The issue of Gmail hacking has taken a serious turn when the government officials from both the countries involved. The U.S is symbolizing these attacks with the cyber war. China is an emerging super power and having 450 million internet users. So China can affect the global economy of internet.

An official newspaper of china has taken this issue and said that Google may have to pay price for these hacking claims. It means China and its government is rejecting the accusations of hacking.

It is written in the People’s Daily overseas edition:

“Deliberately pandering to negative Western perceptions of China, and strongly hinting that the hacking attacks were the work of the Chinese government. Google’s accusations aimed at China are spurious, have ulterior motives, and bear malign intentions. Google should not become overly embroiled in international political struggle, playing the role of a tool for political contention. For when the international winds shift direction, it may become sacrificed to politics and will be spurned by the marketplace.”

China says that Google is just playing bad politics and this accusation process may hurt Chinese business. So Google should stop this. The friction between the China and Google may affect the U.S-China relations as the whole issue has become political.

In past, the relationship of Google and China was tensed because of the hacking and censorship issue. Google has partially come out of China and it is losing much of its business. The issue has become politicized and it should be resolved soon. The officials from both sides are giving statements that may hurt anyone’s feelings.

The investigation process is taking place and it will soon be revealed that who is the culprit. I personally feel that Google is just blaming China and nothing is in between. It is taking revenge from China for the censorship issue.

The issue of Gmail hacking is creating tension between both Google and China. It is also becoming the issue of countries and people are linking it with the cyber military warfare. As this is the era of technology and war between countries can be done in many ways. The physical presence is no issue these days. The people from U.S.A and China both are getting aggressive and denying each other’s statements.

As we all know that China is an emerging super power and it is the hub of world’s electronics so there is a factor of jealousy among various countries including west. Officially neither Google nor U.S officials are blaming the government of China. There are many rumors regarding this hacking issue but most of them are focused on China.

U.S.A never leaves any issue that is related to its sovereignty and they do certain investigations for getting into the roots of it. Though it is bit difficult to know who is actually behind the hacking scene but every possible step will be taken by U.S and Google with the collaboration of FBI. The two military officers from china have written a paper regarding this issue and they mentioned many things in it.

Senior Colonel Ye Zheng and his colleague Zhao Baoxian said:

“Just as nuclear warfare was the strategic war of the industrial era, cyber-warfare has become the strategic war of the information era, and this has become a form of battle that is massively destructive and concerns the life and death of nations. The targets of psychological warfare on the Internet have expanded from the military to the public”

China is also going through the censorship issue regarding facebook and twitter and from this we can know that there are certain restrictions over freedom of expression in China. We cannot comment on it because this is a personal matter of China and they better know what they have to do with it.

Now let me tell you a bit about the place named as Jinan that is in China and some unknown people are accused from that place for hacking. If you see Jinan from Google earth you will notice that it is same as other cities of China having low level construction. It is also having university and lot of railway lines.

Google says that in Jinan there might be servers of computers who have hacked Gmail accounts or there might be a laptop of a hacker from where Gmail accounts have been compromised. Now this cyber attack is considered as a military cyber war and many of military officials from U.S have accepted this.

Now the investigation is going on and we have to see the real culprit behind this, but as I told you before that this issue has become diplomatic and it might affect various countries relationship because of the involvements of senior U.S officials.

Number of malicious programs targeting mobile devices has more than doubled between August 2009 and December 2010.

In 2010, over 65% more new threats targeting mobile devices were detected than in the previous year; said a report published by Kaspersky Lab.

The growing popularity of the Android platform has inevitably drawn the cybercriminals attention: in August 2010, the first malicious program targeting Android was detected, and since then, that number has reached 15 programs from a total of 7 families.

The first threats targeting Apple’s iPhone OS also appeared during this last reporting period, but infected only devices that had been jailbroken in order to install third-party games and other software not manufactured by Apple.

Most mobile threats continue to target the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) platform, which is supported by a huge number of mobile devices. That means it is not only smartphones that are at risk of infection, but basic mobile phones as well. The second most-targeted platform is Symbian, with Python in third place.

The distribution of variants of detected threats, by platform

“The use of SMS Trojans is still the easiest and most effective means by which malicious users can earn money. The reason is relatively simple: any mobile device, be it a smartphone or a basic mobile phone, has a direct connection to its owner’s money via their mobile account. It is this ‘direct connection’ that cybercriminals actively exploit,” said the report.

From 2010 onwards, sending fee-based text messages ceased to be the sole illegal money-making scheme for virus writers developing threats targeting different platforms.

Other unlawful schemes such as redirecting mobile Internet banking users to phishing sites and stealing passwords sent by banks to mobile phones were also used. Mobile threats have become more complex than ever and include the emergence of mobile bots and other remotely-controlled software.

Kaspersky Lab predicts an increase in the number of vulnerabilities found on mobile platforms, as well as an increase in the number of threats for Android and the continued use of short numbers by cybercriminals.

It a recent development, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) lost control of its official website when a hacker, apparently from Pakistan, defaced its official website.

Below is the screen shot provided, courtesy of Google Cache as PML N was quick enough to forward their URL to a backup page available here http://www.pmln.org/.

It looks that Hacker is fed-up of the current state of Pakistan. He tried to record his/her protest by hacking into PML-N’s website and left following comment:

Plz stop filling your own pockets, think about for your country, Our country

Agar yeh hi na raha to tum logun ki jaiban kahan sy bharain gi pir ?

Yeh hai To tum log bi ho and if our Pakistan is not on the map then you won’t be Aswell.

Take sometime and Think about it for a moment

PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
Greetingz : | My lovely Pakistani Nation |

Other political parties can mark this event as a warning for their official websites.

Apparently, the Engro Rupiya of Engro Company has lost its facebook page. According to updated available on Facebook, the page was officially used on 3 back.

However, as per latest status update on the page, a Pakistani hacker is claiming that the page was hacked and he had to re-hack it to brings it back. Hacker is now looking for the real admin to give the page control back to the owner.

Hacker claims that the page was hacked by some Albanian hacker. We are awaiting response from the hacker and the company on the situation.

Meanwhile, go through following conversation made after recent most status update.

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As we are getting into internet era, cyber crime rates are hiking in similar manner. Many of us don’t know how to legally challenge those criminal activities.

A common internet or mobile phone user, who is victim of a cyber crime, thinks that there is no one to listen his/her pleas. Many of victims end up not registering any complaint.

If you are victim of any sort of cyber crime, don’t sit idle, this is the time to react to get the culprits behind the bars. Registering a complaint with FIA’s cyber crime wing is very simple, and even does not require you to go anywhere.

Simply write down your application (in English or in Urdu), narrate your complete problem, provide as much evidences, details as you can and send it to FIA National Response Center for Cyber Crimes(NR3C).

Address this application to,

To Director Cyber Crimes,
FIA Heaquarters, Islamabad

Write down your problem, with complete details… and in the end mention your name, contact numbers and addresses.

Fax: 051-9266435
Email: helpdesk@nr3c.gov.pk (or fill this complaint form)

In case of email, you will get a response email in 24 hours however it may take 7 days to get a letter by post at your given address in case of fax. You will be given a tracking number of your complaint, with what you may check the status of your complaint latter on.

Please note that FIA accepts applications in only these two formats. Cyber Crime wing will not act unless you write them email or FAX. This is sort of FIR you register with Police.

If you want to know what crimes come under Cyber Crime, read this PDF document (Electronic crimes related laws in Pakistan).

You may call FIA Nr3C offices for consultation – Contact details are available here

Tip: Don’t shy or fear of anything – FIA NR3C guys are pretty helping and very cool. If you are a victim, simply reach them at earliest.

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