Pak student gets $5000 reward from PayPal

(PakistaniGoodNews.blogspot.com) ISLAMABAD: Rafay Baloch, an independent security researcher from Karachi, has been rewarded $5,000 for reporting a remote command execution bug in PayPal's website. According to details, PayPal had announced this reward initiative for those researchers who would report about the existence of a bug and its subsequent remote command execution, Technology Times Reported. Rafay Baloch explained that the bug he reported was very critical in nature and carried a high amount of risk to PayPal as an attacker could have easily managed to execute any command on the server and manipulate the data at will. According to him, PayPal has recently offered him a job. However, he has not yet taken a decision mainly due to his continued studies. http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/general-news/97795-pak-student-gets-5000-reward-from-paypal.html : PayPal-006

KVTC holds pioneering “Right to Work” Conference

(PakistaniGoodNews.blogspot.com) For Mumtaz Rafiq, who is one such child, enrolling at the Karachi Vocational Training Centre KVTC 14 years ago was a life-changing decision. After two years of culinary training, he got a job at a fast-food chain and now earns Rs14,000 a month. The centre, located in Phase IV, DHA, focuses on providing vocational training to people with cognitive disabilities. "It started off with a promise – to aim for something greater than the simple rehabilitation of totally neglected members of society. Slowly, people with similar goals started joining the initiative," said Imran Sohail, who is a speech therapy specialist at the centre and develops the curriculum for children with cognitive disabilities. "We shattered the myth that children with cognitive disabilities cannot learn, hold jobs, earn livelihoods and live independently." http://tribune.com.pk/story/512453/training-centre-helps-people-with-cognitive-disabilities-prove-they-can-hold-jobs-too/ : 2013-02-15-371