June 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said.

The perpetrators appeared to originate from Jinan, the capital of China’s eastern Shandong province, Google said. Jinan is home to one of six technical reconnaissance bureaus belonging to the People’s Liberation Army and a technical college that U.S. investigators last year linked to a previous attack on Google.Read More »Google reveals Gmail hacking, says likely from China

By Qaisar Sultan

The character of people and nation may be defined by their reaction to their mistakes. The mistakes in the life of individuals and nations are natural. The way nature works that the life may learn through its mistakes to evolve. The hyenas in the jungle learn by their mistake of challenging and attacking the lionesses in the presence of male lion. This survival mode is being transferred into the genes and the experience of each pack of hyenas. The mistakes of challenging the lions make hyenas clever in dealing with the lions.  The Pakistani leaders have no problem challenging the most powerful country in the world. We, humans, have hard time accepting and rectifying our mistakes; that is a flaw in the weak people’s character. As the simple saying goes, “We all make mistakes”- That is one truth that most of us cannot deny. The great nations made not only mistakes but blunders; those that survived learnt from those mistakes and corrected them. We may find a great debate in the differences between the mistakes made by the wise and imbeciles; there is always a thin line to differentiate; both could be simply innocent or lack of appropriate wisdom in a particular affair. But there is another mortally caustic element in this regard, called willful transgression from the natural, civil and moral laws or norms; they always come to haunt the individuals and nations. We may assign these willful mistakes to the original sin which demonstrated the willful transgression of Adam. They are two ways looking at mistakes; first is to recognize that a mistake is made; and second is to figure out how and who made the mistake, and finally how do we correct them? The question is always raised regarding the ingrained sense of rectitude in the very basis of a society and individual life- That the debauchery becomes part of the justification for all the wickedness and wrong; the mistakes and moral decay represent the very basis of our social and moral conducts.Read More »Mistakes or Willful Transgressions