The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
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Couple of things for perspective on this news item:
Pakistanis cannot tire themselves calling China as their all-weather friend. In fact, most of the world knows how China is screwing Pakistan, except the Pakistanis.
Most of the hacking and spamming attempts originate from China, many times sponsored by the Chinese Govt. So, its kinda nice to them face some defacing from their “friends”.
World really hasn’t seen many Pakistani nationals doing something positive in the online world except using it as a conduit for terrorism.
A group of Pakistani hackers are giving sleepless nights to hundreds of agencies and provincial governments in China by defacing their websites. Anti-hacking agencies and sites likePasteBin and the Pakistani media have reported that over 400 Chinese government sites have been attacked by Pakistani groups. This is the first major attack by Pakistani hackersin China, which is particularly supportive of the Islamic neighbour. Hackers in Pakistan have defaced many scientific, military and official websites in India in the past.
A major target for the hackers is Xuchang City in China’s Henan province. It’s largely the handiwork of a hacker who goes by the name ‘code cracker’ and is part of hacking group, Pakistan Cyber Army, according to Hack Read, an information sharing site.
Here is the list of Chinese sites which have been hacked by Code Cracker – list
Wonder if the “professional hacking machine” from China will get into action and strike back? Getting hacked really isn’t a laughing matter no matter where you’re from, but we know most countries do it to one another for one reason or another. Luckily, for businesses, there are ways of fixing hacked wordpress sites and other sites so they can continue without any issue.
Image credit: ZDnet – it is the image left behind by the hackers on the over 400 sites run by Xuchang City People Procuratorate hacked by Pakistani hacker
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
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