PML(Q) Website Gets Hacked

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Monday, Apr 23, 2012 33 Comments

PML(Q) Website Gets Hacked

Read this post in Urdu In a recent development, official website of Pakistan Muslim League (Qaid-e-azam) got hacked and is still not rectified. Hacker is calling himself/herself to be identified as GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r. It is said that hacker is member Of Pak Cyber HunTerZ, who has used vulgar language on hacked pages, something common for hackers when...

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Pakistan Participated in APCERT Cyber Drill, It wasn’t a Competition BTW

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 2 Comments

Pakistan Participated in APCERT Cyber Drill, It wasn’t a Competition BTW

I am sure you must have read of this news recently, mainly on Facebook and blogs, claiming that Pakistani hackers won a hacking competition beating hackers hailing from 28 different countries. Well, that’s not true. There wasn’t any competition at all, yes there was a Cyber Drill and it was related to Incident Response in which PISA (Pakistan Information...

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Screenshots of Hacker who Hacked PTI Facebook Pages

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Feb 6, 2012 22 Comments

Screenshots of Hacker who Hacked PTI Facebook Pages

21 Years old self-proclaimed hacker, reportedly from Karachi, who is claiming to have hacked around or more than 30 Facebook fanpages of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf had uploaded his picture on one of PTI Facebook Page to reveal limited information to the public. According to the message posted on a PTI Facebook page, before it was taken down, Hacker called...

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Punjab Public Service Commission is Exposing Sensitive Data of Candidates [CNIC, Contact Details, Pictures and more]

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 68 Comments

Punjab Public Service Commission is Exposing Sensitive Data of Candidates [CNIC, Contact Details, Pictures and more]

Read this post in Urdu Like we pointed out earlier about FBR’s website that was exposing sensitive user data of taxpayers (they later rectified the flaw after we pointed out), this time it’s Punjab Public Service Commission – and situation has only worsen. Punjab Public Service Commission or PPSC has just opened the doors for everyone to find...

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IndianDefence Hacked by PCA to Avenge Defence.PK Defacement

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Wednesday, Aug 31, 2011 52 Comments

IndianDefence Hacked by PCA to Avenge Defence.PK Defacement

In response to recent hack of Defence.PK, Pakistan Cyber Army has defaced IndianDefence.com, terming it as a revenge for defence.pk defacement. PCA says that it successfully penetrated into IndianDefence,com’s server – they issued screenshots of defaced pages and SQL dump. Pakistan Cyber Army claimed that this was a targeted defacement. In an email...

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Pakistan Gets First Digital Forensics Firm

By Mehwish Khan · Monday, Aug 22, 2011 7 Comments

Pakistan Gets First Digital Forensics Firm

With rise of internet and mobile phone usage in the country, the dire need of digital forensics and information security solution was lying vacant. To tap the demand, first of it’s kind fully digital forensics company has started it’s operations in Pakistan. Hailing from Turkey, ‘Forensic People’ brings the experience of operating in 12 countries...

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Defence.pk Gets Hacked, 38K Members Data at Risk

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Tuesday, Aug 16, 2011 84 Comments

Defence.pk Gets Hacked, 38K Members Data at Risk

Defence.PK, one of the largest and most active Pakistani forum on internet, reportedly got hacked earlier today by an independent Indian hacker. Hacker claims that he has got access to main database of defence.pk and a 2 GB file has been dumped and saved with him. He aims to release the whole dump, that contains user information of some 38,000 members,...

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State of Mobile Malware [infographic]

By Ahsan Javed · Monday, Aug 15, 2011 4 Comments

State of Mobile Malware [infographic]

Mobile devices have always been under the attack of malwares. Be it a Android phone or some other, there are many sources that can affect your device with malicious code. Android has always been under the attack of such attempts and Google had to remove some injected apps from market as well. Moreover once your phone is injected with this code, the...

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Anonymous Aims to Kill (Hack) Facebook on Nov 5th

By Ahsan Javed · Wednesday, Aug 10, 2011 26 Comments

Anonymous Aims to Kill (Hack) Facebook on Nov 5th

Anonymous has announced its new target, operation facebook. In a YouTube video (showed at the end of the post), the hackivist group said that their new aim is to ‘kill facebook’ on 5th of November, 2011. The group said that keeping in view the privacy issues on Facebook; they have decided to completely destroy Facebook on 5th of November which is...

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Pakistan Cyber Army Hacks into Indian BSNL

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Thursday, Jul 28, 2011 49 Comments

Pakistan Cyber Army Hacks into Indian BSNL

In response to recent hacking attacks by Indian Hackers on various Pakistani universities, it is said that Pakistan Cyber Army was able to hack into BSNL website, largest and state owned telecom company of India. According to “The Hacker News”, PCA claims to have penetrated into BSNL’s website and had access to data of some 10,000 customers; which...

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University of Central Punjab’s Website Got Hacked by Indian Hacker

By Ahsan Javed · Sunday, Jul 24, 2011 32 Comments

University of Central Punjab’s Website Got Hacked by Indian Hacker

University of Central Punjab’s official website got hacked this noon and the attacker has stated that he is from India. Though we are not sure at the moment whether this attack was purely from India or someone else is using India’s name. No confirmation from UCP web-master is available at the moment. Server logs might help in this regard...

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How to Stay Safe Online?

By Syed Talal · Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 7 Comments

In this day and age, security is one of the most talked about and vital things and rightly so, because the average number of threats against the common user is steadily rising. If one isn’t careful, chances are they’ll end up infecting their computers or fall prey to account or identity theft. These threats come in various forms, it could be that...

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Military Officials Deny the Hacking Attempt of Gen. Shuja Pasha’s Email ID

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Jul 11, 2011 45 Comments

Military Officials Deny the Hacking Attempt of Gen. Shuja Pasha’s Email ID

In a news appearing today on an Indian website claims that an Indian hacker successfully penetrated into Gmail email id of Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Director General of ISI – however, the relevant military officials have denied the incident and said that the screenshots provided by the news website are fabricated and bear no originality. When contacted,...

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Dozens of High Profile Pakistani Websites Are Vulnerable to Hacking: Indian Hacker

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Monday, Jun 27, 2011 32 Comments

Dozens of High Profile Pakistani Websites Are Vulnerable to Hacking: Indian Hacker

An Indian hacker, named as Zero, has exposed over a dozen high profile Pakistani websites – which are vulnerable and hack-able. At the moment, we don’t know much about Zero due to insufficient information available about him, however, according to a source in hacker’s community, Zero is apparently from India. Before we go into further details,...

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Facebook Privacy #Fail and How Evils Exploit it?

By Syed Talal · Tuesday, Jun 21, 2011 19 Comments

Facebook Privacy #Fail and How Evils Exploit it?

It seems like companies in Pakistan have now fully realized the potential of the internet as an effective tool for advertising and increasing popularity. Evidence is the fact that more and more local ads are starting to appear on seemingly every web site we visit. This is maybe good but more and more cases are popping up which point to the fact that...

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