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Pak hacks 734
Websites
THE
Indian government said it is aware of Pakistanis hacking or defacing
Indian Internet Websites during the last one year and that the total
number of sites hacked this year so far stood at 734. "The number
of Websites that have been hacked or defaced is difficult to quantify.
It is even more difficult to give the number that have been hacked by
Pakistan or some Pakistani organisations since it is not always possible
to track the source of attack to an IP address emanating from
Pakistan," Su Thirunavukkarsar, minister of state for
communication, said in written reply in Lok Sabha. According to one
estimate, the number of Websites hacked this year so far is 734.
Net boom in China
China’s Internet
sector continues to boom with 68 million Internet users as of the end of
June, 8.9 million more than half a year ago, according to latest
official statistics. The number of China’s Netizens now constitutes
5.3 per cent of its 1.3 billion population, the China Internet network
information centre (CNNIC) said in its latest assessment of the country’s
Internet industry. The report said China had 25.72 million computers
connected to the Internet and 473,900 websites, including 250,651 under
the domain name of "cn", registering respective increases of
23.5 per cent, 27.5 per cent and 39.6 per cent over half a year ago,
according to the CNNIC report.
Kidney seller
convicted
A German court has
sentenced a man for trying to sell one of his kidneys on the Internet to
a four-month suspended jail sentence and fined him `80 2,000 ($ 2,300),
authorities have said. A spokesman for the court in Kassel said the 48
year-old Austrian mechanic was accused of violating laws on illegal
organ trading for offering his kidney as a "blood purification
organ" online at a starting price of `80 66,500. He was hoping to
use the proceeds to ease his girlfriend’s financial worries, said
court spokesman Theodor Weber. A journalist later spotted the advert,
and posed as a potential buyer before exposing the unusual
money-spinning ruse. The man made a full confession in court and said he
was pleased he still had both kidneys.
Mind-controlled
wheelchair
Swiss and Spanish
scientists are developing a mind-controlled wheelchair that could one
day give severely paralysed patients new independence. The system will
use electrodes embedded in a skullcap worn by the patient to transmit
messages from the brain to a computer that passes them on to the chair
through a wireless link. "Early trials using a robot indicate that
with just two days’ training it is as easy to control the
robot with the human mind as it is manually," New Scientist
magazine said. The system has been designed by Jose Millan of the Dalle
Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence in Martigny,
Switzerland, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne and the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research in
Barcelona. The scientists are testing the system with a simple, wheeled
robot using commands to turn left, right or go forward. It also includes
in-built intelligence to ensure the robot does not collide with
anything.
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