief information security officer.

The government of Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency after a number of state agencies, including the finance ministry, were hit by the Windows ransomware strain known as Conti.

Two Australian senators have called for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to be set free by the UK and brought back to Australia, following the issue of an extradition order for him to be sent to the US for trial.

A report accusing China of conducting attacks on India's power grid has been attributed to a cyber-security firm named Insikt Group, by the British website, The Register.

In what is an unusual turn of events, a Chinese security firm has revealed details about malware that it says emanated from the portals of the US National Security Agency.

A ransomware gang known as Groove is claimed to have been an elaborate hoax meant to deceive the security sector and the media, with even a site backed by a CIA-funded threat intelligence firm falling for the spoof.

Lawyers pushing to overturn a British verdict to deny the extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the US have avoided any mention of a report that the CIA planned to kill him in 2017, during the two-day appeal that ended on Thursday.

The UK's signals intelligence organisation, GCHQ, and MI5 and MI6 will use Amazon Web Services for hosting classified material in a deal estimated to be worth up to £1 billion (A$1.83 billion) over a decade.

Pressure is being ramped up on the US as the date approaches for Washington's appeal on Wednesday and Thursday at the High Court in London against a ruling denying its request to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.