Posted 07/04/08 at 11:34:42 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Yahoo has been holding Hack Days since December, 2005 and is steadily increasing the frequency of such events besides taking them to different countries. If last year London and Bangalore played host to the event, it will be Taiwan’s turn in September, 2008. Hack Day participants have to make web apps within 24 hrs using Yahoo’s own homegrown API. Hackers don’t walk away empty-handed as there are various prizes for them. A splendid way of scouring for talent!

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Posted 07/02/08 at 11:42:33 AM by Paul Lilly

You wouldn't take a knife to a gun fight, and nor should you do battle with internet baddies using an unsecured browser. Yet despite what should seem obvious, a group of researchers found that surfers are doing just that, and hackers could be happier about it. During the study, the authors discovered a whopping 45 percent of users (roughly 637 million surfers) hopping online not using the most secure web browser version available, making them "an easy target for drive-by download attacks as they are potentially vulnerable to known exploits." And that data doesn't even include potentially vulnerable plug-ins.

But are users the ones to blame for putting themselves at risk? Ultimately yes, however the researchers made comparisons to the food industry arguing that browsers should display an expiration date, such as "145 days expired, 3 updates missed." Nom nom nom.

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Posted 10/15/07 at 04:54:55 PM by Mark Soper

Been patting yourself on the back for not using Adobe Acrobat or Reader with IE7 and Windows XP? Don't be too happy: URI-based threats may be lurking everywhere.

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vista, windows, Security, virus, malware, linux, XP, threat, MacOS X, hacker