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26/11 Anniversary: Indian Cyber Army Hacks Pakistan’s Top Military Blog

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Country’s top Military blog, PakSoldiers.com has been hacked by 
Indian Cyber Army, apparently to commemorate the anniversary of Mumbai 
Attacks.<br />
Hackers, claiming the responsibility of the hack said that they are 
part of Indian Cyber Army and defacement of PakSoldiers is a tribute to 
solders and citizens who lost their lives during 26/11 incident in 
Mumbai.<br />
This has happened despite the fact that Indian Government was exposed
 for allegedly staging the Mumbai Incident to formulate anti-terrorism 
laws.<br />
PakSoldiers is an award winning platform for Military affairs and related resources.<br />
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Ghulam Sarwar, the Editor and Found of PakSoldiers confirmed RexHacker that they are in process of restoring the website. It is 
still unclear if any data is lost or not.<br />
It is assumed that Hackers exploited a notorious bug in VBulletin to get into the servers.<br />
Here is the defaced screen:<br />
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26/11 Anniversary: Indian Cyber Army Hacks Pakistan’s Top Military Blog

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Samsung Announces The Galaxy Grand 2

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Last year, Samsung did its first major attempt in offering a phablet for a acceptable price through the Galaxy Grand. Now, they’re announcing a successor to that phone now, through the Galaxy Grand 2.<br />

The Grand 2 builds upon its predecessor by offering a larger, 
higher-resolution display, faster internals and a new, leather-like 
finish. These features bring it closer to the <a href="http://rexhacker.blogspot.com/2013/09/samsung-launches-3rd-generation-note.html" target="_blank">Note 3</a>.<br />

On the front, you’ll get a 5.25 inch LCD display with 720p HD 
resolution and Gorilla Glass 2 protection. Another change people will 
notice is the new leather-like finishing on the phone, just like the 
Note 3 unlike the plastic of the first-generation Grand.<br />
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Just like first Grand, the Grand 2 will have a dual-sim version as well.<br />

On the hardware side, the Grand 2 comes with a 1.2Ghz quad-core 
processor, 1.5 GB worth RAM and 8 GB internal storage, expandable by up 
to 64 GB via microSD card slot.<br />

Around the back lies an 8 megapixel camera with Full HD video 
recording and LED Flash. A 1.9 megapixel front-facer can be found too.<br />

The operating system running on the Grand 2 is Android v4.3 Jelly Bean, of course customized with Samsung’s own Touchwiz UI.<br />

Here are the full specs of Samsung’s latest toy:<br />

<ul>
<li>Android 4.3 Jelly Bean customized with Touchwiz UI</li>
<li>5.25 inch LCD display with 720p HD resolution of 720 x 1280</li>
<li>8.9mm thick</li>
<li>163g heavy</li>
<li>Optional Dual-Sim</li>
<li>1.2Ghz quad-core processor with 1.5 GB RAM</li>
<li>8 GB internal storage, expandable by up to 64 GB via microSD</li>
<li>8 megapixel rear-camera with Full HD 1080p video recording</li>
<li>1.9 megapixel front-camera</li>
<li>dual-band Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0</li>
<li>2600 mAh battery</li>
<li>Available in White, Black and Pink</li>
</ul>
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Brit Spies Spoof LinkedIn Pages to Track Targets

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Officially, no one knows anything, but if the 
latest revelations from Edward Snowden's storehouse of inside 
information on global surveillance activities can be believed, then it's
 highly likely Britain's counterpart to the NSA has been hacking into 
telecoms. GCHQ apparently redirected network engineers to spoofed 
LinkedIn pages and loaded their computers with malware to gain access.</div>
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British intelligence agency 
<a href="http://www.gchq.gov.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx" target="_blank">GCHQ</a>
 (Government Communications Headquarters) has spoofed LinkedIn profiles 
of employees at mobile communications companies and mobile billing firms
 to gain access to their corporate networks, <em>Der Spiegel</em> reported.</div>
The first known attack was on Belgacom, a telecom firm partly owned 
by the Belgian government, according to a top secret GCHQ presentation 
revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. That attack was among 
projects launched by GCHQ to infiltrate foreign networks.<br />

The British intelligence agency also targeted international mobile 
billing clearinghouses, which process international payment transactions
 between wireless companies.

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Hitting US Companies
</h2>
<a href="http://www.syniverse.com/home" target="_blank">Syniverse</a> 
and Mach, a company it acquired in July, are high on the list of 
clearinghouses GCHQ has targeted for such penetration, according to <em>Der Spiegel</em>.<br />

GCHQ  apparently has targeted three network engineers at Mach, using the Quantum Insert method.<br />

Syniverse provides solutions that let different mobile technologies 
interoperate around the world. With its acquisition of Mach, it serves 
more than 1,500 mobile service providers, enterprises, ISPs and app 
providers in nearly 200 countries.<br />

"There have been no known breaches of the Syniverse or Mach data 
centers by any government agency," Syniverse spokesperson Bobby Eagle 
told TechNewsWorld. "Privacy and confidentiality are essential 
priorities for Syniverse, and we take these matters very seriously."

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The Essence of GCHQ's Attack
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The British intelligence service is, basically, redirecting traffic to 
and from targets to a server between them so it can intercept 
communications.<br />

This is known as a "man in the middle" attack.<br />

Such attacks are commonly used on the banking sector. iMessages 
<a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79230.html" target="_blank">are vulnerable to MITM</a>, Quarkslab disclosed in October.<br />

"Man-in-the-middle attacks are one of the oldest kinds of attacks out there," Daniel Castro, senior analyst at the 
<a href="http://www.itif.org/" target="_blank">Information Technology and Innovation Foundation</a>, told TechNewsWorld.

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We Are the (Tainted) World
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GCHQ's techniques are strikingly similar to the ones used by 
cybercriminals when they launch targeted attacks, such as spearphishing.<br />

The agency first determines who works for a target company using 
publicly available data such as the victim's LinkedIn profile. It 
apparently focuses on IT personnel and network admins because they have 
extensive access privileges on their computers.<br />

The agency then gathers all available information about its victim --
 in one case, even gaining access to cookies on a victim's PCs -- then 
develops what are essentially viruses in payloads customized for the 
victim's computers.<br />

One method of attack involved concealing the malware payloads on 
spoofed versions of victims' LinkedIn pages. Pulling up the fake profile
 would launch the malware into the victim's computer.<br />

"We have never cooperated with any government agency, nor we have any
 knowledge, with regard to these actions," LinkedIn spokesperson Julie 
Inouye told TechNewsWorld.<br />

"To date, we have not detected any of the spoofing activity that is 
being reported," she said. "LinkedIn takes the privacy and security of 
our members very seriously, and when we're made aware of any activity 
that may be considered problematic, we work to quickly shut it down."

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The Sincerest Form of Flattery
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It appears that GCHQ borrowed heavily from the United States' National Security Agency.<br />

The NSA 
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/how_the_nsa_att.html" target="_blank">places secret servers</a>,
 codenamed "Quantum," at key places on the Internet backbone as part of 
its so-called "Turmoil" system, according to security specialist Bruce 
Schneier.<br />

Turmoil is part of the NSA's 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_%28NSA%29" target="_blank">Turbulence</a> program.<br />

Once the Quantum servers are in place, a query to a website they are 
spoofing hits them before it hits the legitimate site. The query is then
 redirected to another set of secret Internet servers, codenamed 
"FoxAcid," Schneier said.<br />

The FoxAcid servers then inject malware into victims' PCs to compromise them.<br />

It's not clear whether the UK agency is using the same technology as the NSA, although <em>Der Spiegel</em> uses the term "Quantum Insert" in its description of the GCHQ attacks.<br />

"Capturing large amounts of Internet traffic and redirecting it like that should be off limits," the ITIF's Castro remarked.</div>

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How to Make Windows 8 Look Like Win 7 on Your PC

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the 
old saying goes, and that's just as true for operating systems as it is 
elsewhere in life. Not thrilled with Windows 8's lack of a Start button,
 for example? Not to worry. You can take matters into your own hands and
 bring it back -- along with the Windows Desktop and a number of other 
comfortingly familiar features.</div>
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Windows 8's blah reception 
from many computer users may have been due at least in part to a 
peculiar trait that we humans have, and that's our obsession with 
improvement.</div>
Improving our lot has been a fixation throughout virtually all of 
human history, so it shouldn't come as any great surprise that Microsoft
 couldn't help itself when it became time to update its OS -- an OS that
 we had all learned to use expertly over the last 20 years or so.<br />
That obsession, along with a need to keep about 100,000 employees 
occupied, resulted in Windows 8's improvements over Windows 7 -- the 
strange omission of the Start button and the hiding of the Windows 
Desktop, that icon-studded screen we used to launch into.<br />
Well, if you don't like improvement, are simply a Luddite or just 
fondly miss the Windows Desktop, you can take matters into your own 
hands. Here's how to start Windows 8.1 into Desktop mode -- bypassing 
the new, improved tile-based look -- plus a couple of other tricks.
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Update Windows 8 to Free Windows 8.1 (If You Haven't Already)
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<b>Step 1:</b> Make a backup of your personal files by swiping
 in from the right edge of the screen and choosing Search. Enter the 
term File History Settings and then click on the results and follow the 
instructions to perform the backup.<br />
<i>Tip:</i> You'll need an external drive, like a USB memory drive.<br />
<b>Step 2:</b> Touch or click on the Store tile on the Start page.<br />
<b>Step 3:</b> Choose the free Windows 8.1 Update and 
select Download. Allow the update to proceed and complete. Then restart 
the PC and sign in.
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Configure the Desktop Startup
</h2>
<b>Step 1:</b> Launch the Desktop from the Start page by clicking on the tile labeled Desktop.<br />
<b>Step 2:</b> Right-click on the Taskbar.<br />
<i>Tip:</i> The Taskbar is the solid-colored strip below the wallpaper.<br />
<b>Step 3:</b> Choose Properties and then the Navigation tab in the resulting box.<br />
<b>Step 4:</b> Scroll down to the dialog, "When I sign in 
or close all apps on a screen, go to the Desktop instead of Start," and 
check the checkbox. Click on OK.<br />
The next time you restart your computer, the Start tile-based page 
will be skipped, and you'll launch into a Windows 7-style desktop 
instead. Hooray for the Luddites.<br />
<i>Tip:</i> While you're on the Desktop page, check out the 
new-in-Windows 8.1 Windows icon in the bottom-left corner. It's a Start 
button of sorts, and clicking on it alternates you between the 
tile-infested Start page and the lovable classic Desktop page.
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Launching Into the App Page
</h2>
Adding insult to injury in the Windows 8 environment, you may have 
noticed that the Start page -- the one with all of the newfangled tiles 
-- doesn't include all of the apps that you've painstakingly searched 
for and downloaded.<br />
The full listing of apps are in a page called Apps, not Start. You 
can get to the Apps page by clicking on the new-in-Windows 8.1 Down 
arrow in the bottom-left corner of the Windows 8.1 Start page if you 
want to see that page.<br />
Here's how to launch straight into Apps from Desktop, bypassing Start.<br />
<b>Step 1:</b> Launch the Desktop from the Start page by clicking on the tile labeled Desktop.<br />
<b>Step 2:</b> Right-click on the Taskbar.<br />
<b>Step 3:</b> Choose Properties and then the Navigation tab in the resulting box.<br />
<b>Step 4:</b> Scroll down to the dialog, "Show the Apps view automatically when I go to Start," and check the checkbox. Click on OK.<br />
The next time you click on the Windows icon in the bottom left corner
 of the Desktop, you'll go to Apps instead of Start. Now that's an 
improvement.
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Getting Closer to 3G: PTA Selects Consultant for Spectrum Auction

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, after evaluating technical and 
financial bids, has hired “Value Partners Management Consulting Limited”
 for consultancy services during upcoming auction of next generation 
3G/4G licenses.<br />

PTA said that out of <a href="http://rexhacker.blogspot.com/2013/11/moving-towards-3g-7-firms-bid-for-3g.html" target="_blank">seven firms that submitted bids</a>, VPMC was selected for best technical and financial feasibility.<br />

<a href="http://www.valuepartners.com/" target="_blank">VPMC</a>, 
with its head office in Milan, Italy, has presence in seven countries 
across Europe, Asia and South America. Pakistan’s spectrum auction will 
be overseen by company’s Singapore Office.<br />
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After selection of consultant in due time, PTA has achieved one phase
 of its target of meeting the deadlines for auctioning 3G licenses.<br />

Hired consultant will now prepare the Information Memorandum for 
auction of next generation licenses. It is said that preparation of IM 
may take from 30-45 days.<br />

After finalization of IM – around mid-January – it will be floated 
into the market for telecom operators to get themselves prepared for the
 3G auction.<br />

Expected date for auction of 3G licenses is around last week of February 2014.</div>

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Pakistan May Block Etisalat-Warid Deal for Non-Payment of $800 Million

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High-ups at Pakistan Government are considering its options to block 
possible buyout of Warid Telecom of Pakistan by Etisalat of UAE, sources
 familiar with the development told RexHacker.<br />
<a href="http://rexhacker.blogspot.com/2013/10/ptcl-submits-non-binding-offer-to.html" target="_blank">Etisalat and VimpelCom of Russia have submitted bids</a>
 for buying Warid Telecom of Pakistan with its 12 million subscribers. 
While outcome of the bid is yet to surface, Etisalat is ranked favourite
 to take away the Warid Telecom.<br />
The decision to block Etisalat-Warid deal came at a time when UAE’s 
state run telecom giant has straight-forwardly told Pakistan government 
that it <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/24/pakistan-etisalat-idUSL5N0J42O420131124" target="_blank">will not pay remaining USD 800 million</a> against buyout of 26 percent shares in PTCL due to property dispute between the two parties.<br />
Etisalat has held USD 800 million for around 8 years because Pakistan
 government has failed to transfer the ownership of around 100 – out of 
3,000 – properties due to legal limitations.<br />
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Pakistan has repeatedly offered Etisalat to deduct the value of disputed 100 properties – around USD 73 million – and clear the remaining amount it owes against the deal that happened in 2005.<br />
Etisalat, on the other hands, maintains that it will not pay a single
 penny unless all the properties are not transferred as a whole.<br />
Pakistan has tried almost every possible option to get the issue 
resolved, however, the remaining properties – the bone of contention – 
are confined due to legal limitations and are likely to not get 
transferred anytime soon.<br />
As a result, now Pakistan government is considering options to block the possible buyout of Warid Telecom by Etisalat.<br />
Sources familiar with the situation said that it is still unclear 
that how the Etisalat-Warid deal will be blocked or even if there is any
 legal room available to achieve this, but government is definitely 
ready to take up the situation to give Etisalat a tough time.</div>

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