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Indians hack Karachi Press Club's website
Pakistani hackers retaliated by taking down the Press Club of India website.
Indian hacker group "Immortals" claiming their hack of Karachi Press Club's website.
KARACHI: In the ongoing cyber war between Pakistan and India, Indian hackers had managed to hack the website of a press club located in Karachi.
The Karachi Press Club’s website www.karachipressclub.com had been hacked on Monday and its pages defaced by hackers who claimed in their messages that they were Indian and were known by their alias “IMMORTALS”. They posted a ‘Jai Hind’ cry on the website after redoing it in a matrix like screen.
The defaced page looked similar to the defacing Pakistani hackers had done to the website of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation in early December 2010.
Both countries have had a rich history of tit-for-tat website hacking that has seen internet security companies on both sides of the border stretched to the limit.
Hacking attacks had grown in number and intensity with Pakistani hackers breaking into the Indian CBI website which started off a mini war as Indian hackers retaliated, hacking in to 36 Pakistani websites.
In March of this year, the official website of Pakistan Muslim League –N was hacked and defaced, with the hackers calling on the party leaders to end corruption. The attack, contrary to tradition, was not claimed by any hacker group. Oddly though, the homepage was defaced in a manner similar to the earlier CBI website and the current Karachi Press Club website.
Retaliation
The Pakistani ‘tat’ came mere hours after the Indian ‘tit’, with a Pakistani hacker group “KhantastiC Haxor”, hacking into an Indian website www.pressclubofindia.org , and posting a note on its now defaced homepage.
The message from the Pakistani hacker group claimed that their retaliatory hack was a warning to Indian hackers to stop hacking Pakistani sites. KhantastiC Haxor claimed that they did not harm any site component, nor was it their intent to leak information contained within the website.
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Moral of the story: grow up!Recommend
I CONDEMN IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE WORDS THE ATTACK BY HACKERS ON THE KARACHI PRESS CLUB WEBSITE. THESE PEOPLE HAVE A TUNNEL VISION AND SMALL THINKING. IT IS OUR MEDIA WHO TOOK A BOLD STANCE AND STARTING THE AMAN KE ASHA AND OTHER PROGRAMMES TO ENCOURAGE PEACE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
I ALSO CONDEMN THE PAKISTANI HACKER GROUP WHO ALSO HACKED INDIA WEBSITES. ALTHOUGH THE PAKISTAN KHANTASTIC HAXOR CLAIMED THAT THEY DID NOT HARM ANY COMPONENT, NOR WAS IT THEIR INTENT TO LEAK INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THE WEBSITE. I APPEAL TO BOTH SIDES TO LET BETTER SENSE PREVAIL AND AMAN KEE ASHA.
AZAM SULTAN AHMED
FREE LANCE WRITER & SON
OF LATE SULTAN AHMED
EX-PRESIDENT KARACHI PRESS CLUB
1966-67Recommend
lol. Hilarious. love it. Now kiss and make up and do some tradeRecommend
very naughty people bothRecommend
http://www.pressclubofindia.org/Recommend
haha! Good work KhantastiC boys. It’s nice that you did not damage the content. I’ve always wished to be a hacker! sighRecommend
Its good for both countries…. Both will make better n safe websitesRecommend
@Azam Sultan Ahmed:
I agree with you sir. Both sides need to grow up.
It is evident that both groups have talented people. Sharp and disciplined.
But isn’t that the case in most matters?
When Pakistanis and Indians work together, we make a formidable team.
I vouch for this, because I work for a US MNC, and we have
Pakistani, Indian, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi working in the same group.
This is the true reality. Sometimes, I think, that we realise our strength,
because we are away from the toxic environment in South Asia.
Which is why expats (Desis as we call ourselves), can see and rue
the utter waste and misdirected efforts and resources.
Grow up guys. Please. Let us change our destiny … not deface it.
Literally or figuratively.Recommend
childishness at its best from both sides!!!Recommend
Rather than hacking and cracking each other’s website (and heads), we need to think about synergy. A lot of good energy is being wasted here.Recommend
They should hack minimum 200 Indian websites now, then we will think about forgiving the Indian hackers.Recommend
non-state actors!Recommend
Until and unless both creatures on both sides do not wake up and realize that all this is being done at the behest of invisible hands who wish to despoil both our nations into strife and discord, Civil wars is the name of the game, it is quite evident that if this utter nonsense does not stop then both countries will be ripped apart within a blink of an eye.Recommend
I prefer cyber-warfare to nuclear war any day. Good job!Recommend
If only we could export the entire conflict to virtual servers and get on with life!Recommend
@Who cares
well then we will hack all the Pakistani website….lolzzRecommend