In response to hacking incidents of Election Commission of Pakistan by Indian hackers, a hacker group from Pakistan has hacked over 1,000 Indian Election Commission websites. “This targeted hacking incident is in response to Indian hackers’ attempt of damaging Election Commission of Pakistan website”, said an email which was sent to ProPakistani from a hacker group identifying itself as “True Cyber Army” “We have not [...]

Facebook today showed off its new OS overlay for Android phones, which it is calling Facebook Home. Facebook Home – that company says is not an OS but is more than just a app – will replace conventional Facebook app on Android phones. With Facebook Home, users will be able to experience better Facebook with full-screen photos, status updates, and notifications. Facebook Home, once loaded [...]

Other day we wrote about horrible things happening with Election Commission of Pakistan’s Website and the way ECP has managed it so far. Things haven’t got any better till now. In fact ECP website is still down and showing a default page powered by Comsats Hosting. According to stats that we have got from reliable sources – who have direct access to ECP website analytics [...]

Ministry of IT and Telecom – which was hugely ignored during last government – has now got its new Minister and Secretary during this care-taking government. Dr. Sania Nishter, a medicine expert, has been appointed as the new Minister for MoIT while Mr. Shahid Rashid is going to remain the Secretary for the IT ministry. Dr. Sania Nishtar did her Ph.D. in medicine from Kings [...]

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) works semi-autonomously to audit, enforce and collect revenue on behalf of the government of Pakistan. It is considered to be the guardian of Pakistan’s treasury and has two main arms through which it operates, the Regional Tax Offices (RTOs) and Large Taxpayer Units (LTUs) with these units’ offices around the country. Recently, FBR launched its new website after revamping [...]

Mobilink has announced Twitter Zero for all its prepaid Jazz and Jazba customers to let them tweet without any charges at all. Subscribers don’t need to subscribe to this offer since it is available for all prepaid subscribers by default. It merits mentioning here that Ufone has a similar offering for its customers too. How to Access Twitter Free? Mobilink customers will have to access [...]

Tranchulas has announced ‘Capture the flag’, a competition to hunt for Pakistan’s top hacker at Cyber Secure Pakistan 2013 to reward them with exciting prizes including Nexus 7 and a chance to work at Tranchulas. On the upcoming event of Cyber Secure Pakistan 2013 at the Marriott Hotel Islamabad (20th April, 2013), this competition is for all the hackers out there to show their expertise [...]

Election Commission of Pakistan is lately struggling with its website. During weekends it was targeted by hackers and website was put offline to make sure that hackers don’t harm their data – so innocent of ECP – and now they are snipping in and out due to traffic load they are getting on their website. For those who aren’t familiar with the background, Election Commission [...]

By Umer Mahasin The day Pakistan decided to become an ally of America’s War on Terror, it became a prime target of terrorism itself. Since 2001, Pakistan was targeted by hundreds of terrorist attacks causing more than 40,000 civilian and security personals losing their lives. Instead of recognizing Pakistan’s sacrifices in this war, now it’s known as Terrorist State in the world. We can’t be [...]

Ufone today announced that Mr. Abdul Aziz President & CEO, Ufone recently opened his wallet account using Ufone’s branchless banking solution during a ceremony that marked the commencement of the branchless banking solution that company is going to offer to the public in coming days. Mr. Rainer Rathgeber, Group Chief Commercial Officer at Etisalat, was already present at the first wallet opening ceremony of Ufone’s [...]

Microsoft Pakistan recently conducted DigiGirlz Camp 2013 to foster Information Technology related education among young women of Pakistan. DigiGirlz is a Microsoft Youth Spark Program which is a signature platform to invest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education for young women and build a pipeline of future workers ready for the challenges of the global economy. The Microsoft DigiGirlz High Tech Camp was [...]

TPS, a cards and payment solutions provider, has announced that Allied Bank Limited has decided to upgrade to TPS’ next generation multi-channel payment solution ‘IRIS’ to support its ambitious growth strategy. Following a detailed switch selection process, where solutions for both in-house and outsourcing models were evaluated, Allied Bank has selected IRIS as its in-house payment switch because of IRIS parameterization, scalability, reliability and supporting [...]

SMW4, one of the four undersea internet cables that connects Pakistan to rest of the world, has been damaged in the segment 4 beyond Egypt for currently unknown reasons, impacting the internet speeds for majority of internet users with-in Pakistan. This is second undersea cable that got damaged in parallel, resulting into serious browsing issues for Pakistani internet users. The Estimated Time To Repair (ETTR) [...]

At first sight, children at the Deaf Reach School (DRS) in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi are like any other school going children. They enjoy playing cricket, are excited to receive visitors and love going to computer class. The difference is that all of these children are deaf, and many are attending school for the first time. Apart from the most rudimentary sign language, the students at DRS [...]

Newly launched flagship corporate security platform, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, has been officially launched in Pakistan. The launch of this entirely new security platform is a significant milestone in the company’s on-going growth in the global market for corporate IT security solutions. Kaspersky Lab’s new flagship corporate security platform for businesses offers a combination of deep protection, efficiency, and seamless manageability. To simplify IT [...]