Gujarat government website crop. By Hack

Pakistan, by a group of hackers and cyber mafia gandhinagarasthita kamisanoreta Ahmedabad APMC of higher education as well, including the widely used website hacked horrified. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has written about hackers to abuse.

On the opening screen of the Higher Education kamisanoreta www.egyan.org.in website 'hacked by Pakistani cyber mafia, Pike robot Was Here "with the message that the Indian prime minister wrote about the abuse. Pakistan Zindabad also had the same logo. Within an hour of the website server had been put under maintenance mode, turn the page on the website approximately 11.30 on Saturday had generated HTTP Error 500.19.

Hackers discussion page on Facebook

Hackers attack websites of those who identified himself as Pakistan cyber mafia, as well as people with an update on Facebook has put his t www.facebook.com/ PakCyberMafiaHackers domain, in which the green color of the logo, as well as the details of what has been placed in a website targeted at .

Cyber ​​security question

If any group of hackers can hack the website of the government of the state education department to another website could be the most important, and the data can not be sure what the heck?
As bassinet government websites

Government offices and websites are updated, such as a bassinet. Rajkot diio primary education department's website as well as to the fact that there was a display of old details.
Hacked website

      www.apmcahmedabad.com (Saturday 5 AM)
      www.listtopcolleges.in (Saturday 5 A.M.)
      egyan.org.in (Saturday 5 A.M.)
      delhi-pharma.com (Saturday 3 A.M.)
      atnnetwork.in (Saturday 3 A.M.)

Note: All websites linked to https://www.facebook.com/PakCyberMafiaHackers Hackers Group's Facebook page has been placed.
Investigation launched

'E-watchfulness,' Heck, we were keeping the details of the date of closing vebaportala there mukayelam objectionable facts, writings are removed. Viral History of the Science and Technology Department has been using it for the purpose it was put to the Google account, now is the e-watchfulness purvavarta. This is the website of our department. Is operated by a private organization, such an investigation has been launched. Procedures should be. ''

WhatsApp founders own nearly $9 billion in Facebook stock

 WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton received 116 million shares of Facebook stock currently worth nearly $9 billion when they sold their mobile messaging service to the social networking leader earlier this month.

 WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton received 116 million shares of Facebook stock currently worth nearly $9 billion when they sold their mobile messaging service to the social networking leader earlier this month.

The breakdown of the big winners in Facebook Inc.'s $22 billion acquisition emerged Wednesday in a regulatory filing.

Koum, a Ukraine immigrant who was once living on welfare, reaped the biggest jackpot with 76.4 million Facebook shares now worth $5.8 billion. That makes him Facebook's fourth largest stockholder behind company CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two mutual funds, Fidelity Management and Vanguard.

Acton, who worked with Koum when they were both Yahoo Inc. engineers, owns 39.7 million Facebook shares worth $3 billion.

More than 45 other WhatsApp current and former employees also received Facebook stock
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Facebook spending gets thumbs up from analysts

Facebook, which reported stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, projected a 55-75% increase in spending in 2015 for investments that will eat into its near-term profit.

Another day, another quarterly report from a technology company that disappointed investors.

Facebook Inc's shares fell as much as 7.4% to $74.78 in early trading on Wednesday, a day after the company revealed aggressive spending plans for 2015. 

But analysts were taking a more upbeat view, saying the heavy spending will drive long-term growth and reinforce the social networking giant's market dominance. 

No brokerages cut their recommendation on the company following the release of its third-quarter results, and several said the price decline represented a buying opportunity. 

At least 15 brokerages cut their price targets on the stock, by as much as $8 to as low as $78, mainly to reflect the company's expense and revenue outlook. 

"FB delivered another strong quarter and is very well-positioned in an increasingly mobile and social internet landscape, and to be clear, FB is investing into strength and future growth opportunities," JP Morgan Securities analysts said in a research note. JP Morgan rates Facebook "overweight", with a price target of $85, down from $90. 

Of 44 analysts covering the stock, 15 rate it a "strong buy," 22 a "buy" and seven a "hold." Nobody rates the stock a "sell", according to Thomson Reuters data. 

The drop in Facebook's share price follows a now-familiar script this corporate reporting season. 

Shares of Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc, Google Inc and Netflix Inc also fell after the companies failed to live up to investor expectations. 

In most cases, their shares have recovered. 

"We have already seen relatively rapid share price recoveries post Q3 EPS corrections - Amazon up 4%, eBay and Google up 7%, Netflix up 16% — so this market is buying beaten-down Net stocks," RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney, who has an "outperform" rating on the stock, wrote in a note. 

Spending big
Facebook, which reported stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, projected a 55-75% increase in spending in 2015 for investments that will eat into its near-term profit. 

The company's costs and expenses rose 32% in the first nine months of the year. 

"Comparable investment of the scale that Facebook is contemplating can only be achieved by them or by Google... We see further investment reinforcing their relative dominance in digital advertising for years to come," Pivotal Research analysts said in a report, maintaining a "buy" rating. 

Facebook has spent billions of dollars to buy fast-growing companies such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus as it tries to boost its reach, especially among the young. 

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who has an "overweight" call on the stock, said that while spending would hurt earnings in the short term, Facebook's broad product portfolio would start to benefit the business over the next six to eight quarters. 

Up to Tuesday's close, Facebook's shares had risen almost 50 percent since the start of the year. 

"While the shares aren't exactly 'for sale' we are buyers of this dip," RBC's Mahaney said
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BlackBerry CEO 'teases' Classic phone in open letter to users

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has penned an open letter to current and former BlackBerry users in a push to create some buzz for the company's new Classic device.

BlackBerry Ltd chief executive John Chen has penned an open letter to current and former BlackBerry users in a push to create some buzz for the company's new BlackBerry Classic device, which is set to debut later this year. 

The Classic, which bears striking similarities to the company's once wildly popular Bold smartphone, will come with a complete top row of navigation keys and a trackpad. Those are features that many BlackBerry fans missed when the company rolled out its revamped BlackBerry 10 line of devices last year. 

Chen conceded that the company has made some mistakes in the last few years saying: "It's tempting in a rapidly changing, rapidly growing mobile market to change for the sake of change — to mimic what's trendy and match the industry-standard, kitchen-sink approach of trying to be all things to all people." 

"When we lose sight of what you want and you need, we lose you," he said, in a letter published on the BlackBerry blog. 

The letter from Chen comes two days after reality television star Kim Kardashian created a stir by professing her "love" for BlackBerry devices, and confessing that she owns a cache of Bold devices, at a conference organized by tech news website Re/code in California. 

Chen, who stepped in to take the reins at BlackBerry when the company was faltering badly a year ago, has moved rapidly to get BlackBerry back on track, selling some assets, partnering to make its manufacturing and supply chain more efficient, and raising cash via the sale of the company's extensive real estate holdings in Waterloo, Ontario, where it is headquartered. 

In September, the company launched an unconventional square-screened smartphone, the BlackBerry Passport. The Classic is set to have a bigger and sharper screen than its predecessor, the Bold, along with a much larger app catalog and a myriad of other features. 

"We are committed to earning your business — or earning it back, if that's the case," he said, promising the company would share more details about the Classic in coming weeks
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Apple, Wal-Mart at logger heads over mobile payments

 Suddenly it's Apple versus Wal-Mart in the fight for shoppers' digital wallets.

With the development of a new mobile payment system, a group of retailers led by Wal-Mart Stores is aiming to upend the $4.5 trillion credit card market and control the precious transaction data generated at the checkout line.

The difficulty of the task became clear this week when drugstore chains CVS Health and Rite Aid, in a move apparently aimed at shoring up the retailers' pay system, stopped accepting payments on Apple's iPhones. That prompted consumers to complain that they were being denied a user-friendly payment option.

The "skirmish," as Apple CEO Tim Cook put it this week, is the latest dispute to emerge from the Byzantine world of payment systems, which is dominated by banks and credit card firms.

Many payment experts said they are skeptical that the retailer-backed system, known as CurrentC, can gain traction, let alone thwart Apple Pay, a payment system launched by the iPhone maker last week. CurrentC is set to go live in 2015.

The retailers' main objective appears to be to push credit card companies out of the payment equation, or at least get them to lower their costs.

"CurrentC is built for retailers, to help them cut out interchange fees," said Nick Aceto, senior director at payment technology firm CardConnect, referring to the fees paid by retailers to credit card companies when a shopper makes a purchase. "It's not a solution that will appeal to customers because it does not make their lives any easier."

That's not stopping the retailers from trying, and their consortium, the Merchant Customer Exchange, has clout, with $1 trillion in annual sales. In addition to Wal-Mart, its members include Best Buy and Target.

MCX officials said CurrentC will work on any phone, integrating loyalty programs and payments into one transaction. While the group's focus is helping consumers, they said, it hopes to shake up the payment system.

"MCX and the merchants that founded MCX are challenging ... an entrenched, very large status quo, a $500 billion ecosystem on the payments side," chief executive Dekkers Davidson said on a conference call Wednesday.

Davidson said MCX has made arrangements with two credit card companies and wants to partner with large issuers. But he did not say whether MCX would be willing to work with the likes of Visa and Mastercard and pay them conventional rates on interchange fees. Eventually, he said, "We expect that all cards will be welcome at CurrentC."

Wal-Mart, which has made little secret of its disdain for paying processing charges, is suing Visa for $5 billion for what it says are excessive card swipe fees.

Credit card firms typically charge 2% to 3% of the value of each transaction. Retailers paid $66 billion in credit-card-related fees in 2013, out of $4.5 trillion in spending tied to major US cards, according to the Nilson Report.

In contrast to Apple Pay, which encrypts payment data and keeps it out of the hands of retailers, CurrentC connects directly to a customer's bank account. It will allow retailers to glean valuable data on spending patterns, which they can use to better target advertising and drive loyalty programs.

There would be no pooling of data across retailers, Davidson said, and shoppers can opt to remain anonymous. "Consumers will determine how they are marketed to or not marketed to," he said.

MCX says CurrentC will be secure, an assertion that was tested on Wednesday when the group confirmed that hackers had obtained the e-mail addresses of some participants in a pilot program.

While Wal-Mart has said it has no plans to support Apple Pay, its rival Target is taking a more nuanced approach. Target has said it plans to use MCX for in-store checkout but is allowing Apple Pay for online purchases through its mobile app. Target is featured on the Apple Pay website.

MCX members have made up-front payments of $200,000 to $500,000 to join the group and signed multiyear agreements, according to people familiar with contract terms.

MCX said on Wednesday that when retailers join the consortium they do so on an exclusive basis, but there are no fines if they leave the group.

Walgreen, a rival to CVS and Rite Aid, said it decided to offer Apple Pay to give its customers more options.

"It is ultimately about providing the choice to customers because no one really knows how this space will evolve," said Deepika Pandey, head of digital marketing at the pharmacy
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