Man Googles himself to find he is on ‘most wanted’ list
Washington: A man in California was taken aback after he Googled himself to find that he was on the “Most Wanted” list of the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center.
Viatafa of San Leandro, California was surprised by what he saw on the Internet and turned himself in to police. According to Cnet, Viatafa”s presence was requested in connection with a gunplay incident at a party in August.
After his visit to the police station, Viatafa has now been listed as having been captured. Meanwhile, the Californian has been charged with discharging a firearm toward an inhabited dwelling. (ANI)
New Iraqi law could allow girls as young as 8 to be married off
Washington: Iraqi lawmakers are mulling over a new measure that would allow girls as young as 8 years old to be married, and that also mandates wives must give their husbands sex on demand.
Iraqi human rights activist Hana Adwar said that the law represents a crime against humanity and childhood, adding that married underage girls are subjected to physical and psychological suffering, the Washington Times reported.
Current law in the country sets the legal age for marriage at 18, or 15 if a guardian or parent approves.
The new proposed laws are aimed at the majority Shiite population. The measures don’t specifically say that the little girls can marry — but they do omit mentioning the lawful age of marriage while simultaneously allowing for men to divorce girls as young as 8 years, 8 months old.
Critics say that part of the text is an underhanded, backdoor way of giving men in the country the lawful right to marry girls as young as 8.
Meanwhile, another bill mandates that husbands might have sex with their wives whenever they want, with or without the woman’s consent. It also prohibits wives from leaving home without their husbands’ permission. (ANI)
Major browsers fall prey during hacking contest
Washington: Major web browsers were successfully hacked by security researchers who demonstrated the zero-day exploits in the sites during the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver.
The researchers were able to exploit the bugs in Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Flash Player.
According to PC World, a team from French vulnerability research firm Vupen hacked Google Chrome by exploiting a use-after-free vulnerability that affects both the WebKit and Blink rendering engines.
Researchers were also able to hack Chrome”s sandbox protection to execute arbitrary code on the underlying system. The report said that the same team of researchers was able to hack Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, Flash Player and Adobe Reader during the first day of the event.
All the vulnerabilities exploited during Pwn2Own were shared with the vendors of the affected products.
During a side challenge dubbed Pwn4Fun, security researchers from Google competed against researchers from Hewlett-Packard”s DVLabs Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), in which the Google team hacked Apple Safari and the ZDI team hacked IE11 by combining multiple exploits, the report added. (ANI)
Suicidal man saves another life
London: In a fortunate twist of fate, a man attempting suicide off the London bridge in Britain unintentionally alerted authorities to rescue another man who was reportedly drowning in the Thames river.
The authorities sprung into action after a man threatened to commit suicide by leaping off the bridge at around midnight Wednesday, The Telegraph reported on Friday.
To their astonishment, the police and lifeboat crew on the scene, found another man in the water struggling to keep afloat.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) rescued the man in the water who was reportedly suffering from hypothermia.
The 33-year-old rescued man was in a confused state and could not give personal information except for his age nor could he say how he came to be in the river.
Meanwhile, police managed to stop the other distressed man from jumping off the bridge and helped him to safety.
“There were no other boats in the area at the time and I do not think anyone was actually aware he was in the water. Chances are if it had not been for the lifeboat crew launching to the original incident, he would never have been spotted and would have drowned,” Toni Scarr, a lifeboat crew member for RNLI was quoted as saying.
She said the survivor could be confused about his whereabouts due to hypothermia. (IANS)