Daily 2012, Issue 1
Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Bangalore
27 November, 2012
N. Murthy talks to students Pg 3
RTI activists protest killing Pg 4
More take to Emu farming Pg 2
Sex selective abortion cases cause concern in Karnataka
Udita Chaturvedi
Dalai Lama:“Time for the 21st century generation”
The 14th guru encourages young generation to focus more on peace and tranquility
Udita Chaturvedi His Holiness, the Dalai Lama says he hopes that modern education taught more affection, warmth, secularism and unity. His Holiness, said: “The British brought modern education to India,
but India had had education for thousands of years. Earlier, more Indian education systems taught about imparting moral values to the people, but the new institutions just care about the brain.” The Dalai Lama inaugurated a painting exhibition, ‘In the footsteps
of Buddha’ and released “Santa gets Bangalored,” authored by Puneeta Khatri, earlier this afternoon in ITC Windsor Manor. His Holiness said he was older and thus, had had a lot of experiences. He shared stories about two of his friends who had had
taught him great things. He said: “I have a billionaire friend, he can buy everything but he is very unhappy. Another Muslim friend of mine told me that Islam teaches love Allah and all creations of Allah, which is lovely and so true.” He believes that manmade problems need to be reduced as early as possible for the world to be a more harmonious and peaceful place for all. His Holiness said: “We pay too much attention on color, nationality and race. These differences are secondary because basically we are all same human beings.” He added: “The twentieth century has gone. Our generation is now ready to say bye bye. It is the age of the newer twenty-first century generation. Only 12 years of this century have passed, the remaining are yet to come. They have the opportunity to create a better century.” The 14th Dalai Lama believes Buddha nature exists in everyone and can never be lost, no matter how deeply it may be covered over by anger or greed.
Reshma Tarwani More than a thousand sex-selective abortions have been performed in Bangalore in the last month. Every 77 minutes, there is at least one abortion that has been conducted in rural Karnataka. Bangalore alone has more than 4000 scanning centers in areas like Ram Nagar, J.P Nagar, and Jay Nagar. K S Vimla, Vice President, All India Democratic Women’s Association said: “The majority of gynecologists have their private clinics which are hidden inside their homes. We have been living in Ram Nagar for the last 10 years and in the last month we caught five private clinics performing the procedure illegally, in Ram Nagar alone. According to the recent study of institute of Social and Economic changes, more than 2000 scanning centers have been found.
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Caught on the web: Hacking cases spike Bangalore weather report Temp: 72 F Humidity: 78% Wind: 7 mph from East Weather forecast: 20% chance of rain Sunrise: 6.23 am Moonrise: 4.14 pm Temp to go up to a max of 83 F
Sensex Report Sensex: 18,537.01 up by 30.44 (0.16%) Nifty: 5635.90 up by 9.30 (0.17%)
Over the last five years, hacking incidents in India have increased from 552 to 13,301, posing a serious threat to internet and mobile users across India. Easy online access to hacking techniques is one of the major reasons for this jump in figures. Advanced technology and greater dependency on technology are also contributing factors. In 2011, Indian Computers Emergency Response Team (CERTIn) handled more than 13,000 incidents related to hacking, with malware and virus attacks being the most common. Renowned ethical hacker, Ankit Fadia, describes virus and malwares for the layman as “basically any file that harms the system. It may delete data, slow the system, force the system to crash or allow spying”. He added: “Trojan is the most common and harmful virus in the internet domain right now. It allows the hacker to control someone else’s system.” Internet has made hacking much easier today than it used to be a decade ago. There are plenty of software available online for all kinds
Sidharth Shekhar
Udita Chaturvedi
of hacking. Fadia said: “There are a lot of books and courses available today, and seminars on ethical hacking are frequently held. When I started, I had to either order books from the US or had to research online. Otherwise I just had to experiment on my own.” Technology has become a major part of an individual’s life today.
Most people have email accounts and smartphones. And though it is changing and improving lives, it can be dangerous as well. “Whatever we’re doing online is being recorded somewhere or the other and it can be misused. For example, online banking has a lot of advantages for the common man but at the same time hackers can access bank accounts and steal the money
as well,” said Fadia. He added: “Anything can be hacked today. For example, FBI website gets hacked almost every month, Microsoft’s website got hacked and my website got hacked. So there is nothing as 100 per cent security. The more you use technology, the more threats there will be.” While Fadia suggests antiviruses, firewall protection and anti-spywares for individual users, he also suggests that individuals and companies need to become more aware of the threats online. Fadia said: “To fight against any kind of hacking, companies need to implement security audit and increase the budget for buying security software.” No website, no matter how big the brand name, is not completely secure today. “Pay Pal, EBay, LinkedIn get hacked, so an Indian website like Flipkart or any other cannot be guaranteed to be ‘safe’,” said Fadia. India requires 77,000 ethical hackers every year but produces only 20-25% of this requirement, states a NASCOM report. Fadia says the Indian cyber laws are good but are not implemented.