ماسکو(آن لائن) امریکی نیشنل سکیورٹی ایجنسی کے ملازم ایڈورڈسنوڈن کے دیگر ممالک کے خفیہ معلومات کے انکشافات کے بعد روس نے کمپیوٹر کو چھوڑ کر ٹائپ رائٹرز کی مدد لینے کا فیصلہ کرلیا ۔ میڈیا رپورٹس کے مطابق جدید کمپیوٹر جنہوں نے دنیا بھر میں تہلکہ مچایا وہاں پر خفیہRead More →
RIYADH ( NET REPORT) Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported. The website of the information ministry was among the hacked sites, according to state news broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya and newspapers. The websites of Al-Ekhbariya itself,Read More →
NEW YORK (MEDIA) They didn’t use guns, masks or even threatening notes passed to bank tellers. But an alleged international gang of cyberthieves managed to steal $45 million from thousands of ATMs in carefully coordinated attacks conducted in a matter of hours, federal authorities charged Thursday. A four-count indictment unsealedRead More →
ISLAMABAD: Cyber attacks on the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) website have been foiled but the website itself has been shutdown deliberately to avoid further attacks. Director General IT, Khizar Aziz, at theECP said that Asian and Russian hackers launched attacks on the website but these attacks were foiled, addingRead More →
DHAKA (SPECIAL REPORT) Following Pakistan footsteps, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is establishing an International Clearing House (ICH) to curb illegal VoIP and termination price wars among international gateway operators. The regulator says it is seeing a decrease in international call volume and believes this is due to operatorsRead More →
Islamabad Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), the largest Information Communication Technology (ICT) service provider in Pakistan, has won distinction for the country, with South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) conferring the ‘Best Presented Accounts Award 2011’ to the company, in the category of ‘Communication and Information Technology’. The award isRead More →
Countries that have signed on to international cybersecurity agreements tend to have fewer malware infections among their citizens, according to new research released by Microsoft and George Washington University. Countries that have signed the 2001 Council of Europe Cybercrime treaty or the 2004 London Action Plan on spam tend toRead More →
KUALA LUMPUR (MEDIA) Malaysian Authorities have arrested 12 Chinese believed to be involved in telecom fraud near Kuala Lumpur, reports Xinhua. According to the investigators the suspects who were operating from a bungalow were would pose as Malaysian investigators and would threat to freeze the victims’ bank account if theirRead More →
BAIJING (MEDIA) China has unveiled tighter internet controls, legalising the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to control “illegal” information and requiring service providers to hand over such information to the authorities for punishment, according to Reuters. The new regulations, announced by the official Xinhua news agency, alsoRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The poor governance of the PPP was seen at its worst on Saturday when after more than three months YouTube was unblocked by the government but the ban was re-imposed by the prime minister a few hours later. The premier re-imposed it when the media exposed the factRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) With US dollar touching new high of Rs100 in the wake of fast dwindling foreign exchange reserves, the financially beleaguered Pakistan has asked Etisalaat Company to pay the remaining amount of $800 million that it owes to Pakistan under the PTCL privatisation deal. The Prime Minister of theRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA) Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Tele has initiated inquiry to check which service providers and operators have opened the access to Youtube and afterwards stern action will be taken against those responsible. The spokesman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in a press release has intimate that PTA has notRead More →