Highlights ProPakistani faced hacking attempt ProPakistani remained down due to a Wordpress Bug Attacker was traced by ProPakistani team Mr.c0d3r, who allegedly launched DOS on ProPakistani is Lahore based He is allegedly involved in defacing Rehman Malik’s website, FIA, Geo NEWS and various other websites Its Pakistan’s first case study...
By Adeel Billions of mobile phone users around the world are at risk of having their calls intercepted and recorded after hackers broke the encryption used to protect 80 per cent of the world’s mobiles. People regularly trading in confidential information, such as Government officials and executives, would be the most likely eavesdropping targets...
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...
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...
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,...
“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...
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...
This is a Guest Post by Nazakat Hussain I’d like to divert your attention towards an important but unsung mobile security issue i.e. hacking of your mobile phone where hacker can get access to your private information like Contacts, Messages, Photos, Videos etc using Bluetooth. Ironically, the damage can be done by simple and freely available mobile...
Generally, in Pakistan we don’t care much about security, and this is truly due to lack of education for Information security in the country. Though there are few people who work really hard and put their best efforts to protect their data/computers/web servers from hacking attempts. I have raised the issue several times about hacking, I mentioned...
Israeli strike against Gaza has irked civilized world, Professionals from every religion or region are protesting against US and Israel. Doctors, teachers, students, worker and hackers, yes, Muslim hackers around the globe have started protested in their own way. As we all know that the media link with Gaza has been lost so all bloggers are doing the...
Whenever we hear a word “Hacker”, by default we get a negative impact in our minds. At the same time, we need to know that there is a better side of (ethical) hacking we can in fact relate (ethical) hacking for debugging in our information systems. An Ethical Hacker is an expert, which are normally hired by corporations to attempt to retrieve...
New in the series, this time PTCL’s SMART TV’s website: www.ptcl.net got hacked. This is PTCL’s IPTV portal… Google’s cached page is available here or here Note: Website has been down for more than 12 hours, and apparently PTCL guys are still thinking to take any action! Update: www.ptcl.net is not being pinged. Credit:...
Editor’s Note: We are deliberately not disclosing bank’s name to secure it from competitive disadvantage, also this hack incident is not related in any case with previous hacking posts published on ProPakistani.com A leading bank of Pakistan got hacked with complete compromise over its services and server, earlier this month. This compromise,...
“What we loose with a less secure website?” I am asked this question by many people, today, in this article I will try to cover those core reasons, which make it essential for everyone to secure his/her web server. We will try to measure necessary security threats for all scale of websites, ranging from personal blogs to community websites, small...
I am glad that my previous post about Cyber War between India and Pakistan got tremendous response, not only through fellow commenter’s, but it was escalated in main stream media, and was carried by Geo TV, Dawn TV, Express TV, Daily Jang, The News and others, but at the same time, some people took the whole story in wrong sense. I was just reporting...
