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Notorious whistleblowing website, Wiki-Leaks has released over 250,000 diplomatic cables on Sunday. It sparked condemnation from the US government in regards to irresponsibility, claiming it was putting US official’s lives in danger.

Criminal investigations were opened into Wiki-Leaks spokesperson and Editor-in-chief Julian Assange. He has been severely restricted with his international travel.

Before working for Wiki-Leaks, Mr Assange was a physics and mathematics student, hacker, and computer programmer. He is constantly on the move and lives in several countries, making irregular public appearances to give talks to the press.

The White house has ordered government agencies to tighten their handling of classified documents after the latest explosive Wiki-leaks release.

Attorney General Eric Holder said there was an on-going criminal investigation into the release and anyone found responsible would be prosecuted. No doubt Wiki-Leaks is keeping hush, hush about the whole situation of who-did-what.  Although the US has fired back verbally, arguing the release was “reckless” and put the lives of diplomats at risk.

Mr Assange, said the US authorities were afraid of being held to account. The cables are a huge sampling of communications between the US State Department and its embassies and consulates around the world.

No-one has been charged with passing the diplomatic files to Wikileaks, but suspicion has fallen on US Army private Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak of classified US documents to Mr Assange’s organisation.

The cables release is the third mass Wikileaks release of classified document; it published 77,000 secret US files on the Afghan conflict in July, and 400,000 documents about the Iraq war in October.

Wikileaks argues the release of the documents has shed light on the wars, including allegations of torture and reports that suggest 15,000 additional civilian deaths happened in Iraq.

The US government has shut down over 70 sites that were supposedly selling fake goods and pirated copies.

The siege took place by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency which is part of the US Department of Homeland Security. This comes a few days after police here in the UK were trying to gain closing power of dodgy domains.

The domains in the States which were indefinitely suspended included a BitTorrent search engine, music download sites and online shops selling fake designer gear.

Visitors to the sites which have been shut down were brought to a screen which explains what’s happened, however it appears many of the sites have continued under different domain names.

The situation in England is now considered ‘worrying’ by IT lawyers who don’t believe the police should be given the right to shut down sites without judicial oversight.

It’s now thought that freedom of speech activists are likely to get involved as its thought the police have no business scouring the internet.

Police are hoping to shut down websites that are thought to be engaged in criminal activity, it was heard today.

The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) have made a call to Nominet (the internet registry for .uk domains) to let authorities have domain closing power, a movement they are considering in order to help police work.

Nominet currently do not have any terms and conditions that disallow the use of domains for criminal activity, however following this inquest it will look to add conditions that ban any sites if there are ‘reasonable grounds to believe they are being used to commit a crime.’

This comes in connection with a site police closed down recently after it was seen to be offering advice to those who were photographed taking part in the violent student protests at Millbank Tower.

Over the last year, Nominet have been very responsive in these calls to action and have previously shut down over 1,200 that were breaking UK laws.

Facebook is thriving with malware; it’s like the mud puddle where mosquitoes breed. One fifth of Facebook users are exposed to malware contained in their news feeds, according to security researchers. BitDefender, a security firm has detected infections contained in the news feeds or around 20% of Facebook users.

By simply clicking on an infected news feed link, the malware will be installed into your computer and begin to disrupt files and data. Facebook has taken steps to safeguard privacy and remove malware-containing links, but like every big social networking site it attracts unwanted attention.

The majority of infections are associated with apps written by independent developers, which promise enticements and rewards to make you go “ooh” and “aah” but are actually tricks, enabling ‘users into install the malware’, according to BitDefender.

These apps install malware to spy on users or send messages containing adverts to the users’ contacts. Social network sites are based on a community of people you know and trust, which makes it an attractive ground for malware to flourish.

When most people think about a virus, they think about a fever, chills and maybe even a potential pandemic, but not a computer virus.  Malware, viruses, Trojans and such affect computers every day. It has become so serious, that the government has backed a vaccination scheme to clean up the huge amount of PCs hijacked by cyber criminals.

It was only two years ago, when a Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that computer viruses may have contributed to the Spanair plane crash which killed 154 people in Madrid two years ago. The 12,000 page accident summary report explained that the Spanair central computer was Trojan-infected and therefore failed to trigger an alarm which would have grounded the plane.

Today nuclear power plants are being affected by Stuxnet, a malware murder. While other big organisations fear for new and stronger viruses.

Researchers in Germany and Austria have shown reports on how official help can boost efforts to clean up infected machines. The survey of botnet numbers was performed in an attempt to reveal how many PC’s on a particular network are hijacked.

Botnets are the typical ‘home computer’ network that malicious hackers latch on to and trick the owners through virus ridden email messages or booby-trapped websites.

The results showed a staggering amount of computer networks affected by these vicious malwares. A digital vaccine has been reviewed as a potential solution to helping protect PC’s worldwide.

Google the word ‘email’ and the Hotmail Sign In link is top of the page, closely followed by Gmail and then Yahoo! Mail. An array of choices to suit all, yet there are now more and more demands surrounding the need for a Universal         Inbox.

In an episode of The Office titled ‘WUPHF.com’  (pronounced “woof”) the imaginary attempt at a social media service that “goes to your home phone, cell phone, email, Facebook, Twitter, and home screen – all at the same time”   portrayed the idea of a universal inbox in a hilarious manner.

However more seriously, critics are now looking at Facebook as they enter the messaging arena following their plans to launch a new emailing service. With our social lives already on the site will this new foray overtake the likes of Hotmail? With a built in fan base of 500 million, it’s certainly got a fighting chance

The Jolibook, netbook is making its way into UK stores for this festive season. The name which sounds like a Mr Men character, is powered by Jolicloud 1.1 (a Linux based OS).

Being pitched at £280, the netbook eases spending fears with the financial strain. For the money, you get a 10inch display, 1.5GHz dual-ore Atom N550 processor, and a 250GB hard disk, although as the name of the Jolicloud OS suggests, it’s designed to operate in the cloud and will be HTML5 based.

You can also login with your Facebook credentials to connect to any of your friends who are already Jolicloud users.

This lets you see apps that your friends have already installed or recommended, but there’s also a wider app store which lets you install shortcuts to web apps like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Docs, as well as native apps such as VLC or GIMP.

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At 13-years-old Mark Zuckerberg had experienced the power of AOL Instant Messaging in 1997, the cool, exciting new form of communication.

But thirteen years later, it’s now game over for AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google’s Gmail.

Co-founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is launching a new e-mail service.  The Facebook email will merge texts, online chats and e-mails into one central hub. This will allow users to reply in the way they want on the Social Media site.

The product will simplify how people communicate by merging mobile texts, instant messages, online chat and e-mail into a social inbox. However, speculation suggests that Facebook’s new product would be almost crippling for Gmail, which has had no real competition. Yet AOL disagrees that email is doomed.

The new product will “E-mail remains one of the killer apps on the internet,” said Brad Garlinghouse, AOL’s senior vice president of consumer products.

Mr Zuckerberg said: “traditional e-mail is too slow” and “this is not an e-mail killer”.

Facebook’s new communication system is aimed at ensuring users view the” messages that matter.” The social networking giant will offer a @facebook.com e-mail address to every one of its more than 500 million users.