[H]ard|OCP [H]otDeals

Welcome to the Thursday edition of [H]ard|OCP [H]otDeals! It's not too late to get in on that deal offering $75 off a HIS Radeon 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo1GB or that deal on the ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe motherboard for $188.99 with free shipping. Those of you in need of a new processor should check out this exclusive deal on this Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 for $164.99. The deal on that 2GB OCZ Platinum PC6400 kit for $24.99 after rebate is still going as well. Remember to show your [H] pride by grabbing a RatPadz GS or RatPadz XT while they are still $5 off with free shipping (in North America).

Google Chrome ClickJacking Vulnerability

If you use Google’s Chrome browser you should know that a clickjacking vulnerability has been found. Google is currently working on a fix.

The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to clickjacking flaw. A clickjacked page tricks a user into performing undesired actions by clicking on a concealed link. attackers can trick users into performing actions which the users never intended to do and there is no way of tracing such actions later, as the user was genuinely authenticated on the other page.

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Facebook Friends With Your Boss?

Is it a good idea to be Facebook friends with your boss? Not sure? Thankfully for you, CNN is there tackling these tough questions and more!

Before you decide if you should be your superior's Facebook friend, you have to ask yourself why you would want to be online buddies. Is everyone else in your department connected online or are you going to be the only employee SuperPoking the boss?

Please tell me that did not just say “Superpoking the boss?”

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Motion Controlled MP3 Player

I really hate to admit this, but I am a sucker for gadgets like this motion controlled MP3 player. Obviously this isn’t for use while you are jogging, but it’d be a cool gift / novelty item. Thanks to Marcus P. for the link.

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Google Sets Up Online Broadband Testing Lab

Google has teamed up with two non-profit partners to set up a new broadband testing site. Unfortunately, the site seems to be under heavy load since it launched making it almost impossible to use right now.

The search engine company will provide 36 servers in 12 locations around the world, and will cover the bandwidth costs. Its partners are the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, and the PlanetLab Consortium, which runs network experiments for researchers but lacks the capacity for large-scale testing by consumers.

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Cybercrime Cost Firms $1 Trillion Globally

A new study says that cybercrime costs businesses around the world as much as $1 trillion. With a number like that, you’d think we’d be taking cybercrime more seriously.

The report, entitled "Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information" is due to be released Thursday at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It also finds that developing countries spend more money on protecting intellectual property than companies in Western countries.

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WD Announces Q2 Revenue of $1.8 Billion

Western Digital Corp. today reported revenue of $1.8 billion, on shipments of approximately 35.5 million units and net income of $14 million, or $0.06 per share, for its fiscal second quarter ended Dec. 26, 2008. The company's results include charges of $113 million associated with the restructuring plan announced on Dec. 17, 2008. Excluding the restructuring charges and the related tax benefit of $4 million, non-GAAP net income was $123 million or $0.55 per share.1

Intel Science Talent Search Finalists Announced

Forty high school seniors today were named Finalists for the Intel® Science Talent Search 2009, a program of the Society for Science & the Public. The competition is America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition. Finalists will travel to Washington, D.C. in March to compete for $530,000 in scholarships, with the top winner receiving a $100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation. Each Finalist will receive at least $5,000 in scholarships and a new laptop powered by an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor.

Spam Is Back with a Vengeance

Remember the joy you felt back in November after the huge crackdown on spam? Well, the party is over and the spammers are back at it in full force. Lovely.

"As spammers fill the void left by McColo, it's reasonable to anticipate a decreasing rate of growth as spam reaches November 2008 levels," wrote Amanda Kleha of the Google message-security team on the company's blog. "However, since the November levels weren't even the peak for the year, and since spammers appear to be quickly recovering, the question remains: Where will spam volume top out in 2009? Will it be near the November 2008 level? The April 2008 level? Or higher?"

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[H]ardware Round-Up II

Cooling

SilverStone Noble Breeze NB01 Notebook Cooler @ TestFreaks

ETC.

Converting MP3s to Audiobook Files for the iPhone @ tkArena

Motherboards

Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 Intel X48 Motherboard @ PCStats

Video

23 Page GeForce 285 and 295 GTX Analysis @ Driver Heaven

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2G GDDR3 @ HotHardware

Intel Adopts Shareholder Request for 'Say on Pay'

It looks as though Intel has decided to let shareholders vote on its executive-compensation policies. Shareholders will get to cast their non-binding “say on pay” votes at the next company shareholder meeting in May.

We are pleased that a leader in corporate governance like Intel has stepped forward and endorsed the Advisory Vote, putting it in place for this proxy season. Obtaining an Advisory Vote establishes a solid foundation for constructive dialogue with shareholders.

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NVIDIA Names Stanford's Bill Dally Chief Scientist, VP Of Research

NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department, will join the company as Chief Scientist and Vice President of NVIDIA Research. The company also announced that longtime Chief Scientist David Kirk has been appointed “NVIDIA Fellow.”