Rising Trend of Memberships without Privacy Policy

By Reality Bites · Monday, Jan 18, 2010 10 Comments

Importance of Customers’ privacy policy has been realized widely now. Practices are in play in order to protect any individuals’ loss due to failures/breach or misuse of customers’ data by any means. If you just visit any famous garments store, frozen food store or any 3 to 5 star hotel etc, you are may be offered “Membership”...

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Pakistan's first Antivirus "Instant Virus killer"

By Valentine Aaqil Mahmood · Monday, Oct 12, 2009 21 Comments

Pakistan's first Antivirus "Instant Virus killer"

Instant virus killer is not only an anti-virus but this software also has capability to backup and recover infected or lost data within seconds! This powerful anti-virus is made by two Pakistanis Hafiz Usman and Mr. Imran. While in an interview to Aaj TV, Mr Hafiz Usman told that “To develop an anti-virus, it was not an idea it was only an incident”....

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Ufone Smart Code Service – Get Uload without Revealing your Number

By Valentine Aaqil Mahmood · Thursday, Aug 20, 2009 0 Comments

Ufone Smart Code Service - Get Uload without Revealing your Number

Ufone’s another nice step, first in industry – introduces this service that can be essentially useful for female customers who get their number shared at shops while getting their Ufone account recharged by giving number to the the retailers. Now you do not need to worry, you can get your Ufone top up without giving your U number to anyone,...

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Rising Trend of E-Banking in Pakistan

By Mehwish Khan · Thursday, Aug 20, 2009 3 Comments

Electronic banking (e-banking) and branchless banking transactions continued to show growth momentum as both the volume and value of these transactions displayed a rising trend in the country during the last quarter of the fiscal year (FY2008-09). According to the Fourth Quarterly Report on “Branchless Banking/ Electronic Banking,” the volume and...

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Interview: Qazi Misbah Ahmed, CEO PakCERT

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 0 Comments

Interview: Qazi Misbah Ahmed, CEO PakCERT

ProPakistani got a chance to catch Country’s top security expert, Qazi Misbah Ahmed, CEO PakCERT, to have discussion over security issues including personal and corporate security, hacking, trainings, ethical hacking and many other concerning topics. Qazi Misbah (MBA-MIS/CISSP/CPTS/CEH/ITIL/COBIT/AMBCI’s Experience) is Pakistan’s top security...

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Be Aware of PayPal, Credit Card Phishing

By Unknown Writer · Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 5 Comments

Be Aware of PayPal, Credit Card Phishing

Advancement in technology effects both in good way and the bad one. With the development of new software and latest scripts, much ease has been provided to our cyber and computer life but still the dark side of the picture cannot be ignored. Credit Card scamming and PayPal phishing have been the most prohibited and banned activities by cyber authorities....

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Website Of FBISE Gets Hacked – Result Of 1st Year Leaked Out

By Zeeshan Shafquat · Saturday, Aug 8, 2009 44 Comments

Just an hour ago the website of Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) was hacked by some hacker named TZ – GEO Tv reported. Tomorrow at 11:30am FBISE was going to announce the result of HSSC part-1 examinations. The hacker stole the entire result data from FBISE’s servers and uploaded them to this fake site. The news...

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Should I Give My Personal Details to Metro for Shopping there?

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009 0 Comments

I don’t have Metro card, however, I go there with one of my friends, or I get temporary card for a visit. If you ever visited Metro, you may know that they ask your name, company you work for, cell number, company number, date of birth and what not, for issuing temporary or permanent card. Thanks God, they don’t ask me about my B-Form, my night...

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'The News' Website Under Malware Attack

By Mehwish Khan · Saturday, Jul 25, 2009 0 Comments

Jang’s Web Servers are having touch time these days, earlier Jang.Com.Pk was under malware attack and today, The News website is detected as malware effected by Google. Here are our past posts Jang.Com.Pk Under Malware Attack, Says Google How Malicious Code Damage a Website and its Visitors? ...

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New Law in Action – Arrests Reported for Sending Indecent SMS

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009 0 Comments

A student has been arrested from Okara for sending indecent SMS to Rehman Malik – he was reportedly shouting at minister against this new SMS/MMS/Email law, reported PkOnWeb Blog. This news was further confirmed by FIA officials, which are already on their toes. A senior officer at law enforcement agency said that the directive has been there, all...

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Govt Launch Campaign against offensive emails, SMSs

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Jul 13, 2009 0 Comments

This has happened before, and now again – Government of Pakistan has launched a campaign against offensive emails and text messages, said Geo TV citing its sources. No doubt, govt of Pakistan especially the ruling party remains in SMS jokes/ Emails/ Social Networks – that circulate throughout the country – and this is naturally not...

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How Malicious Code Damage a Website and its Visitors?

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 7 Comments

How Malicious Code Damage a Website and its Visitors?

As you people know very well that I have been emphasizing about security and its importance from day one – but people actually didn’t focus on it and here are the results for not paying attention. Jang.com.pk and few other Pakistani websites got marked as malicious websites by Google. To actually understand on how all this happened, and...

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Google Morocco Defaced by Pakistani Hackers

By Aamir Attaa · Saturday, May 9, 2009 17 Comments

Google Morocco Defaced by Pakistani Hackers

Pakistani Hackers (reportedly settled in Saudi Arabia) today put down Google’s search page (http://www.google.com.ma) specialized for Morocco. Domain name remained down for many hours, while people got enough chance to record plenty of screenshots here and here. TechCrunch says that there’s a bit of confusion about how the hack was performed exactly,...

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Another Website Got Hacked

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Thursday, Apr 2, 2009 0 Comments

“ispr.gov.pk” got defaced today – it was a general (un-targeted) hack by some un-identified hackers.  that’s the only news I have got to share with you guys today. I remember my last post on ProPakistani was in January 2009. The reason i stopped posting such news was because people started getting interested in hacking in a...

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FIA Blocks Hack Attempts on its Website

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Feb 16, 2009 0 Comments

The Federal Investigation Agency, which has been looking in parallel to other law enforcement agencies into allegations of Pakistanis’ involvement in Mumbai Attacks, has successfully blocked multiple hack attempts on its website. Reportedly, these hack attempts were launched with-in minutes of the interior ministry’s disclosure of its preliminary...

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