Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Sonia Gandhi's Name Removed From the List Of Top 20 Rich Politicians!

After a total confusion on things, Huffingston post has removed the name of Sonia Gandhi from the 12th most richest leaders in the world. Huffingston post had named Mrs. Gandhi to be richer than the queen of England in their earlier post.

The Huffington Post report now carries a footnote at the bottom of the article stating, "Sonia Gandhi and the former emir of Qatar Hamid bin Khalifa al-Thani have been removed from this list. Gandhi was originally included based on a listing on a third party site which was subsequently called into question. Our editors have been unable to verify the amount, removed the link, and regret any confusion."

According the list, Sonia Gandhi was worth $2 billion (approximately Rs 12,000 crore). However the survey did not specify any methodology or source of information.

It claimed that the HuffPost World had compiled the list based on available data.

The Congress had reacted angrily to the list and had rubbished the report saying that it is an attempt to malign the image of Sonia Gandhi, who actually leads a simple life.

The report had placed Sonia Gandhi as richer than Elizabeth II, the Queen of England and Bashar Al-Assad, President of Syria.

Huffington Post list of the top 20 richest world leaders (Revised):

1. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia - $40 billion

2. Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand - $30 billion

3. Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei - $20 billion

4. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia - $18 billion

5. Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE - $15 billion

6. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai - $14 billion

7. Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader of North Korea - $5 billion

8. Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechstenstein - $5 billion

9. Mohammed VI, King of Morocco - $2.5 billion

10. Sebastian Pinera, President of Chile - $2.5 billion

13. Albert II, Prince of Monaco - $1 billion

14. Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman - $700 million

15. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea - $600 million

16. Bashar Al-Assad, President of Syria - $550 million

17. Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan - $500 million

18. Elizabeth II, Queen of England - $500 million

19. Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait - $400 million

20. Mswati III, King of Swaziland - $100 million

Source: IBN Live
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Syrian Electronic Army hacks Media Giants and Twitter

SAN FRANCISCO: Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post lost control of some of their websites Tuesday after hackers supporting the Syrian government breached the Australian Internet company that manages many major site addresses.

The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group that has previously attacked media organizations that it considers hostile to the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit for the Twitter and Huffington Post hacks in a series of Twitter messages.

Security experts said electronic records showed that NYTimes.com, the only site with an hours-long outage, redirected visitors to a server controlled by the Syrian group before it went dark.

New York Times Co NYT.N spokeswoman Eileen Murphy tweeted the "issue is most likely the result of a malicious external attack", based on an initial assessment.

The Huffington Post attack was limited to the blogging platform's UK web address. Twitter said the hack led to availability issues for an hour and a half but that no user information was compromised.

The attacks came as the Obama administration considers taking action against the Syrian government, which has been locked for more than two years in an increasingly bloody struggle against rebels.

In August, hackers promoting the Syrian Electronic Army simultaneously targeted websites belonging to CNN, Time and the Washington Post by breaching a third party service used by those sites.

The Syrian Electronic Army, or SEA, managed to gain control of the sites by penetrating MelbourneIT, an Australian Internet service provider that sells and manages domain names including Twitter.com and NYTimes.

Officials at The New York Times, which identified MelbourneIT as its domain name registrar and the primary hacking victim, warned its employees to stop sending sensitive e-mails from their corporate accounts.

MebourneIT spokesman Tony Smith said that login credentials from one of its resellers had been used improperly.

Once MelbourneIT was notified, he said, the company restored the correct domain name settings, changed the password on the compromised account, and locked the records to prevent further alterations.

"We are currently reviewing our logs to see if we can obtain information on the identity of the party that has used the reseller credentials, and we will share this information with the reseller and any relevant law enforcement bodies," Smith said. "We will also review additional layers of security that we can add to our reseller accounts."

Twitter did not respond to requests for comment. In a blog post, the company said "it appears DNS (domain name system) records for various organizations were modified, including one of Twitter's domains used for image serving, Twimg.com. Viewing of images and photos was sporadically impacted."