Mozilla’s BrowserID provides a safer and easier way to sign in into any web site that supports BrowserID. Just confirm your email addresses once and then you can sign into any web site.
BrowserID Features
An email is an identity – There are no usernames in BrowserID
Decentralized – A user’s authentication to a website occurs in relative isolation. No network transactions with third parties are needed.
Ownership-Based Authentication
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According to NSS Labs latest Web Browser Group Test Socially-Engineered Malware Europe Q2 2011 report IE 9 blocked 92% of the live threats with smartscreen URL reputation and with 8% of application reputation. Internet Explorer 8 blocked 90 percent of malware.Safari 5, Chrome 10, and Firefox 4, each blocking just 13 percent and Opera 11 blocking just 5 percent of malware.
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Microsoft has registered microsoft-sony.com and sony-microsoft.com domains.Maybe this is a domain protection process or some type of Windows Phone partnership with Sony Ericsson in future. To check the whois information click the below two links.
microsoft-sony.com
Hotmail introduce a new feature called My friend’s account was hacked!. It lets you report your friend’s account as compromised.When you get spam messages continuously from your friend, and if you think that this email isn’t really from your friend, it’s from a spammer who has hijacked your friend’s account just click “My friend’s been hacked!” on the “Mark as” menu in Hotmail.
Microsoft will soon be changing its password policy, to increase security of hotmail. Now creating a new Hotmail account or changing the password of an existing account won’t be able to use common passwords. Having a common password makes your account vulnerable to brute force “dictionary” attacks. Common passwords are like “password”,“123456”,”ilovecats”,”gogiants.”
BillGuard is a 100% free personal finance security service and it scans credit cards and debit card daily, alerts you to unwanted and unauthorized transactions like hidden fees, billing errors, forgotten subscriptions, scams and fraud. Transaction is analyzed by over 100 automated tests.Just register your card its free.
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Adobe Flash 11 beta is now available for download. What’s new in Adobe Flash 11 beta?
The availability of 64-bit builds for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
the new Stage3D APIs
improved JSON handling and some technical improvements
hardware-accelerated 3D rendering capabilities in the same vein as WebGL
support for H.264 encoding of real-time video streams
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Bitdefender Antispam is a wordpress plugin from Bitdefender to prevent comment spam.
Main features
Antispam
Antiphishing
Antimalware
1.Download Bitdefender Antispam wordpress plugin. Download link.
2. Unzip and upload it to your WordPress wp-content/plugins directory.
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Wordpress 3.2.1 is now available for download. What’s new in wordpress 3.2.1?
Wordpress 3.2.1 is a maintenance release.
It fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON.
Some fixes in the new dashboard design and the Twenty Eleven theme.
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Mozilla firefox 5.0.1 is now available for download. What’s new in Mozilla firefox 5.0.1?
Fixed an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that could cause Firefox to crash
Fixed an issue caused by Apple’s “Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5” where the Java plugin would not be loaded
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