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MONTREAL, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ - KRMC dba Cogito Media Group (OTCBB: KRMC.OB) is proud to introduce a diversified catalogue of books for spring and summer release. "We will be releasing over a dozen new books in the U.S., Canada and France. These titles demonstrate our unique capacity as a multilingual publishing house to distribute authors internationally in both print and digital form," said Pierre Turgeon KRMC-Cogito CEO. KRMC-Cogito's 2011 catalog offers compelling genre...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual misconduct, a British court judge ruled on Thursday.In his ruling, Judge Howard Riddle declared that the charges being brought against the 39-year-old Assange by two women were extraditable offenses, and that a warrant issued by Swedish law enforcement personnel was valid.According to Michael Holden of Reuters, "Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange about allegations of sexual...

A Sacramento, California-based computer security company has withdrawn from an industry conference after receiving threats of real-world violence from a group of hackers that had previously launched cyberattacks against them.A subsidiary of the HBGary Inc. had been scheduled to give a presentation regarding the group of hackers collectively known as Anonymous at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.However, in a statement released on the company's website, officials from the firm...

On Tuesday, a federal judge was to hear arguments on a court order directing microblogging site Twitter to hand over information on users connected to Wikileaks in a case pitting privacy advocates against federal prosecutors. The court order was handed down in December, but unsealed February 9 in order to allow users of the social networking site to have an opportunity to appeal the decisions. "This is an outrageous attack by the Obama administration on the privacy and free speech rights...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday that the United States would boost support for global Internet freedom, as citizens increasingly turn to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to organize demonstrations throughout North Africa and the Middle East.In her second major speech in the past year on the subject of Internet restrictions, Clinton said the recent demonstrations show how technology can promote "political, social, and economic change" or "slow or...

KYIV, Ukraine, February 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today a US based animation company Mupotoon LLC announced the release of the first ever animated series for iPhone, which will bring the iPhone users a hilarious, sidesplitting tongue-in-cheek look at the world's biggest political news of the day. It's a short animated spoof on global leaders and events shown through the mix of music, politics and cartoons. The first episode of Mupotoon, now available to iPhone users through iTunes...

Would-be leakers, activists and journalists who have worked with the site say that WikiLeak's ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programmer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity. A source familiar with the contents of a new book told Reuters that the details of the breakdown are contained in the book, penned by estranged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange collaborator Daniel Domscheit-Berg which is due to be published on Friday. The source familiar...

The computer security firm McAfee Inc. said in a report this week that hackers working in China broke into the computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies to steal bidding plans and other critical proprietary information. The report declined to identify the five known companies that had been hacked and said that another seven or so had also been broken into but could not be identified. "It ... speaks to quite a sad state of our critical infrastructure security. These...

A US Judge will hear arguments next week over the US government's labors to get Twitter to release personal information on the accounts of three people with ties to whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The government's efforts to gain access to the Twitter information have been challenged by a number of groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The three WikiLeaks supporters under investigation are Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta...

NORWALK, Conn., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Defentect Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DFTC), a developer and provider of immediate response and intelligent messaging software solutions, issued today its reaction to the recent news concerning intelligence released by WikiLeaks that the international terrorist network al-Qaeda, is aggressively working to secure the materials and individuals necessary to build a radioactive "dirty bomb." Defentect Group has long been aware of the reality...