It is a matter of gratification that the NISCORT, a mass communication Institute in Ghaziabad, in proximity to N. Delhi has come up with an innovative idea of getting its students acquinted with the art of the New Media or web 2.0. The students, drawn from all over the country have evinced keen interest. This institute is run by The Catholic Bishop Conference of India (CBCI).
MySpace has surrounded the US community like crazy, but whatever the craze might be, this website did good as it helped the police in US to track criminals through the profiles in MySpace, which were there in the friends list of the victim who was raped by the criminals in a party.
The crime ranged from rape to robbery of $US40,000 ($A56,260) in electronics, jewellery, clothing and other items. As per detective Ali Bartley:
At some point, the victim was no longer aware of what was happening, and she was sexually assaulted. Primarily, we pulled up her friends list. It helped us identify some of the players
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So what do you have to do to find happiness? - Sunday Times Online Asks.
Reporting on the new science of feeling good, the article by Dorothy Wade points out that “Misery makes people self-obsessed and inactive.”
What makes us happy?
Gleaning from survey,Miss Wade concludes that “Marriage does, pets do, but children don’t seem to . Youth and old age are the happiest times. Money does not add much to happiness”
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A report released by the U.K. government and GetSafeOnline lately has revealed the fact that our of every 10 internet users, more than one fell prey to online fraud last year. Startlingly, the total number of the victims was 3.5 million with each suffering a loss of £875.
The reasons for such huge fraud were as simple as that. Some users didn’t install up-to-the-minute security software. Some used the same password for different sites. Such downsides easily catch the eyes of the internet baddies. Many users accepted that they replied to the spam mails in order to get off the mailing lists.
Well, 46 percent of the users surveyed exposed they used no anti-spyware software, while 7 percent said they didn’t even use any anti-virus software. Half of the polled users said that they were themselves responsible for the scene while some blamed the banks or internet firms for the increasing online fraud.
The report dubbed ‘Internet Safety: The State of the Nation’ revealed that 12 per cent of internet users fell as quarry to fraud last year. Six per cent of internet users suffered fraud shopping online while four per cent fell victims to bank card fraud.
Tony Neate, the managing director of Get Safe Online said:
If we all take greater care to protect our personal information online, we can reduce the majority of these criminal activities. Our message is that each one of us has to take greater personal responsibility for our own online security.
Visit Get Safe Online to know more about online safety.
China now holds the number one position in the world to have the largest number of infected PCs by Malicious Botnets. Security company Prolexic states that Asia only contains 50 percent of the world’s total infected computers. The top-notch reason for swift rise in Botnets in China is high usage of pirate softwares. Moreover, online criminals and internet baddies exploit the weak cybercrime legislation.
If you commit a cybercrime in China, you face execution. If you do the same thing outside of China, the government won’t bat an eyelid.
Invaders have started finding new tactics around many common DDoS defence systems and are adding that potential to their Botnets. The list of top six infected countries of the world includes five from Asia only with US at number two.
Via: PCPRO
To hamper and battle online pornography and other illegal activities, China has decided to put two virtual police officers in charge of a patrol that will see to such things. As per the reports, the two virtual officers, a man and a woman ‘will appear either on motorcycles, in a car or on foot, at the bottom of users’ computer screens every 30 minutes to remind them of Internet security’. These two virtual police officers will be scrutinizing news portals, web sites and all online forums that are based in Beijing. These surveillance officers won’t only keep an eye on the porn sites but also catch up websites that promote superstition, gambling, fraud and other such illicit things.
Till now, the Internet surveillance centre of the Beijing municipal public security bureau claims to have closed some 244 websites, 40 online pornographic novels and 128,000 Web pages dealing with pornographic materials. Zhao Hongzhi, deputy chief of the centre said, ‘We have achieved visible results in recent months but there is still a long way to go’. The service also enables users themselves to complain and report any such illegal activities by clicking on the pop-up icons with which they’ll be connected to Internet surveillance centre.
However, despite keen watch over sites, pornography is rampant. It must be noted that China bars signals or black outs TV screens, if and when CNN, BBC or any such networks take up topics which are related to China like Tibet, Taiwan or media liberty. The whole commotion is an after effect of the announcement that was made by Chinese President Hu Jintao, in April stating that measures would soon be taken up to get the country free of such ‘unhealthy’ content.
With China in the lead, I am sure the example will be soon followed by many other nations.
Source: Reuters
A worst attack on internet servers was witnessed on Monday when three of the Internet’s 13 DNS “root servers” (responsible for controlling global internet traffic) were intensely smacked by a remote-controlled network of thousands of zombie computers. The so-called “denial of service” attack was intended to engulf many of the root servers with colossal amounts of traffic.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at UK anti-virus firm Sophos stated the attack to be “the most serious attack against these domain name servers.” Last time such kind of attack hit the servers in 2002 when all the 13 root servers fell prey to it and the internet traffic came down radically.
The investigation in under process and some reports have traced the attacks to be from Korea but Cluley cited that this is not a sign that all the offenders are from Korea.
Via: newscientisttech
Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9-inch inch herdsman confirmed last year by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s tallest living man saved two dolphins in northeast China by reaching inside of them with his 3-foot arms to remove plastic they had swallowed, from the edge of their pool at an aquarium in Liaoning provinc
When the manager of the Royal Jidi Ocean World aquarium found that his dolphins had become sick after swallowing the plastics, they tried to remove it with their arms, but people with shorter arms could not reach the plastic and any attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because the dolphins’ stomachs contracted in response to the instruments.
Their very own Bao, 54, tallest man on the earth was requested to help which he did very successfully. Some very small plastic pieces are still left in the dolphins’ stomachs, but, a local doctor says there is nothing to worry about as the dolphins will be able to digest these and they are expected to recover soon.
And, all thanks to the man who is very very tall.
Via: China Daily
