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WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been freed from prison on Monday and left the UK as part of a plea deal, reports say.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been granted leave by the UK High Court to appeal against a bid to extradite him to the US to stand trial on espionage charges.

In just 11 days, a British court will decide whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the US where he will face trial on espionage charges.

A virtual protest against the planned extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will be held on 26 August at 5pm London time (2am AEDT 27 August), the organisers have announced.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given time until 29 March to respond to the US appeal to revoke a British judge's decision not to extradite him to America to face trial on espionage charges.

Security firm Avast has warned that it foresees more COVID 19 vaccination scams and attacks on healthcare and pharma organisations in 2021.

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies has sacked an employee in its Polish offices after the man was arrested for allegedly being involved in espionage.

Organisations in the Southeast Asian region are exposed to a 45% higher risk of facing a targeted cyber attack than the global average.

Russian IT security supremos, Kaspersky Lab, has exposed a four-year ‘Darkhotel’ espionage campaign by a ‘threat actor’ who is actively stealing information from top-level executives and who doesn’t pursue the same target twice.

International observers have been warning about this for some time but now the chickens have come home to roost. US security bans on Chinese technology companies are being reciprocated. With the most recent ban on IBM from Chinese banks being mooted, the question is who stands to gain anything?

Combating the convergence of cyber crime and financial crime heads the list of priorities for defending against digital criminality in 2014 from information intelligence solutions vendor BAE Systems Detica’s.

Security researchers have announced the discovery of a 'cyber mercenary' team which specialises in attacks on targets in Japan and South Korea, with more attacks said to come.