Posted by: Aamir Attaa on August 26, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Guest Post by Changez Khan
4th InfoSec 2008 International Conference on Information Security, co-organized by National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C), FIA is going to happen tomorrow (August 27, 2008) at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan. This time, the audience will be really shock to see a controversial person in Pakistani Internet Community delivering his presentation on a topic named as: “Cyber Crime Prosecution: Investigation, Forensics Procedure and the Court”.
The organizers of the event may lack the information that this person, a legal expert, named as Zahid Jamil is behind the self proclaimed Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (DNDRC); who is allegedly involved in very serious kinds of Cyber Squatting activities by forming DNDRC under the domain names of DNDRC.com, DNDRC.net, DNDRC.org, DNDRC.info, having confusingly similar domains to the ADNDRC.org the ICANN approved organization.
He has allegedly hijacked .PK domain names such as BUDGET.COM.PK and DJUICE.PK to earn easy money of about 800 USD per case but after receiving tough time by original registrant of DJUICE.PK on his unilateral and biased decision, Zahid Jamil has reportedly closed this business due to severe loss of credibility among the Internet community of Pakistan.
When E-Crime Bill was introduced in the country, he opposed it aggressively on different forums but on the other hand, he is misusing it by threatening the Pakistani people with it. At ICANN, Zahid Jamil admits as “I have also been working informally with the Federal Investigation Agency’s National Response to Cyber Crime Cell (NR3C) in certain cyber crime cases.” http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/jamil-soi-28jun08.shtml
The real owner of a hijacked domain had said on a public forum as: “Yesterday I have received some serious threats via telephonic calls from the DNDRC (Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center for .PK) domains regarding my complaint on the domain; they have pressurized me to withdraw my complaint. As a matter of fact I had already proved them that I have never been contacted by them on this domain dispute…” The DNDRC should have no right to make phone calls to the victims of their decisions to further threaten them.
Zahid Jamil is apparently also involved in Typosquatting, also called URL Hijacking, which, according to Wikipedia, is a form of cybersquatting which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser. Zahid Jamil owned the domain name of DOMIANNAMEDISPUTERESOLUTION.COM (with misspell of DomAin as DomIan) to redirect visitors of DOMAINNAMEDISPUTERESOLUTION.COM, registered by a US based Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C, a Top IP Law Firm of the world located at UN Plaza, New York. http://www.frosszelnick.com
Zahid Jamil also used to impress the Pakistani community as a member of an ICANN constituency (the only member in that constituency from Pakistan) with voting rights in the ICANN structure” but very few people know that Mr. Tim Ruiz of ICANN has replied him while discussing Revised Community Travel Support Procedure for FY09 as: “Zahid, If the policy work of ICANN is not core to your business, why are you involved?( Reference: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg05345.html)
There are also reports circulating that Zahid Jamil is involved in another illegal online Business at www.dotpk.pk which holds Domain Names of Pakistani Business Community illegally like: ARYDIGITAL.PK, DAEWOO.PK, HOLIDAYINN.PK, BEACONHOUSE.PK, LUMS.PK and many more. He is securing the money by selling those held domains, eg: GEONEWS.PK, GOOGLE.PK, NOKIA.PK, etc. By registering .PK Domain Names of Trade Mark Holders with proxy names, he don’t left any option to the business community but to buy domain names at DOTPK.PK or to consult his DNDRC whose fee is 800 USD per case.
Thus, due to his controversial role in cybersquating of his illegal businesses, we should object his any role at national and international level which could harm public interests at the large. A person who himself is violating internet law and openly examples cybersquating should be discouraged to represent at InfoSec 2008.
If someone is interested to know more about him, just type in Google Zahid Jamil DNDRC.
Disclaimer: I found this article of controversial nature and ProPakistani.com does not own and may not agree with discussion carried away in this article by the original writer. Furthermore, I also discovered that some of the content in this article was taken from Pakpoint.com and mobizong.com
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on August 9, 2008 at 8:26 AM
It often happens that we are interested in knowing the approximate location (city name at least) of the person who have sent you an email on your Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail account.
Well, many may not know, but yes you can have the city name of the sender using certain information that comes with your email. When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message.
The email comes with headers (that are normally not displayed in the message) that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. Okay let’s start learning on how you can find the IP address of the sender.
Finding IP address With Gmail
- Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
- Now open any email from your inbox (or the one you want to track the location)
- On the left side of the To panel, click on down arrow button, that will open a drop down menu.
- Click on “Show Original”
- A New window will open, which will have plenty of raw material. Don’t get confused here…! try to find out following line
- Look for “Received: from” Received: from [69.138.30.1] by web4587.mail.***.yahoo.com
- [69.138.30.1] can be different for every mail, as this is the IP address of the sender.
- You may find more than one Received: from patterns, in that case select the last one.
- Now that you have an IP address, you can locate this IP address by puting it in who.is
- open www.who.is and enter this ip address without brackets
- the query will give you the city name of the sender…!
Finding IP address with Yahoo
- Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
- Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
- Open the mail that you want to track back.
- If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers
- Click on Options on the top-right corner
- In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
- Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
- Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
- Click on the Save button
- Go back to the mails and open that mail
- You should see similar headers like above
- Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.
- That is be the IP address of the sender.
- If there are many instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the IP address in the last pattern. If there are no instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the first IP address in X-Originating-IP.
- 7. Track the IP address of the sender
Finding IP address in Hotmail
- Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.
- Click on the Mail tab on the top.
- Open the mail.
- If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,
- Click on Options on the top-right corner
- In the Mail Options page, click on Mail Display Settings
- In Message Headers, make sure Advanced option is checked
- Click on Ok button
- Go back to the mails and open that mail
- You should see the email headers now.
- If you find a header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender’s IP address Hotmail headers. In this case the IP address of the sender is [68.34.60.59].
- Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[
- In this case, the IP address of the sender is [69.140.7.58].
- Or else if you have headers like this
- Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
- In this case, the IP address of the sender is [61.83.145.129] (Spam mail).
- 10. If you have multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that have proxy.anyknownserver.com.11. Track the IP address of the sender
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 28, 2008 at 7:39 PM
Okay, here comes a very demanding PC Suit for Chinese Handsets. You may require this software for your Chinese Handset Synchronization with Computer and enabling Internet Connectivity on handsets.
To Download: Click Here
This software supports majority of Chinese Handset models (thats what the description says) but i have not tested it myself. Please let me know with your feed back.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 21, 2008 at 8:15 AM
PASHA managed to fetch 20 IT companies in PASHA’s Career Expo today (July 20, 2008), in an effort to bridge the gap between fresh graduates and IT industry.
Through the platform, IT companies from across the country mainly focused on job offerings to students and at the same time representatives marketed their respective companies, products, markets trends and potential areas to attendees.
Among the exhibitors were P@SHA, IBM, Intel Pakistan, TRG, Avanza Solutions, PixSense, Etilize, BearingPoint, Online Corporation, TLS, TPS, Server4Sale, Alchemy, MIXIT and others.
Exhibitors reported that they got tremendous response in terms of resumes while students who were maybe expecting much, managed to leave the expo with relatively pleasant feeling.
It was collectively stressed by many that each college and university should have a career counseling department to aid their students in choosing the right direction depending on individual’s capabilities and market flow.
This Career Expo series will repeat in Lahore and Islamabad, which will definitely be beneficial for the Pakistan’s future.
[Pictures Via Netxpress]
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 8, 2008 at 6:42 AM
Pakistan has seen lots of development going on in banking sector in previous decade, with many new banks emerging into scene and offering quality services. They have not only bettered our life standards but also given us more opportunities to expand our businesses locally and globally. Even then, we are still lacking behind when it comes to standards set by developed countries, with missing elements such as e-commerce and mobile commerce.
Corporate entities in Pakistan are well aware of the importance of new era commerce solutions; that is why 
Mobilink has come up with Mobile Commerce also termed as mCommerce with its brand name of Mobilink Genie.
In this post we will discuss what Mobilink Genie is? Its benefits and how it is activated on your Mobilink connection.
What is Mobilink Genie
Introduced back in December 2007 by Mobilink CEO, Zuhair A. Khalique, Mobilink Genie was marketed as a mobile commerce solution to pay utility bills, buying scratch cards and doing other light weight commerce activates through mobile phone.
Mobilink Genie, through a secure process, ties your Credit Card and Bank Account to your Mobilink connection. Hence, allowing you to use your supported credit card or debit account with your mobile phone to pay bills. Unfortunately, you can not shop with Mobilink Genie; however, we may innovations in this in coming months.
Mobilink Genie Charges
- Free introductory offer for all Mobilink customers.
- Application download: Standard GPRS charges apply. (Rs. 18/- per MB for prepaid – for postpaid as per package plan)
- Standard SMS rates apply to all SMS sent to 1610.
- Data Usage: Standard GPRS charges apply. (Rs. 18/- per MB for prepaid – for postpaid as per package plan)
- Utility bill payments will have a service fee of Rs. 20/-
How to Activate Mobilink Genie on your phone?
As it’s clear, this service is for only Mobilink customers (both prepaid and postpaid ones), so get yourself ready for a step by step guide for activating Mobilink Genie.
Getting Prepared; what will you need?
Mobilink Genie is a JAVA application that is installed in your mobile phone. So obviously you will require a handset that supports third party JAVA applications (see here the list of supported phones) and that has GPRS/EDGE enabled on it.
So make sure that
- Your mobile Phone has GRPS enabled on it
- Support Java applications.
- You should have an active Mobilink connection, Jazz or Indigo
- You should have account in one of following banks…This list will grow with time, but currently they are
- CityBank Pakistan
- KASB Bank
- Atlas Bank
So you have got all these 3 things? Great, so now you are ready to move to next step that includes subscribing to Mobilink Genie account.
Subscribing to Mobilink Genie
You will have to subscribe to Mobilink Genie, be careful during this, as the process is very delicate and involves exact procedures to be followed. Process is different for both Indigo and Jazz users, so follow the below steps as per your package type.
For Indigo (postpaid) Users
If you have Indigo connection, then
- Send an SMS with Complete name to 1610 (Aamir Attaa-> send to 1610)
- You will shortly receive a reply informing you of your new Genie Login and Personal Identification Number (PIN) and a URL for JAVA application to download.
- When you receive your login information, Genie service charges are deducted and billed to you. These charges will be added to your monthly indigo bills
- So here you have subscribed to Mobilink Genie, now you need to integrate your Credit Card and banking info with Your Mobilink Connection. Please follow next step for this.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 7, 2008 at 4:35 AM
Through NetExpress, we have learned about this development competition, organized by Google in which any one can participate and earn fame, name and money too.
Primarily, Google Code Jam is a coding competition for those who enjoy solving critical and challenging coding problems, specifically for those youngsters who have got the craze and passion for development. So if you think you are the one, then don’t delay and get your self registered here…!
I hope that lot of Pakistani coders would be jumping into the pool and would outshine everyone.
Mind you that registrations are open till July 17th 2008 only.
About Google Code Jam
is a coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you program in the coding language and development environment of your choice.
Google Code Jam begins in July and continues in August, when you will compete in online rounds against contestants from around the world. The Top 500 participants will advance to onsite competitions at a local Google office to compete against those in their region (Asia Pacific; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and the Americas). The Top 100 will participate in the final round at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California on Friday, November 14.
Don’t be left out! Make sure to register between June 17 and July 17, and show your coding creativity in Google Code Jam.
Yes there is money in the game too, top 100 finalists will divide over $80,000 in prize money:
| Competitor(s) |
Prize |
| 1st Place |
$10,000 |
| 2nd Place |
$5000 |
| 3rd Place |
$2500 |
| 4th – 10th Place |
$1500 |
| 11th – 30th Place |
$1000 |
| 31st – 50th Place |
$750 |
| 51st – 75th Place |
$500 |
| 76th – 100th Place |
$250 |
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 3, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Few days back, Mr. Adnan Saeed, Project Manager, MoITT sent an email to a public forum, in which he put forward a message that read like below
Government of Pakistan has initiated a broad based consultative process to formulate National IT Policy for the next five years. In order to make a realistic and practical policy the Government intends to involve all the stakeholders in this consultative process.
Kindly send your comments to asaeed@moitt.gov.pk latest by 31st of July 2008. You can post your comments as well on virtual group at http://www.nidu.gov.pk/forum
Adnan Saeed
Project Manager (NIDU), MoITT
Ph: 9209269
asaeed@moitt.gov.pk
For Information
Syed Muhammad Anwer
Project Director
National IT Development & Promotion Unit(NIDU)
Director Legal, MoITT
Ph: 051-9218967, Fax: 051-9201012
Email: smanwer@moitt.gov.pk
So now you are not in any position to complain that the Ministry of IT and Telecom hasn’t asked the opinion of private sector while revamping IT policy. They did their job; now Gurus are requested to come forward with your feedback and let’s dictate the fate of Pakistan’s IT industry for at-least coming five years.
To read out current IT policy, please point your browsers to this document (National-IT-Policy-2000) Right Click and Select “Save Target As” - File Size: 1.05 MB
Call Centers, IT industry, investments, taxes on businesses, role of PTCL and broadband in the country are few of many elements which should be addresses in new IT Policy
Read it out, and have your say. I will also come up with another post in few days with suggestions from the people I know.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on June 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM
We saw that the download counter was turning real slow in the start, which didn’t rolled 5/6 downloads per second, however, the latter on in the day the counter was well geared sending more than 1000 downloads per second (personal observation)
Official release says that Firefox 3 browser was downloaded 8.3 million times thus Mozilla beat its goal of 5 million downloads by 3 million and set a new world record, massive one day download….
Mozilla’s servers sent out 83 terabytes of data during these 24 hours, and at the peak there were 17,000 downloads per second (with an average of 4,000 per second). The browser was downloaded in 200 different countries, with the top ten being
- U.S.
- Germany
- Japan
- Spain
- UK
- France
- Iran
- Italy
- Canada
- Poland
Snapshot of counter, which is currently offline and not displaying any stats (Snapshot taken from MozilaLinks)
So the Iranians loved Firefox, i was wondering where is India or China in this list?
We also saw some server crashes during the while, obviously, not a big deal when this much of data was being coming out from the servers.
Firefox 3, as a browser seems nice, smart, lightweight, quite quick and with less bugs. However, few extensions may not work in early days.
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