Daily Current Affairs – 5 December 2022

The new CWC will be elected according to the party’s constitution during the plenary.
At the first meeting of the Congress Steering Committee on Sunday, the newly elected party president, Mallikarjun Kharge said those party office-bearers unable to meet their responsibilities should quit.

About INC

The Indian National Congress was founded at Bombay in December 1885.
The early leadership – Dadabhai Naoroji, Pherozeshah Mehta, Badruddin Tyabji, W.C. Bonnerji, Surendranath Banerji, Romesh Chandra Dutt, S. Subramania Iyer, among others – was largely from Bombay and Calcutta.
A retired British official, A.O. Hume, also played a part in bringing Indians from the various regions together.
Formation of Indian National Congress was an effort in the direction of promoting the process of nation building.
In an effort to reach all regions, it was decided to rotate the Congress session among different parts of the country.
The President belonged to a region other than where the Congress session was being held.
First Session: held at Bombay in 1885. President: C. Bannerjee

Two weeks after a cyber attack crippled the servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the system has not been completely restored as investigators anticipate more damage if it is linked to the Internet.
The file extensions for all the physical servers of AIIMS running on Operating System Linux were changed by the ransomware attackers, a probe has found.

About AIIMS

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is an organization of public medical colleges stretched throughout India, established by the Government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Its function is to create a high standard of education in the medical education system for UG & PG courses.

History of AIIMS

AIIMS was founded in 1956 under the supervision of Jawaharlal Nehru and Amit Kaur. AIIMS was established by Parliament’s Act to serve as a nucleus for nurturing achievement in all fields of healthcare.
AIIMS provides high-quality education and learning facilities.
AIIMS colleges are also designated as institutes of national importance, and getting enrolment in one of the AIIMS colleges is a dream for every medical applicant.

Functions of AIIMS

It offers a variety of medical courses; one of these is the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery).
It is a global leader in medical science. In a year, it publishes more than 600 research publications.
It also runs a College of Nursing to have B.Sc Hons. Degree in nursing and operates a hospital with around 60 beds in Ballabgarh, Haryana.
AIIMS has twenty-five clinical departments covering all aspects of clinical conditions, which include four super speciality centres.

List of Indian AIIMS colleges

About Ransomware

Ransomware becoming a global threat in day-to-day computer handling.
The phenomenon that users of computers and researchers in cyber security were witness to from, May 13 has raised many questions of vulnerability.

Operation of the Ransomware

It is a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.
The intrusion was a phishing attack, persuading a user to open a mail sent by a motivated intruder, appears to be from a genuine and authorised source, and the result of a malware (WannaCrypt 2.0) assembled not at one place but in several centres across the globe.
The ransom demanded in each instance was $300 to be paid in Bit coin — a digital currency which renders the beneficiary anonymous and is difficult to locate.
One rough estimate is that the ransom-seekers will eventually net $1 billion, and that they have already received about $33,000.

Origin of Ransom ware

The malware was possibly stolen from a stockpile of weapons which the National Security Agency (NSA) had built up over the years as a counter-offensive to cyber-attacks on the US and its allies by nations such as Russia, China and North Korea.
Shadow Brokers (whose exact identity is yet to be unravelled) had started posting online certain tools they had stolen from the NSA ‘armoury’.
It revives memories of Stuxnet, a worm that both the US and Israel used against Iran’s nuclear programme more than five years ago.
While there is no corroboration to the charge levelled against the NSA, it is interesting that a few former intelligence officers have taken the stand that the tools used in the latest episode were indeed from the NSA’s ‘Tailored Access Operations’ unit.

Indonesia’s Mount Semeru erupted on December 4 spewing hot ash clouds a mile into the sky and sending rivers of lava down its side, sparking the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people exactly one year after its last major eruption killed dozens.
The eruption of the highest mountain on Indonesia’s main island of Java, around 800 kilometres (500 miles) southeast of capital Jakarta, prompted authorities to raise the alert status to the highest level.

Source : THE HINDU