Scandals Making the News

This week saw scandals make the headlines with one of the largest car manufacturers deceiving millions for profit and one of the largest technology companies exposing millions to malware.

VW Scandal

The Volkswagen (VW) Scandal shocked the automobile world this week with the discovery that VW had intentional deceived emissions tests resulting in nearly 11 million cars world wide not meeting requirements pumping pollutants into the environment. The repercussion of these actions have seen the CEO resign along with suspicion cast on other car manufacturers.

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Apple App Store Malware

Apple's App Store faced a security threat after multiple infected apps were distributed due to cloned development software. Multiple app makers in China found that they had been using a cloned version of Xcode that inserted malicious code into their apps with WeChat being one of the largest with over 500 million users worldwide exposed.

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Deluded and Deadly

It's been a week of deadly attacks starting with another mass shooting in the US and ending with a so called honor killing and brutal gang rapes in India and beyond.

Disturbed Individuals

On Sunday, 25 May 2014 Elliot Rodger, son of Hunger games director Peter Rodger, went on a killing rampage which began with him stabbing to death 2 housemates and a visiting friend and continued onto the street where he shot and killed 3 people and injured 13 before turning the gun on himself. A manifest of his anger and delusions was sent to his parents blaming others for his actions.

A man has attacked 2 members of the Pop Group AKB48 and an assistant at a fan event in Northern Japan using a 20 inch saw blade.

Murderous Masses

A women was stoned to death in Pakistan in broad daylight outside a court with her husband claiming the police were present but did nothing to stop the attack. The stoning was carried out by the women's own family for marrying the man she loved with her father stating he didn't regret the attack.

30 people were killed in a church in the Central African Republic when gunmen attacked a sanctuary for both Muslims and Christians.

Two Indian sisters were raped and killed by attackers and had their bodies hung in a tree to be discovered by villagers the following day. Arrests have been made with 5 men in custody, 2 of whom are police officers.