SIRIM’s site has been exploited with malware. The compromised URL is “www.sirim.my/pop_event2.asp?id=685″. The URL when accessed downloads malicious software and infects the client PC. If I were you I would not access that link.

From what I know many Malaysian sites are still susceptible to cross side scripting and SQL injection attacks. Chances are this is what happened this time.

Google has already picked this up and is currently warning users about the threat. Google Advisory

Source: LowYat.net

This is the latest webcast from Google titled “Google Factory Tour of Search”. It’s centered around where Google currently is and where it plans to go in the near future. Google’s latest service Google Health is also introduced in the webcast.

Some of the topics I found especially interesting.

1. Universal search.
2. Enhanced image search.
   • Image recognition.
3. New cluster.
   • Finance news.
   • Visualizing finance news.
   • Global finance news.
4. Experimental search.
5. Google trends.
6. Google Map.
   • Street View (Freakin cool!!)
   • Local search
   • Live edits
7. Google Health
   • Open platform
8. QA session

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The first release candidate Firefox 3 is out. It’s mainly targeted at developers, bug testers and superusers.

Installed it yesterday and only managed to get 3 of my add-ons working but the performance improvement on the other hand was noticeable as promised.

Take it for a spin.

My Facebook page has become one giant ball of information. Cluttered and confusing with the increasing amount for new applications being shared and circulated. I’m quite sure I’m not alone on this.

Facebook has announced a makeover which is panned for roll out next month. The roll out will happen in stages. The goal is to un-clutter, simplify and organize the mountains for data being moved around over Facebook everyday amongst users.

Get a glimpse of what to expect and if you wish to receive regular updates become a fan of the Facebook previews product page.

Facebook has also made available an integration guide for developers over at it’s wiki.

Google joins the Social Network boom by introducing it’s latest work, Google Friend Connect. The basic idea behind the new service is to socialize any website looking to be socialized.

Google Friend Connect provides a platform for website owners to interact with their users through current social networks like Facebook, GTalk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo and the many other social networks available today.

OpenID,  OAuth,  OpenSocial,  Yahoo,  Myspace,  Google,  Facebook  data access  APIs and many others. There are so many social standards today and Google’s target to to simplify access to them through Google Friend Connect.

So what’s in it for you?

1. Chances are your social network friends will  be driving new traffic your way.
2. Connect to more people. Something like what MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog do.
3. Low learning curve. You get features in the past companies were willing to pay millions for free and best of you don’t need to be super computer savvy to enjoy the features.

The service is currently in preview release. If you are interested in taking Google Friend Connect for a spin, sign up for a preview here.

Source: Google