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

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.

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

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

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

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

From their site:
“Shelter-in-Place in an Emergency

There are six basics you should stock for your home: water, food, first aid supplies, clothing and bedding, tools and emergency supplies, and special items. Keep the items that you would most likely need during an evacuation in an easy-to carry container–suggested items are marked with an asterisk(*). Possible containers include a large, covered trash container, a camping backpack, or a duffle bag.”

The main Red Cross Site
PDF version of the Disaster Supplies Kit
Personal Workplace Disaster Supplies Kit
Personal Workplace Disaster Supplies Kit

The younger one aged 20 years has been held responsible for developing Toxbot and another Trojan called Wayphisher. The other one aged 28 years helped to spread the Trojan horses. Both the perpetrators were arrested lat year in the month of October.

One of the main threats to internet in the current time are Botnets. Though authorities are doing darn good to keep a tab on such malicious activities, it’s getting hard to add a full stop since internet baddies are using more and more refined technology and tactics.

Via: Cnetnews

It is still not clear what material was used to construct the eye, but it seems that it has been made of natural tar mixed with animal fat.
The thinnest capillaries on the eyeball have been made with golden wires with a thickness of less than one millimeter. The pupil of the eye has been placed in the center of the eyeball and some parallel lines forming an almond pattern are seen around the pupil. The eyeball has two holes in its two sides, which were used for fixing the eye to the eye socket.

It is unimaginable to even begin to think how they achieved so much without even a bare necessity as electricity.

Covering an area of 150 hectares, the site was one of the world’s largest cities at the dawn of the urban era. It was built circa 3200 BC and destroyed some time around 2100 BC. The city had four stages of civilization and was burnt down three times. Since it was not rebuilt after the last time it was burnt down, it has been named the Burnt City.

Studies are currently underway to glean more information about the woman.

Excavation of such sites and their discoveries make us wonder the heights that our mankind would have reached, had the many civilizations not been regularly destroyed by our evil deeds.

Via: Tehran Times

Moreover, these carriers can get familiar to each other as simple hotel guests and that is pretty easy since they all are under a single covering. For your info, when the December 2006 earthquake hit Taiwan and made all the voice data to stop by splitting undersea fiber optic cables, One Wilshire re-routed some of the Internet and voice traffic with their facility within a few days.

Via: BoingBoing

Making a hit list of 300 students of their school and some famous personalities have landed 6 girls of rural high school of Tennessee in trouble.

The girls have been charged with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and were taken to juvenile facility.

School authorities discovered the list from the trash can and it had names of almost 300 persons ranging from students, faculty members and famous personalities like Oprah, Tom cruise and even Energizer Bunny was mentioned in the list.

School Principal Tommy Layne said at first he considered it to be a joke but the reality hit him when the authorities found word ‘Kill’ in the 9th grader MySpace pages and posts.
Principal Layne said he came to know about this when a visibly shaken student came with his grandmother and said that his name has appeared on the hit list.

The Police Chief of Dunlap where the trail will take place, Clint Huth did not give much detail but said the postings were like ‘Let’s kill these people’.

Already the education system in USA is on tenterhooks after the recent spate of school shootings that have claimed many lives but the present case can be a case of a bad joke but authorities jumping the gun.

The rural high school has 600 total wards in various classes and students are scared when the list became public. Many students chose to stay home and the court hearing is scheduled for Friday.

Via: CNN