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130 Pakistani Websites Got Hacked is a post from: ProPakistani

In an attack launched by Pakistani rivals, some 130 Pakistani websites were successfully accessed by a group called “ICA”.

Reportedly this hack was launched yesterday when one server hosted at Brain Net premises (203.128.6.133) got compromised by alleged hackers.

When tried to contact Brain Net at numbers given on its website, but phone said “Ap ka Matlooba Number Tabdeel Ho giya hay”

Hackers didn’t deface these websites, instead just inserted one file “ICA.html” into root folders, just to show that security level of sever was not up to the mark.

There was no major website in the list – while most of the websites belong to local colleges, Universities and businesses.

List of hacked website can be seen here

We are yet to determine type and size of exploit that was used to root the server.

This is one of many hacking activities reported in past few months, which means it is extremely important for local hosting companies to realize the importance of web server security.

These companies are charging nominal prices (less than Rs. 1,000) for yearly hosting plans and don’t bother at all for securing customers’ assets.

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EVO isn’t Available in Sargodha, Unlike Claimed by PTCL is a post from: ProPakistani

PTCL in a statement, earlier this week, claimed that it has taken EVO services to more than 100 cities and towns; however, it turned out to be an exaggerated claim or call it falsified one – as service is yet to hit many destinations including Sargodha.

When we checked our local sources in Sargodha, they confirmed that EVO isn’t available in the city. PTCL Exchanges confirmed us the same.

When contacted to find out official viewpoint on this, PTCL said “It is available in pockets and under optimization /testing, will be available in next two days”.

One may wonder what does this pocket availability mean to a common user?

It would be interesting to find out PTCL’s targets and goals that it wanted to achieve by announcing a service (in mainstream media) ahead of its availability.

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India's regular army patrolled the violence-hit streets of Kashmir to enforce a round-the-clock curfew for the first time in two decades Wednesday after weeks of deadly unrest in the Muslim-majority region.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari appealed Wednesday to Chinese business leaders for help in developing his country's ailing energy sector, pointing to nuclear power as one area of growth but making no public mention of a deal with China that has alarmed the U.S. and others.

wi-tribe Drives for Green Initiatives is a post from: ProPakistani

wi-tribe in collaboration with Capital Development Authority (CDA), recently organized “walk-a-cause”, an event where employees embarked on a walk to encourage support for the environment.

wi-tribers set out together from wi-tribe’s head office in F-8 Markaz to Faisal Mosque, in Islamabad. 110 Saplings were planted by various members of wi-tribe’s Islamabad team.

wi-tribe Pakistan’s Vice President of Human Capital, Zaheer Baig commented, “It is a pleasure to be here with fellow wi-tribers. All of us at wi-tribe strive to contribute further to the environment, and to create awareness amongst our friends about the importance of nature, what it gives us and what we must give in return. Companies tend to focus on offices and their built up surroundings and forget about nature, which makes up such a significant part of our world.”

wi-tribe is an environmentally conscious company that encourages initiatives that give back to nature and have positive effects on the environment. wi-tribe also recently implemented a “paperless environment project” prevalent though out all wi-tribe offices in Pakistan.

wi-tribers has always ensured not to neglect its responsibilities to contribute for a greener tomorrow. This is one of many socially responsible initiatives that wi-tribe has taken in the short time since it launched in July 2009.

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Oracle Unveils Oracle® Business Intelligence 11g is a post from: ProPakistani

Oracle today announced Oracle® Business Intelligence 11g, a suite of Business Intelligence products for customers to achieve better business visibility and alignment.

The new release provides the industry’s only unified environment for accessing and analyzing data that resides in relational, OLAP, and XML data sources while enriching the end user experience with a new integrated scorecard application and innovations in enterprise reporting, visualization, search and collaboration.

This will also enhance performance, scalability, and security through deeper integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and other components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

“Oracle Business Intelligence 11g delivers the complete spectrum of business intelligence capabilities, spanning enterprise reporting, scorecards, dashboards, ad hoc queries, OLAP analysis, search, and actionable collaboration on an integrated technology foundation,” said Paul Rodwick, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence.  “The new release is easy to implement for departmental needs, and scales to provide unrivaled performance and scalability for the largest and most demanding enterprise deployments.”

By extending capabilities in the Common Enterprise Information Model, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the first solution that unifies Relational OLAP (R-OLAP), Multidimensional OLAP (M-OLAP) and enterprise reporting on a common technology foundation. Enhanced OLAP analysis capabilities enable users to access and navigate hierarchical data stored in Oracle Essbase and popular relational data sources from a common interface.

A new, integrated thin-client report design editor enables business users to publish both interactive, Web-based reports as well as high fidelity, pixel perfect production reports.

A new application, Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management, is an integrated component of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g that helps individuals track metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with organizational strategy and goals.

“We’ve had a lot of success with Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, and Oracle Business Intelligence 11g will build upon that success,” said Mike Blackmore, Enterprise Architect: Oracle First, BT Innovate & Design.  “The new scorecard and KPI facilities it provides as well as the ability to embed BI within business processes are the features that are drawing interest within BT.  The ability to combine, analyze and then act on data, is going to help BT a great deal.”

The enhanced, task-oriented user interface features a comprehensive range of new interactive charting and prompting capabilities, including map visualization options directly linked to spatial data, to provide a richer, more intuitive end user experience.

The Action Framework feature is a unique and innovative feature that closes the loop between insight and action by enabling users to initiate an action, such as a business process or Web service, directly from their dashboard.

Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the technical foundation for Oracle’s EPM System as well as Oracle BI Applications – the complete, pre-built analytical solutions for Oracle and non-Oracle applications, including SAP.

Through deep integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the only BI foundation that allows system administrators to manage and monitor BI performance from the same environment used to manage their entire IT stack.

End users are notified of exceptions and events, share and discuss insights in real-time, make decisions collaboratively, and save annotations and discussion threads through built-in notification and alert features as well as integration with Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g.

New integration with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search enables casual users to quickly and easily find relevant reports as well as views and metrics within reports, in line with access and security parameters defined within Oracle Business Intelligence 11g.

The addition of Oracle Hyperion Financial Management as a supported data source, in addition to enhanced support for Oracle Essbase, extends Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System integration.

The integrated system management services of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g make it easy for administrators to quickly configure, test, deploy, monitor, and install patches to enable continuous availability, with superior security, scalability, and query performance.

The enhanced Common Enterprise Information Model provides high performance, federated queries against hundreds of data sources in relational, OLAP, and XML formats.

Existing Oracle Business Intelligence customers running earlier releases can upgrade to this new release quickly and easily without impact to existing reports or metadata migration.

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At least two people were injured in a handgrenade attack on a NATO oil tank in Pakistan's southwest city of Chaman which borders Afghanistan, reported local media Eexpress on Wednesday morning.

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE, 6 JULY: Pakistani authorities today said no fresh order has been issued to ban militant groups working under new names or to impose curbs on foreign travel by individuals like JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, though action will be taken only if evidence is found against them.