Car hacking moves from theoretical to reality
Security researchers have warned that car hacking is starting to move from the realm of the theoretical to reality, thanks to new wireless technologies and evermore dependence on computers to make cars safer, more energy-efficient and modern, reports CNet News.com.
"Now there are computerised systems and they have control over critical components of cars like gas, brakes, etc," says Adriel Desautels, CTO and president of NetraGard. "There is a premature reliance on technology."
The researchers do not intend to be alarmist; they're merely trying to figure out what the security holes are and alert the industry to them so they can be fixed, says Wenyuan Xu, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina.
Google, Skype face India ban
India has toughened its scrutiny of telecoms firms with a directive demanding "access to everything", reveals the BBC.
An Indian Home Ministry official told the BBC that "any company with a telecoms network should be accessible".
"It could be Google or Skype, but anyone operating in India will have to provide data," he said.
Game-addicted man scores rare win
A Hawaii man, who sued a company over his crippling addiction to the computer game Lineage II, has gone where few litigants have managed to go, defeating the end-user agreement that said he had no right to bring the case to begin with, writes The Register.
Craig Smallwood sued Lineage II maker NC Interactive late last year, claiming his compulsive urge to play the game caused him to sink more than 20 000 hours into it.
As a result, he had to be hospitalised and continues to suffer extreme and serious emotional distress and depression that requires treatment and therapy three times a week, according to court documents.
Researchers to create next-generation Internet
A team at the University of Illinois is working with researchers from UCLA and other institutions to develop a new Internet architecture called Named Data Networking (NDN), says Computing.co.uk.
Computer science professor Tarek Abdelzaher at the University of Illinois and his team are working to transform the Internet and create a new, more content-focused architecture.
They aim to prove how NDN can simplify development of these applications as well as make them more efficient and reliable.
Share