Q1 2010 Web Browser Comparative Test: Socially-Engineered Malware

This report contains empirically-validated evidence gathered during 18 days of 24 x 7 testing, performed every six hours, over 74 discrete test runs, each one adding fresh new malware URLs. Each product was updated to the most current version available at the time testing began, and allowed access to the live Internet.

A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine websites, including Google, Yahoo and Hotmail for allegedly posting blasphemous material, though officials on Wednesday said they had not received any such instructions.

Open Hack India is back and we’re excited to see what creative hacks the vibrant Indian developer community can come up with

This is the 13th Yahoo Open Hack event we’ve hosted globally and will be the 3rd one in Bengaluru. We will have all the old favourites you have come to expect from an Open Hack event, but we also plan to shake things up a little with more content and some surprises. Watch this space for more…

About the awards

The Pwnie Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community.

The awards are given out once an year. The fourth annual ceremony will take place on July 29th, 2010 in Las Vegas at the BlackHat USA security conference.

Award categories

In 2010 there will be nine award categories:

    * Pwnie for Best Server-Side Bug
    * Pwnie for Best Client-Side Bug
    * Pwnie for Mass 0wnage
    * Pwnie for Most Innovative Research
    * Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response
    * Pwnie for Most Overhyped Bug
    * Pwnie for Best Song
    * Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL
    * Pwnie for Lifetime Achievement

You are about to embark on a different type of CTF. The Social Engineering CTF will test your abilities and stretch your limits as a social engineer.

Yahoo and Facebook are to tie their services closer together.

The tie-up means people with a presence on both sites can have updates to one service mirrored to the other.

It also means that it will get easier for users of Yahoo's other services, such as Flickr, to share what they do with friends on Facebook.

VirtualStudy Conference 2010 is the first edition of the virtual, worldwide conference, meant for the widely understood circle of fans and IT specialists. The Conference was created to enable the exchange of the technical expert knowledge and help IT professionals increase their professional skills. An editorial staff of the VirtualStudy.pl and the best IT specialists, cooperating with the portal are organizers of the conference. You can participate in the event for free, thanks to the LiveMeeting client. It only takes 2 minutes to register and then enjoy the best e-conference sessions on Saturday, 19th of June 2010.

VirtualStudy.pl it is a portal for everyone which feel a thirst for knowledge, they want to learn something new, to broaden ones horizons, but also for the ones which want to share this knowledge, sitting comfortably at home, in the favorite armchair, with your slippers on and with mug of coffee in hand.

Microsoft publicly defended Windows in the face of unconfirmed reports that Google was shunning the operating system due to security concerns.

Google declined to respond to an AFP inquiry, saying only: "As a rule, we don't comment on operational matters."

Microsoft, however, felt that stories published in the Financial Times and elsewhere warranted a fast, firm rebuttal.