Category: Cyber Watch

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Facebook agreed to acquire WhatsApp mobile Instant Messaging App

The most popular social network Facebook have recently agreed to acquire WhatsApp. WhatsApp is very popular mobile app instant messaging through smart phones over the internet connection, which include Wifi, GPRS, 3G, 4G or any other kind. WhatsApp is available for iOS, Android, Windows and many other mobile platforms it have gained tremendous popularity and over 450 million people use it for day to day communication with each other. In availability of Wifi or any other data connection this App enables its users to communicate with its contacts using the same App communicate freely without using conventional SMS, MMS or any other form of multimedia messages. Millions use WhatsApp daily to send text messages, videos, photos and even videos to […]

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Pakistan IT and telecom news blog ProPakistani.pk got hacked

ProPakistani.pk is Pakistan’s leading IT and telecom news blog. This website is owned by and IT professional name Aamir Aatta, who left his job few years back to put all his attention to his information technology and telecom news blog. Soon this blog got famous as it was mostly pasting the packages of cell phone companies, it took off via its success on social media, soon it was visited by most of Online Pakistanis daily. As time passed, blog got more mature and professional. It also been involved in leaking telecom operators news ahead of time but most of time the authentic new. Today, its hacked by a group of hackers calling them 1337 and few other online identity type […]

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Official website of Allied Bank Pakistan is hacked and Defaced

The official website of Allied Bank Limited is hacked by hackers who are called themselves Xploiter and Dr. Freak. They have defaced the website and added their own page with a warning, screenshot is as follows. Hackers have left their not about the site, which concludes to Allied Bank Limited should have learned from the hacking events of Habib Bank Limited, Sonari bank and PKNIC (Pakistani Domain name system). Please note that these were hacked in recent past and hacker rightly said that Allied Bank and other banks of Pakistan should have been more careful with their website security. Hackers claim to be friends of Pakistan rather than foo, as they claim that they want that banks and other agencies […]

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Mobilink takes down registrations for prepaid users on its e-care portal immediately after launching the service

While browsing the web I came across an attractive ad about Mobilink. Ad featured their new logo as well as mentioned of their new services they launched. Being their customer it got me excited and I followed the link. After reaching the target site I found a whole new look which was refreshing, what made me excited was their new feature for prepaid customers which was offering a signup for them. This meant that now I will probably enable more control over the usage specially the call records will be available. So I immediately gone for registration form and started feeding the required information. As soon as I hit registration a message came and surprised me and it was some […]

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Website of Meezan Bank is Down

Meezan bank is bank which claims to be practicing the Islamic banking. It operates countrywide in Pakistan and is based in Karachi, Pakistan. As of this hour I was trying to access the bank’s website, as the new organization I joined is operating the accounts in same bank. I noticed that the website of the bank is now down for hours. Isn’t it strange for a bank when it’s site is down and no one is there at their IT department to keep track of things. Organizations of Pakistan, specially those operating on such a big level, should make sure that are accessible all the time on the internet. The website we are talking here is meezanbank.com By the way, […]