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Mac360 | Apple • Mac • iPhone • iPad • News. Webby Nominees. Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. See them all here. Webby Lifetime Achievement: Mayor Michael Bloomberg Webby Person of the Year: Louis C.K. Webby Artist of the Year: Björk Best Actresses of the Year: Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard of "Sh*t Girls Say" Webby Breakout of the Year: Instagram Webby Agency of the Year: BBH With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees.

Jump to category: back to top. Welcome to the Webby Awards. The Tin Shed. Media Research Center. Media Matters for America. Popular iOS e-mail app acquired by Dropbox has serious bug, researcher warns (Updated) An e-mail app recently acquired by Dropbox contains a security bug that opens iPhone and iPad users to a series of potentially serious attacks, a security researcher warned. In a blog post published Wednesday, Michele Spagnuolo of Italy said that Mailbox for iOS will execute any JavaScript code embedded in the body of an HTML-formatted e-mail.

A video shows how the bug can be exploited to open iOS apps without user prompting, simply by viewing a booby-trapped message. His post said the damage could be much more severe. "This is bad for security and privacy, because it allows advanced spam techniques, tracking of user actions, hijacking the user by just opening an e-mail, and, using an [exploitation] framework, potentially much worse things," Spagnuolo wrote. In the past, the researcher has been credited with finding security vulnerabilities in Google, eBay and Nokia products or services. Neither the representatives nor Spagnuolo said which versions of the app are affected. Espn : Aaron Murray and the Dawgs...