“You are driving in a very populated area where every minute some one is either trying to get under your car/bike or over your car/bike and all of a sudden your mobile phone beep starts. You think this must be the address you have been trying to reach from past one hour sent by your friend. You just push the break, escape a narrow accident and eagerly unlock your cell phone and read the message. To your utter surprise it is your carrier telling you that now you can download some new ringtones from their site.”
If that’s not enough, here is another scenario, (more…)
National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) is co-hosting the InfoSec 2008 - 4th International Conference on Information Security being held in Marriott Hotel, Islamabad on 27th August, 2008. Most important thing is that many distinguished Pakistani & International speakers will participate including Mr. Zahid Jameel of DNDRC fame. He will be speaking on cyber crimes and cyber prosecutions even his role has been very controversial on this subject. Well, I am concerned now. I don’t know how many cases have been resolved by NR3C so far and if they have played any role in the infamous djuice.pk case. But I really appreciate them for co-hosting such an event to help generate some awareness regarding IInformation Security.
On the contrary side, I do not see any professionalism (at least by looking at their website) at all. They look like typical Govt. employees who are least bothered (more…)
(I have more screen shots and evidences of this software bug of PKNIC. These email owners must also have received an email of changed authorization codes to their site last night.)
Disclaimer:
This was not a “hack attack”. This was a very spontaneous act carried in good faith after seeing the authorization code bug on their site. I have not done any harm to any of the sites above. I just wanted to record this bug and brought this up all in public for the greater interest of whole Internet community of Pakistan to help make PKNIC improve their domain registration system and quality of service.
I could have changed anything from registrar/billing/technical information to DNS entries.
Should I have just changed their DNS to point them all to my site?
Well, even a small change in the DNS could have rendered any top Pakistani site, out of sight (and out of business) for at least 72 hours (more…)
