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Hitcher, the Pakistani hacker, defaced four websites belonging to the India-based Kingfisher Airlines company to post his protest message against India and Israel.
The list of affected domains includes the company’s main site (flykingfisher.com/home.html), and the ones dedicated to Kingfisher Cargo (kingfishe... |
1 May 2012
08:52 GMT |
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The famous Pakistani singer Zaain Ul Abeedin recently found that his Facebook page was taken over by a cybercriminal. Authorities failed to help the celebrity so he turned to ethical hacker Himanshu Sharma, who in less than 24 hours managed to recover the account. This is not the first time when a celebrity’s ... |
1 May 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Hitcher, a hacker part of the Pak Cyber Force, has breached and defaced more than 500 websites. Voice of Grey Hat provided the complete list of affected websites. The list of victims includes sites owned by businesses and governments from Argentina, China, Pakistan, Australia, Korea, United States, Panama, and other... |
21 April 2012
06:43 GMT |
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Pakistani hackers from the ZCompany Hacking Crew are mostly known for mass defacing websites to post protest messages against the actions of Israel and other enemy countries. If until now they focused mostly on Israeli and Indian sites, not they turned their attention to ones from overseas and breached the recruitm... |
30 March 2012
02:59 GMT |
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A hacker that goes by the name of Dark Snipper, part of the IT-Dosti Hackerz group, breached and defaced a number of 15 websites. The list of victims includes Realmazaa, ChatMyIndia, GoogleStar16, Apps4Share, My Special Search, Sports Online 24/7, Fultoo Entertainment and a number of sites that belong to Australian ... |
28 March 2012
06:59 GMT |
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It’s no news that Pakistani and Indian hackers are in a constant cyber battle in which each side claims to be the rightful owner of the controversial Kashmir region.
Indian hackers part of Team Nuts defaced 150 commercial websites, most of which, according to Voice of Grey Hat, belong to Pakistani businesses. ... |
26 March 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Life is not easy for Pakistani citizens, not to mention for hackers who want to make a difference in the world by protesting against violent governing regimes and injustices.
However, the harsh conditions won’t make them give up and this week’s hacker featured in our Hackers around the world series pro... |
3 March 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The official website of Fiat India was hacked and defaced by members of the ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) as a form of protest against India. As in most cases, the attack is related to the controversial regions of Jammu and Kashmir, a source of conflict between India and Pakistan. “This institutionalized impuni... |
9 February 2012
05:07 GMT |
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A Pakistany hacker collective known as the Robot Pirates defaced a number of 73 US websites as a form of protest against NATO operations. No customer data was leaked from the databases, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the cybercriminals didn’t obtain access to the information. “We want heads... |
15 December 2011
04:42 GMT |
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The official website belonging to the President of Guyana (op.gov.gy) was hacked and defaced by a cyberattacker known as Tha Disastar, member of The Hackers Army, informs VoiceOfGreyHat.
“To the ignorant observer Israel may appear modern, vigorous and democratic largely thanks to the outrageous bias in Western... |
12 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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The Pakistani hacker collective known as Pak Cyber Pirates breached the defense mechanisms deployed by 99 US and Indian websites in an attempt to attract the attention of NATO officials.
All the defaced websites host an image of a Pakistani flag and signs of the alleged atrocities committed by NATO in their countr... |
10 December 2011
06:49 GMT |
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A cybercriminal nicknamed LuCkY from the Indian hacker collective Indishell managed to deface dawn.com, the biggest Pakistani news site. While the main page remains unharmed, a subdomain hosts a picture and a message from the attacker. “Mod_security At High Level, 56 alexa in Pakistan , 3,500 worldwide , Pakis... |
8 December 2011
10:59 GMT |
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Pakistani hackers are keeping themselves busy these days, taking down more than 100 websites over the weekend, many of which belonged to their declared enemy India.
Pak Cyber Army, Pak Cyber Pyrates and Pak Cyber Combat Squad are the groups to blame for the latest website defacements.
First, Pak Cyber Combat Squad ... |
5 December 2011
08:04 GMT |
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A hacker collective that goes by the name of Pak Cyber HunterZ defaced a handful of Pakistani and Indian websites, some of them hosted on .gov or .edu domains.
“Site Has Been Hacked By (GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r)Team Pak Cyber HunterZ. Where Is Your Security Admin? You dnt even got skills to protect your own a**,&rdqu... |
24 November 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Pakistan is preparing a military school that will focus on teaching students how to protect the country against cyberattacks coming from India and Israel.
According to Cyberwarzone, the school will be opened in 2012 and it will admit 30 scholars which will learn everything there is to know about cyber warfare in t... |
14 October 2011
02:28 GMT |
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The aftermath of the massive floods that affected Pakistan this summer are visible in this new image provided by the NASA Earth Observatory. The natural disasters – caused by extremely heavy monsoon rains – affected no less than 5.4 million people.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordin... |
8 October 2011
11:01 GMT |
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YouTube is once again being threatened with a country-wide ban, this time along with Google and possibly other large websites, if the sites don't cooperate with the country's anti-terrorism efforts.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik threatened that Google, YouTube and others could be blocked in the country ... |
19 September 2011
05:51 GMT |
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The Pakistani government is enforcing a new telecom law that effectively bans technologies using encryption and has begun threatening ISPs to take action.Pakistan's The Express Tribune reports that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has sent warning notices to ISPs about the continuous use of encrypt... |
29 August 2011
14:48 GMT |
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US President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Osama bin Laden has been killed by a small strike force. The leader of al Qaeda was eliminated in a gun fight that took place on a compound located in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a few kilometers away from the capital Islamabad. The operation was carried out with surgical ... |
2 May 2011
03:49 GMT |
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The Pakistani government launched an investigation into hacking attacks that left several of its websites defaced recently and plans to contact the Interpol if the perpetrators are from abroad.On November 26, a group identifying itself as the Indian Cyber Army (ICA), compromised 36 Pakistani government websites, incl... |
9 December 2010
09:50 GMT |
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Pakistani Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority's website became the latest victim of a feud between Indian and Pakistani hackers, who after one round of mass defacements on both sides of the border, are not ready to lay down their weapons.The attacks started two weeks ago on November 26, with a group called the Indi... |
7 December 2010
11:19 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they are aiding authorities in Pakistan manage the consequences of the disaster floods that struck the country recently.The waters devastated around 33 percent of the country's surface, affecting an estimate 20 million people. It therefore stands to reas... |
2 September 2010
11:34 GMT |
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Using data collected via its Earth-observing satellites, the American space agency is currently piecing together a clear picture of what happened just before, during and after the massive wave of floods that affected Pakistan in late July 2010.According to official statistics, it would appear that about 20 percent of... |
21 August 2010
05:08 GMT |
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The Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested five members of an internationally known hacking group called PAKbugs. The group's leader is still at large and is believed to reside in Saudi Arabia.PAKbugs is a hacking group notorious for defacing websites and engaging in credit card fraud. A website d... |
12 July 2010
03:31 GMT |
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Facebook’s well-known and somewhat controversial CEO Mark Zuckerberg is apparently in danger of facing the death penalty in Pakistan. A Pakistani lawyer is said to have filed a petition with the court to have charges brought against the CEO and a couple of its co-founders for blasphemy against Muhammad, which i... |
19 June 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Facebook was recently blocked in Pakistan over content that the country’s Muslim majority found offensive. The spark was a Facebook group that encouraged users to submit drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, an act considered ‘blasphemous’ by many Muslims. Now, a Pakistani court has lifted the ban after... |
31 May 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Pakistan Government officials have announced an Internet ban imposed on more than 450 websites that was set in place today, May 20th, 2010. The main reason cited by Islamabad officials was the deeply sacrilegious and derogatory material present on these sites.Immediately after their filter was put into place, Pakista... |
20 May 2010
10:22 GMT |
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The website of the Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes was defaced yesterday and hackers mocked the institution through a message on the first page. Furthermore, the attackers claim to have downloaded the database and emails stored on the server.The National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) is ... |
8 January 2010
09:40 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Internet, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has recently announced the release of “its first ever, innovative” mobile phone that uses solar power to function, namely the “Solar Crest,” which is now available in Pakistan. The new cell phone is meant to utilize as... |
6 April 2009
05:01 GMT |
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A new health Pakistani initiative could provide several thousand infants with a chance to survive each year. Currently, 10 percent of all children aged under 5 die in the country, due to diseases that can be controlled through vaccination. The Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) bacterium is one of the most dangerous... |
3 November 2008
07:28 GMT |
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Tekelec, a US-based network intelligence company, and Mobilink GSM, a leading mobile operator in Pakistan, have announced a new collaboration set to fight "new-age spammers". Following the agreement, Tekelec is using its TekMedia AntiSpam Firewall Solution in order to protect Mobilink's customers against SMS sp... |
24 July 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Global or not, a nuclear war would kill us all. And if nuclear weapons didn't do the job, then the Sun would. According to recent studies, a regional global war would cause the ozone layer of the Earth to be destroyed in as little as a decade, all living beings being at the mercy of the Sun's ultraviolet ra... |
8 April 2008
03:34 GMT |
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The Pakistan ban that knocked YouTube unconscious to the floor, for almost two hours, might not be as religious related as the state officials initially hinted. Some local users believe that the blocking of the site was actually closely connected to some footage proving election fraud in the South Asian country. With... |
27 February 2008
15:56 GMT |
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The heavy YouTube viewer must have freaked yesterday. For an entire hour, Google's video sharing service was down for no obvious reason like a scheduled maintenance and with no announcement of any sort. Mayhem started on forums as people around the world began reporting the same thing, like Xeroxed: "Can anybody... |
25 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Yesterday, the news of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination represented the hottest subject on the web, as all the people wanted to find out more details on this topic. Being such a popular subject, the attackers quickly adapted their malicious attempts and created several malicious websites ... |
28 December 2007
03:21 GMT |
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Nokia just announced that Telenor Pakistan, one of the leading mobile operators in Pakistan, will offer from now on the Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email solution to personal users, small to medium enterprises and large corporations. The Nokia service is branded by Telenor Pakistan as "SmartMail" and is available as ... |
29 November 2007
08:26 GMT |
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Ericsson and Warid Telecommunications Limited, one of the dominant mobile operators in Pakistan and and Bangladesh, announced the singing of a three-year managed services agreement. The agreement represents Ericsson's first multi-vendor deal in Pakistan and will strengthen the existing cooperation between the Sw... |
14 August 2007
08:48 GMT |
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