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How to Improve the Web

Illustration: Diego AguirreA handful of Web heavyweights offered tips for businesses and Web designers trying to entice customers to their sites, along with offering their visions of the next big opportunities online, at the closing of the Webstock 2009 conference.

The line-up included Tom Coates from Yahoo Brickhouse, science fiction author and internet critic Bruce Sterling and Damian Conway, known as "the mad scientist of Perl." The five-day event in Wellington, New Zealand ran from February 16 through 20.

Social Networking Picked as Cybercrime Threat

Cybercrime is likely to move into the social networking world, taking advantage of sites such as Facebook and MySpace, says cyber-security guru Peter Gutmann.

"I would assume internet crime will migrate to social networking sites in the future," says Gutmann, who also develops encryption toolkits and researches the usability of security software.

Security Researcher Warns of Vista Vulnerabilities

A New Zealand security researcher is exploring several scenarios in which Windows Vista could be attacked and warns more protection is needed for users.

Ben Hawkes presented his findings at the Black Hat conference, held in Las Vegas this month, and will also present them at the Kiwicon conference, to be held in Wellington in the end of September.

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