Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu get prize for love and forgiveness

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, Tuesday confirmed reports that computers in his office were hacked and saw the Chinese government's hand in the cyber-spying. 'A communication from my office to the central secretariat of the elected government (Tibetan government in exile) about a person who wanted to see me fell into Chinese hands.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday called for an investigation into reports of spill of information from the Tibetan website by China. "Some individuals want to see me and want to correspond with our concerned officials, that information has been reached to Chinese hands.

March 29th, 2009 TORONTO - A China-based cyber spy network has hacked into government and private systems in 103 countries, including those of many Indian embassies and the Dalai Lama, an Internet research group said here Saturday. The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which carried out an extensive 10-month research on cyber spy activities emanating from China, said the hacked systems include the computers of Indian embassies and offices of the Dalai Lama.

March 29th, 2009 TORONTO - Canadian researchers have reportedly uncovered a Chinese cyber plot that hacked the websites of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and systems in the embassies of India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Thailand, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany and Pakistan. They claimed that the operation has been successful in stealing documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Former US national security adviser Mark Pfeifle has said that microblogging site Twitter should win the Nobel Peace Prize for its role during the civil unrest in Iran. "When traditional journalists were forced to leave the country, Twitter became a window for the world to view hope, heroism, and horror," The Telegraph quoted Pfeifle, as saying.

March 30th, 2009 TORONTO - A 34-year-old international relations student and part-time tech geek Meet at Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies tried everything to track down a piece of malicious software that had infected computers around the world, including those in the offices of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Finally, he turned to the ultimate hacker's tool: He entered some of the code from those infected computers into Google.

September 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Proteans today announced its inclusion on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers, now in its 27th year. Proteans participating for the first time in this survey was ranked 461, with an impressive growth rate of 62.7 per cent.

July 8th, 2009 Some recent international cyber attacksA look at some known international cyber attacks in recent years: —In April, a former U.S. government official said that spies had hacked into the U.S.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates will receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development here today. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

July 25th, 2009 Bill Gates receives Indira Gandhi Prize in IndiaNEW DELHI — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Saturday received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development from India's president, a government statement said. The prize recognizes his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is in India to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil on Saturday presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for his charity work. Gates received the prize on behalf of his 38 billion dollars Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

May 21st, 2009 BEIJING - An acclaimed Internet scientist has said that there is no way hackers could access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military on government networks. Former National Computer Network Emergency response team's Director Professor Fang Binxing said there is no scientific basis to blame either China's military or the government for hacking other nations' networks because most of them are "out of reach".

March 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Chinese cyber-espionage network used sophisticated social and computer engineering techniques to trick the Dalai Lama's office into downloading malicious software, according to a cyber security expert. Researchers, based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada, Sunday reported that the spy ring had infiltrated computers and stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Indian embassy in Washington.

July 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The next time you surf the internet, you may bump into a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. A US security expert has proposed the honour for micro-blogging site Twitter, which helped protesters in Iran beat censorship and tell their tale to the world.