Monthly Archives: July 2011

Facebook Offers $500 Bounty for Reporting Bugs: Why So Cheap?

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

Facebook is offering a $500 reward for reporting bugs on its site, far less than bug bounties offered by companies like Google or Microsoft. To show our appreciation for our security researchers, we offer a monetary bounty for certain qualifying security bugs,” Facebook wrote on a page entitled “Security Bug Bounty.” To qualify for the bounty, you must be the … Continue reading →

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Doctors group says hot dogs as dangerous as cigarettes

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

Instead of grouping hot dogs with Mom and apple pie, a national medical group wants you to consider them as bad for your health as cigarettes. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C., group that promotes preventive medicine and a vegan diet, unveiled a billboard Monday near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the advisory: “Warning: Hot dogs can … Continue reading →

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Are Internet Explorer users dumb?

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

Are users of other Web browsers smarter than the people who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? A new survey doesn’t quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it. The survey by AptiQuant, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test. The result? Internet Explorer … Continue reading →

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Android Leaves Apple iOS In The Dust

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

Google’s smartphone software pulls away from Apple iPhone platform in mobile OS market share race. Google Android is now well ahead of Apple’s iOS for iPhone in the race for market share in mobile operating systems, new data released Thursday showed. Android’s total U.S. share for June came in at 39%, compared to 28% for Apple, according to data compiled … Continue reading →

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Growing List of Security Threats to Mac OS X Lion

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Long gone are the days when Apple lovers could take pride in their virus-free Macs while snickering at PC owners’ constant worries about security. Apple’s brand new Mac OS X Lion operating system is already acquiring an unhealthy list of reported vulnerabilities less than a week after its official release. Some Lion vulnerabilities are carry-overs from Snow Leopard, like the … Continue reading →

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