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Cyberattacks also targeted Gmail rivals

Cyber attackers have attempted to infiltrate web-based email services run by Microsoft and Yahoo as well as Google. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail have been similarly targeted.

There has been a variety of recent attacks on popular webmail platforms. In addition to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail have also been targeted. While the attacks appear to have been separately conducted, these have some significant similarities.

Cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists, Chinese political activists, and officials in several Asian countries, mainly in South Korea. China has denied any involvement. Attacks on Hotmail and Yahoo Mail also appeared aimed at being able to secretly read messages and possibly find ways into other people s accounts.

Once the attackers know what software is installed on a target s computer, including antivirus products, they can craft a precise attack targeting any vulnerable software.

Government said that it will install frustrate border Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) usage at a detriment of Rs 3.7 billion between Pakistan and Chinafor wellbeing of information, reported Business Recorder, quoting certified sources.

Paper said that the must of this impede-country filament optic cable grew after wellbeing concerns from Pakistan and China, who horror the possibility of India monitoring the communication activities, through already active submarine cables.

The launch was deliberated at a latest encounter of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) under the chairmanship Finance Minister Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shakih.

The fling consists of laying 820 km of Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) along the Karakaram Highway, from Rawalpindi to Khunjrab Pass (Chinese border via Mansehra, Chilas, Danyore (Gligit), Karimabad and Sust).

At state, Pakistan’s international connectivity with the world is through submarine cables SEA-ME-WE 3&4 and IMEWE, and Pakistan is related through spurs only.

“This dependency is not only a warning but also entails defense concerns. The state/data and internet transfer can be monitored and bothered easily by India,” sources said. To divert such a threat, sources said, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with China in April 2007 for the establishment of a secure international OFC connect between China and Pakistan along Karakaram Highway which is being widened by China Road and Bridge Company.

Through this foretell, a network will be bent between Pakistan and Trans-Asia Europe (TAE) cable in China, which would enable both Pakistan and China to have alternative routes for their international telecom travel, sources added.

Successful implementation of the launch would present Pakistan with an order telecom access to China and the Central Asian States. Thus, development of telecom infrastructure will simplify trade with these countries and would also promote tourism in the zone, sources quoted Ministry of Information Technology as commenting on the cast.

Apart from refuge assertion, the scheme is projected to engender revenue, about Rs 1.5 billion in the first three time and, in the fourth year, the financial dividends are possible to grow.

The scheme would be funded within Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) and out of a Chinese quiet lend. The mission also involves Rs 3.2 billion distant swap part (FEC).

6.9-magnitude earthquake trembles homes in the mountainous region of China near Tibet

BEIJING - A series of strong earthquakes struck a far western Tibetan area of China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring thousands as houses made of mud and wood collapsed, trapping many more, officials said.

State television channel, CCTV, quoted an emergency official, Pubucairen, as saying that the number of injured was believed to be more than 10,000.

The main temblor of magnitude-6.9 struck in southern Qinghai province, near Tibet, on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The USGS recorded six temblors in less than three hours, all but one registered 5.0 or higher.

BEIJING – Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China’s frigid northeast, state media said Friday.

A manager at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province, however, said the animals had died of disease.

Siberian tigers are one of the world’s rarest species, with just 300 believed remaining in the wild.

China has defended its sale of weapons to Sudan, amid growing criticism of its alleged failure to help resolve the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

China’s special envoy on Darfur told the BBC that Beijing accounted for just 8% of Sudan’s total arms imports.

Liu Guijin said the US, Russia and UK were the biggest arms exporters to developing countries including Sudan.

About 200,000 have died in the five years of conflict between rebels, the army and pro-Khartoum militias.

Mr Liu told the BBC that Chinese weapons were not fuelling the conflict.

“Sudan is the third largest conventional arms producer in Africa next only to South Africa and Egypt.
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