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The Karachi Bloggers Meetup!

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Yes, there’s going to be a Karachi Bloggers meetup too!

From their registration page:

Event Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=38794231298

The idea is to encourage Internet users & bloggers to meet offline as well. Senior bloggers get a chance to share knowledge & experience. New wanna-be bloggers can learn from the local success stories and network with leaders & professionals in this field.

Date & Time: Saturday, Dec 06, 2008
Venue: TBA soon
Organizer: CIO Pakistan in association with Google Pakistan
Contact 1: Badar Khushnood ; +92.300.8486070 ; badar@google.com
Contact 2: Mehjabeen Sheikh ; +92.21.4255022 ; mehjabeen.shaikh@rasalagroup.org

Since we have limited seats, registration (FREE) in advance is mandatory.

Register here.

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!

The Author Of My Blog Is A Thinker…

Monday, November 24th, 2008

This website tells you about the type of the blog author. I am:


INTP – The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications.

They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.

Not bad! :lol:
The only thing I don’t like is: Why the heck is that a Macbook in the cartoon?
Consider yourself tagged! :P

URGENT ALERT: Brasstacks Website Closed Down By US Govt!

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Dear all,

Assalam alaikum.

Alhamdolillah and shukar in all tests and trials. I have just been informed by our webmaster that US government has forced the site hosting server to close down our site and now www.brasstacks.pk is no more available for the time being. We had taken some space on a third party server in US but it seems that it was not so good idea.

We are in process of shifting it to another server, in Pakistan this time, but may loose some data like mailing list or videos which were uploaded. Please bear with us and remember us in your dua always.

These kind of reactions were always expected though we never thought they would come so soon :)) so much for their “freedom of media and information”. :)))

Khair inshallah and Wassalam

Zaid Hamid