12-year-old Canadian boy hacks gov't websites

 

A 12-year-old Canadian boy has pleaded guilty to hacking government websites – he knocked some of them out for days – and causing damages of about $60,000 in an incident that dates back to spring 2012.
The fifth grader, who is too young to be named, hacked websites belonging to the Montreal Police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health and the Chilean government, according to reports. The child exploited security flaws to gain access to databases, flooded websites with denial-of-service attacks and defaced websites.

Forget Wi-Fi,Say hello to Li-Fi :Chinese scientists

 Beijing: Chinese scientists have successfully developed a new cheaper way of getting connected to internet by using signals sent through light bulbs instead of radio frequencies as in 'Wi-Fi', a move expected to radically change process of online connectivity.

 

Four computers can be connected to internet through one- watt LED bulb using light as a carrier instead of traditional radio frequencies, as in Wi-Fi, said Chi Nan, an information technology professor with Shanghai's Fudan University.

 

Under the new discovery dubbed as 'Li-Fi', a light bulb with embedded microchips can produce data rates as fast as 150 megabits per second, which is speedier than the average broadband connection in China, said Chi, who leads a Li-Fi research team including scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Facebook hires two IIIT Allahabad boys for Rs 60 lakh

ALLAHABAD: IT majors, including popular social networking sites Facebook and Google, refused to turn up for recruitment at country's premium technical institutes like IITs this year as per reports.

The news may sound disappointing for some but on the contrary, the silver lining is that the same firms have chosen to pick their poor cousins from National Institute of Technology (NITs), offering them handsome pay package of around Rs 1 crore per annum.
Two students of the country's premium Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A), have bagged lucrative job offers of Rs 60 lakh per annum from Facebook, while another student has been chosen as student ambassador of top notch IT firm Google.
IIIT-A director M D Tiwari said that Ankit Gupta and Yogesh Sharma, both final year students of BTech, have been recruited by Facebook while their batchmate Divanshu Garg has been chosen as the Google student ambassador to represent Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad for the upcoming academic year.
A statement issued by Sunil Rao, country head, Outreach Programs, Google India Pvt Ltd, stated that unprecedented response and excitement was witnessed to the Google Student Ambassador programme, with over 1,750 candidates from more than 100 towns and cities across India vying for GSA title.

Tiwari said that various companies visited the campus of IIIT-Allahabad during the session of 2012-2013. Hundred per cent of BTech students have been placed by nearly dozen of companies with more than 70% of the students getting starting package of Rs 5.5 lakh per annum and the highest package ranging to Rs 60 lakh pa.

Bathinda man booked for uploading clip on Youtube

The Punjab Police have registered a case under Section 295-A (hurting religious sentiments) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act against a Bathinda resident for uploading a video clip of the assault on Kahan Singh Pannu on YouTube. "The case of cyber crime has been registered for hurting religious sentiments," a spokesman said here.

In the FIR lodged at an SAS Nagar police station, the accused has been identified as Baljinder Singh Kanakwalia of Kanakwal village in Bathinda district.

It is yet to be ascertained whether he had a mischievous intention behind uploading the clip or he did it only to make the incident public.

The footage showed that three of the four attackers were turbaned Sikhs, two of them baptised with flowing beards, and they kept beating Pannu even after the officer lost his turban in the melee.

It was Punjab Cooperative Bank managing director Kamaljit Singh Sangha who came to his rescue along with jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). Sangha was accompanying Pannu and another official from the education department for overseeing the rescue operations.

Samajwadi Party leader files complaint against fake Facebook profile

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh minister for urban development Mohammad Azam Khan on Thursday said that he has filed a complaint with the director general of police against a fake Facebook account in his name on which inflammatory statements had been posted.

Khan informed chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Union minister for home affairs Sushil Shinde and called for immediate action.

Ramgarh student drowns while taking picture 'for Facebook'

RAMGARH: A student drowned on Monday in the Damodar river flash flood while he was taking photographs to upload on Facebook.

The dead, Shyam Sharma, was a resident of Golpar locality situated on the banks of the river. Sharma had recently passed his matric examination and was seeking admission in Chhotanagpur College. He used to take keen interest in surfing the internet and social networking sites like Facebook.

Sonu Sharma, his elder brother said, "My brother, along with his friends, went to the river to bathe. But, the flash flood caught his attention and he wanted to take his own photograph with the high waves of the river as the backdrop. Shyam asked his friends to click him riding the waves and he stood on a high rock in the middle of the river. But, the water level suddenly rose; drowning him."

Human Rights Activist From India Arrested over Facebook post

Police in India's Andhra Pradesh state have arrested a human rights activist for allegedly posting defamatory remarks on Facebook against a local politician.

Jaya Vindhyalaya was arrested in Prakasam district on the complaint of legislator Krishna Mohan, police said.

She was produced in court and was remanded in jail for 12 days.

Last year, India issued new guidelines making it harder for the police to arrest people for comments on internet.

The move followed outrage after a series of arrests of people for their comments on Facebook and other internet sites.

Ms Vindhyalaya is the president of People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) in Andhra Pradesh.

She is lodged in a jail at Ongole and could not be reached for comments. Her lawyers have applied for bail.

She has been arrested under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act which is sweeping in its powers - it can send a person to jail for three years for sending an email or other electronic message that "causes annoyance or inconvenience".

Ms Vindhyalaya has defended her remarks on Facebook, senior police officer K Raghurami Reddy told the BBC.

Before her arrest, Ms Vindhyalaya had alleged that Mr Mohan was targeting her due to "political enmity" and had "threatened the local people against deposing before a team of PUCL which had gone on a fact-finding mission against the legislator".

Mr Mohan has denied the charges.

Police say they have written to Facebook to remove the "objectionable material" from her page.

'abusive' comments against Congress leader posted on Facebook case: filed

Kerala Police have registered a case under the IT Act on a complaint that 'abusive' comments have been posted on Facebook against the state Mahila Congress chief for backing Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien in the Suryanelli gang-rape case.

The case under Section 66 A of the IT Act had been registered based on a complaint by Mahila Congress chief Bindu Krishna that abusive comments along with her picture had been posted on the social media and investigation was on, a cyber cell official of the Kerala Police said in Thiruvananthapuram.

Investigation was progressing and so far no action had been initiated against anybody, the official said.

When contacted, Krishna said she had submitted the complaint to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who forwarded it to the cyber cell for investigation.

Krishna said she was only stating the party stand on Kurien issue, but the comments that appeared in the social media were "highly defamatory" with a view to "tarnishing" her image as a woman.

"As per the information available so far, the comments were posted from a fake ID and police were trying to trace their origin. Police are in contact with Facebook authorities," Krishna said.

The comments were noticed on February 4 and by then itself more 140 people were found to have shared them, she said.

Kurien was named by the Suryanelli victim as one of those who had sexually assaulted her in 1996. The Supreme Court had exonerated the Congress leader of the charges.

The victim recently wrote to her advocate seeking to explore the possibility of filing a review plea in the Supreme Court for a fresh probe against Kurien, triggering calls for his resignation. Kurien has maintained that he had been cleared of the charges by the apex court.
source-DNA 

Court closes case against two girls:Facebook Row

THANE: A criminal case filed against two girls for posting a comment on Facebook on the bandh after the death of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on November 17 last year has been closed after police dropped charges against them.

The Palghar sessions court yesterday accepted the police closure report seeking dropping of charges against the two girls.

The Boisar police had filed a 'C' summary report in December to close the criminal case on the grounds that it was 'neither true nor false'.

However, complainant Shiv Sena member Bhushan Sankhe's counsel yesterday said they will challenge the order and file a criminal revision appeal before the Palghar sessions court.

Software Launched to check Cyber Crime :Nodia Police

NOIDA: To ensure cyber security in the city, Noida police directed 70 cyber cafe owners to install a new software that will secure their computers from being misused.

Noida police in association with Ideacts Innovations today launched a new software 'iCafe Manager' to be installed in computers to check cyber crimes.
Source-TOI