|  |  |  | | | | | News | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was a forgettable return to the cricket field for someone considered India's [ Images ] biggest hope for a revival against England [ Images ].Virender Sehwag [ Images ] was dismissed early in India's tour game against Northamptonshire at the County Ground on Friday.- Team India's younger lot must show more zeal The 32-year-old opener was trapped leg before by Dave Burton in the seventh over of the morning. The batsman paid the price for not offering a shot to an incoming delivery. He scored only eight.Sehwag, who had not played any form of cricket in three months, was making his first appearance on the tour, having missed the first two Tests because of injury.The swashbuckling batsman is expected to reignite the Indian challenge, beginning with the third Test at Birmingham next week.Meanwhile, Gautam Gambhir [ Images ] and Zaheer Khan [ Images ] were also included in the team for the two-day game, in a bid to get them match fit for Edgbaston.Opener Gambhir is leading the side even though skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni [ Images ] is part of the team. He is unlikely to keep wickets for entire duration of the match, as reserve 'keeper Wriddhiman Saha is also in the team.Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ], Rahul Dravid [ Images ] and Praveen Kumar [ Images ] are rested.Pragyan Ojha [ Images ] and Virat Kohli [ Images ], who replaced the injured Harbhajan Singh [ Images ] and Yuvraj Singh [ Images ], however, were not fielded for the gameThe game assumes importance for leg-spinner Amit Mishra [ Images ], who is likely to take Harbhajan's place in the third Test.The match is a 100-over-a-side game with 90 scheduled to be bowled during the day. Each team can field 12 players.Indians: Gautam Gambhir (capt), Virender Sehwag, Abhinav Mukund, mahendra Singh Dhoni, vvS Laxman, Suresh Raina [ Images ], Wriddhiman Saha, Sreesanth [ Images ], Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel [ Images ] and Ishant Sharma [ Images ].Northamptonshire: MB Loye, NJ O'Brien, RA White, RI Newton, DJG Sales (capt), Dj Willey, D Murphy, PM Best, D Burton, LM Daggett, L Evans and T Brett.  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A recent surge in high-profile hacker attacks is raising fresh concerns about computer and government security, as well as questions about the limits of an older generation of security software.
This week security company McAfee, released details of a five-year long cyber attack campaign that targeted the networks of 72 organizations, governments, and businesses around the world.
The United Nations, governments in Canada, the U.S., Taiwan, India, South Korea, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Olympic Committee, and an array of defense contractors and high-tech firms were victims of the attacks, which McAfee has dubbed "Operations Shady Rat."
"I'm glad they published the paper because the general public probably doesn't really understand how pervasive these attacks are," said Chester Wisniewski, senior security adviser with the IT security company Sophos.
"This is happening to everywhere, even to people who have the resources and knowledge that they should be able to defend themselves."
California-based McAfee expressed surprised at the scope and sophistication of the attack.
What is being done with the data is still unknown, but if even a fraction of it is used to copy or steal intellectual property, "the loss represents a massive economic threat," Dmitri Alperovitch, wrote in a 14-page report released Wednesday.
The Montreal-based Anti-Doping Agency later issued a statement expressing skepticism that its system had been hacked.
"At this stage, WADA has no evidence from its security experts of the intrusions as listed by McAfee and the Agency has yet to be convinced that they took place," the group said in a release.
"Lots of organizations have been hacked and don't realize it," said David Skillicorn, professor at the Queen's University school of computing
"You're not getting attacked by kids who live in their parents' basements but by sophisticated well-trained experts who have a lot of time and energy to devote to finding a way in."
McAfee said it obtained material from a command and control server, a kind of central hub where the hackers store their ill-gotten information.
The attack used a method known as spear-phishing. Hackers select a high-level target in an organization and then craft a personalized email, perhaps with reference to an upcoming vacation or meeting, which would prompt him or her to open an attachment, which contains malware.
"Lots of people now know you shouldn't open an attachment on a random email. But this looks like an email that they should open the attachment on and they do," Skillicorn said. "There's nothing that McAfee or anyone else can do to prevent that. It's not a technical problem."
Without question, human behaviour is the weakest link in the computer security chain, Wisniewski said. Our willingness to share details of our lives on social media sites such as Facebook exacerbates the problem.
"The lack of privacy today makes it easier for people to trick us," he said.
"These are tools and you still have to be a craftsman and know how to use them," Wisniewski added, referring to security software. "This area is growing so quickly that a lot of people moving into the security and technology business don't know how to use the tools properly, and that's a good hole for the hackers to take advantage of."
None of the recent attacks tied to hacker groups such as Anonymous and Lulz Security could have been repelled by traditional antivirus programs or firewall software, experts say. That's giving a boost to upstart rivals, which are developing new ways to safeguard data.
"It sure feels like security Armageddon, and that's what we're hearing from a lot of customers," said George Kurtz, chief technology officer at McAfee, now part of Intel Corp.
Startups such as Q1 Labs Inc. and Palo Alto Networks Inc. are working on more advanced approaches to firewalls, early intrusion detection and around-the-clock systems monitoring.
"Security 1.0 was about locking down fixed devices," said Brent Bracelin, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Oregon. Now that everyone brings their own device to work, companies have to adapt, he said. "We don't see an easy path for the Symantecs and the Intel/McAfees of the world to evolve beyond the security 1.0 technology to the next-generation market."
The choice of targets led McAfee to speculate that the hack was orchestrated by a single country bent on more than simple economic gain.
Speculation immediately centred on China, which has routinely been blamed for and denied involvement in state-sponsored hacking campaigns.
In February, the federal Finance Department, the Treasury Board, and Defence Research and Devleopment Canada, a civilian arm of Canada's Department of National Defence, were thought to have been compromised by China-based hackers.  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rajul Hegde in Mumbai Shibani Dandekar, who was last seen during the Indian Premier League, will play host to India's Sexiest Bachelors on Big CBS Spark. Some of the hunkiest celebrities will be seen on the show like John Abraham, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Abhay Deol, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kholi and Sidhartha Mallya.Viewers will then vote for the top contenders through SMS votes, from which the winner will be selected.Shibani tells Rajul Hegde what to expect from the show when it premieres on Indian television on August 6. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Interview By: Editor-in-Chief: Anita Chatterjee Additional reporting by: Meena RupaniAs if a beautiful face, hot body and being a talented actress isn't enough, Bollywood babe Priyanka Chopra can sing to and Chopra has just been signed to music label, DesiHits! Universal, to share her musical talent with North America. R& B sensation Jay Sean made us proud being one of the few South Asians to break into the American music industry, and Priyanka Chopra will be the first Bollywood actress to be signed to a mainstream label agreement. I sat down with the international superstar to discuss her upcoming English album, how the label agreement came about, and the impact her agreement with Universal Music Group(UMG), the world's leading music company, and Desi Hits! will have on her now Bollywood and Hollywood career. As part of the music agreement, Priyanka will be releasing her debut album in North America through DesiHits! and Interscope Records and internationally through Island Records in the UK. So how did Priyanka get into singing? She says, "My dad is a singer so I had it as a hobby. It's something that's always been a passion. Acting is something I got into accidentally and I didn't think I could do anything else once I started acting." Priyanka explained to us that her dad is giving her feedback every step of the way, he gives his opinion on the lyrics and the vocals and of course Priyanka is taking the advice from her very musical papa. How did this music deal come about? "I got introduced to DesiHits! by my good friends Salim-Sulaiman and they were telling me to meet these people, at first I didn't think anything about it because I get a lot of offers like this. Andrew( Andrew Bromfield, universal head of international marketing) and David ( David Joseph, CEO of Universal Music, UK) came to meet me in Mumbai and it just seemed like the right thing to do." Priyanka will be managed by none other than Troy Carter, CEO of Atom Factory, who also manages pop icon Lady Gaga. Priyanka is the first artist to be signed to the DesiHits! Universal label founded by DesiHits! CEO Anjula Acharia Bath.How does Priyanka feel about being managed by Troy? She explained, "Troy has done such a phenomenal job, he's managed so many other big artists like Lady Gaga. His opinion is of great value to me and he gives great direction." CEO of Desi Hits! Anjula Acharia - Bath specifically flew out to India last February to scout Priyanka and has this to say about the actress and now singer. "Priyanka is an international superstar who has captivated millions around the world. Her foray into the American music industry meets the vision of our company, which strives to fuse the best of the eastern and western culture to create magic."Priyanka is currently in the studio writing and recording her first album which will be sung in English. She explained more about the album in our interview, "The music I'm working on is all very new at the moment, it will be a pop album but with a few dance tracks. I will be writing all my own lyrics." Priyanka continues, "I will be working a lot of producers like Jeremy Skaller, Rodney Wilkins and Sid Angelo. All of these producers have their own unique sound and their helping me find my sound." Priyanka proves to be proud to be a pure Desi girl when she says, "My album will be in English however it will always have an Indian flavor incorporated. I'll never take away India from my music, my roots lie there. We want something that is familiar to the audience in the East but also not completely alien to the audience in the West." At the end of it all, Priyanka wanted to thank the three most important people that have been helping her launch her music career, "Jimmy Iovine(chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M,) Troy Carter(CEO of Atom factor, manager to Lady Gaga), and Anjula Acharia-Bath (CEO of Desi Hits!) have been my backbone and spine through all of this."Last but certainly not least, Priyanka wanted to give a message to the fans that have supported her through the years, "I have received so much love and loyalty from everyone who has watched my movies, this is not something that I'm doing alone, it's something that I'm doing for all my fans across the world who have made me who I am today. Never really had anyone push me in the film industry, never had a godfather it's always been my fans. Are you excited for Priyanka's music debut? Let us know!  | | | | | | | | | |  | |  | |  |
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