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Indo-Pak Cyber War

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

India – Pakistan in State of Cyber War

In response to an action by HMG, Indian script kiddie, who hacked OGRA’s website, A Pakistani Group called PCA (Pakistan Cyber Army) has reportedly hacked at least five Indian websites including http://www.ongcindia.com/ – Indian Oil and Natural Gas website.

Other websites which were hacked by Pakistanis include

http://www.syscontech.in/
http://www.iirs.gov.in/
http://www.ctram.indianrail.gov.in/
http://www.kvrtm.org.in/

I got a chance to speak with PCA, who confirmed that their group knew this web-server for last two years which is hosting most of Indian Government Websites, but they never hacked it, despite it was never a big deal for them. PCA was of the view that they are not criminals and bear no bad intentions for anyone, but they could not see Pakistani websites getting hacked by Indians; so they had to hack these Indian websites.

PCA left following message on http://www.ongcindia.com/

This is a message from PCA for HMG(script_kiddies) in return to the ogra defacement.
Backoff , go read some course books else you will loose both , your name and this game.
We will literally SMOKE YOUR DOORS OFF like other groups did before.
This is just a warning to Indian authorities either
to launch inquiry against HMG or get ready for more action.
We were sleeping but not Dead.
Now Face the consequences
HAroon + HAmza + ABunasar
Naveed + Hassan
Pakistan ZindaBad

PCA asked Indian authorities to take action against HMG (the group that hacked OGRA’s website). The most notable part of this defacement is

This is just a warning to Indian authorities either to launch inquiry against HMG or get ready for more action

As I mentioned in my previous post that OGRA’s website was hacked by a Indian Script kiddes, who was actually not aware of the consequences. But his little mistake may fan the fire of cyber war between India and Pakistan. Exactly the same was as it happened before; meaning that a little mistake is going to lead us to a situation which can damage both countries’ websites.

Previously, both countries remained in state of cyber war during 1997 to 2002. From Pakistan’s side the war was fought by Dr. Nuker, the founder of PHC “Pakistan Hackers Club” and MFRD, founder of G-force. These two groups were responsible for defacing hundreds of Indian websites, and broke all previous records of cyber war history. Both of the Pakistani Groups then settled issues with NEO, an Indian hacker to conclude that 5 years running Cyber war.

By Muhammad Ali Raza. © 2008 Pro PakistaniAll Rights Reserved

Shared by: Zeeshan

SAWJ’s Note: PCA’s stance is right but I hope this ends right here and doesn’t lead to “cyber tensions” between the two countries!

Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade Blues…

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I have been having spam attacks recently that corrupted my rss feeds and rendered them useless for feed aggregators. I tried to solve this problem by reuploading all admin and include files but the spam attacks continued (too lazy to play with .htaccess for so many files). It was then that I decided to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.

Big mistake!!!

Well not actually a mistake as I succeeded in doing it but a lot of my (precious) time got wasted over the aftermath.

It started with me downloading my contents folder to save my themes, plugins and uploads. Then I uploaded all WP files except the contents folder to my server. I ran the upgrade script, went to my login page and, lo and behold, it refused to recognize me as a user, let alone administrator! :shock:

Obviously, I went nuts. I tried resetting the password but it refused to log me in again. Then I tried to do it the hard way by editing my database directly. I made a script to find out the md5 code of any random character, put the code into my database and tried to log in. Still the same.

Heart-broken, I started searching frantically for a solution and what I found out was so damn annoying that there are no G-Rated words for it.

The solution was to simply “clear your saved history and files“!

I did it and the new WP 2.6 Login page appeared. But as I mentioned above, I had edited my database directly and my old password was no more, only some stupid character in md5 code (read: illegible) format.

But, thankfully, I had stored my old password code in a file so getting back up on my feet was no problem. :mrgreen:

Now who the heck is to blame for this episode: Wordpress or Mozilla Firefox?